Ready for Websites Plenty in 2020

It’s been a while since I’ve done any major update to the Forward Multimedia website. For the first time I actually took time off to focus on it exclusively, which I did over the holidays. Two weeks into 2020 I’m now at a point where I feel it’s at a state of readiness to go back live.

This time I’ve made some major changes after taking a long, hard look at my site’s performance with a view to drastically improve. I’ve totally discarded many pages and and rewrote many from the ground up. Others I’ve freshened up and updated with current content. And for the Piece of the Resistance, I added two new services: Social Media Marketing and Video Production. But wait, there’s more! I expanded my team by force as I see the Two Sunami that’s coming in 2020. So much for remaining small and ’boutique’ eh?

Below is a hopefully comprehensive list of all the changes. I won’t go into detail for all. Note items 1-8 refer to the homepage.

Because I see where the current is taking website design and E-Commerce in Trinidad & Tobago this year and the next few years. For the first time ever, it’s actually going to be HUGE. What you’re seeing is Forward Multimedia positioning its chess pieces on the board.

And why give my competitors a heads up on what I’m doing? Because I don’t worry about what they’re doing, I concern myself with what I’m doing and try to do it to the best of my ability. I have my own phrase “I have my own axe to grind, and I grind it”. So here’s me grinding away.

1. Changed header layout, put logo on left and menu on right (kept mega menu)
2. Kept original logo but left out the slogan ‘building websites that work’
3. Added header background pattern
4. Replaced image slider with a video slider
5. Added a VERY COOL video showing my services!
6. Changed the slogan under slider to reflect my 10th year of business
7. Changed layout of featured services, updated graphics to use dark background
8. Changed layout of recent articles to add a 2-video showcase and a Recently Launched notice
9. Changed the layout of Portfolio to full width to highlight 2 categories: Websites & E-Commerce sites
10. Footer remained the same
11. Made minor adjustments to Founder, Company profile pages
12. Added an Our Team page for the first time
13. Scrapped many pages from Service menu item with now simplified services
14. Rewrote ALL of those pages under Services menu and updated design and layout
15. Added a cool pop-up form in the Business Websites page Contact Us call to action
16. Added a WordPress Maintenance price plan for the first time
17. Made price plan menu item comprehensive for all old and new services
18. Made price plans design uniform and colorful with nice cool touches: FAQs, Calls to action
19. Updated my Portfolio with all new completed sites as of end of 2019
20. Went through portfolio and disabled all non-working websites to keep only sites that you can actually visit
21. Updated Portfolio by Category to include more recent sites and adjusted categories
22. E-Commerce menu item rewrote or updated most all pages
23. Magento and WordPress platform, Wipay pages are written from ground up
24. Simplified Article menu item to just one, removed all category links from before

1. Changed hosting providers to a better, faster host
2. Updated Facebook profile pic to use video
3. Added my first video tutorial under series name ‘Forward Thinking’
4. Updated and started using my You Tube Channel
5. Enhanced my client support with a new feature making it easy to request site changes

That’s it. I’m going to keep the improvements coming as it’s not 100% yet as to delay going live would not be good for business. I’ve been getting messages from my maintenance page asking when I’m going to reopen!