Web Design

Your website is your face online, it's the front

of house staff, the salesperson, the name on your advertising

posters.

A website needs to be as personal and as descriptive

as anything else you use in your business. Everything from the

branding to the colours needs to be YOU, so that a person visiting

gets more than bare information, they get a feel for who you

are, how you work and what you do.

That's why we never use pre-existing "slot

in the logo" designs or ask you to pick from a selection

of templates. Every site will be designed bespoke from the ground

up and with your input.

Your brief can be as big or small as you like,

if you have a logo or corporate colours we'll use them, or we'll

get your thoughts on a base to begin from, then design something

that hopefully screams YOU at the customers. If you don't like

part of the design or want something changed? Away it goes...

we don't finish until you're satisfied with the end product.

Prices

Web design - £50 - Up to 20 pages plus a

free logo/branding.

Better than 1/2 price Blog design and integration

for the same domain with any web design. Get a blog seamlessly

integrated for £10.

-Designs do not include hosting and/or a URL,

contact us for details on these-

-All prices include support and small changes

for 12 months-

Blog Design

One of the best ways to keep content fresh and

communicate with your customers is via a blog. These are no

longer just online diaries, these are a way to give a steady

stream of information out via photos, videos and, best of all,

direct communication and posts from staff.

Customers love to know they're dealing with people,

often it's the personal touch that makes all the difference

when you're using a company and one blog with a good personable

employee or two tasked to keep it updated and reply to comments

isworth it's weight in gold.

These days blogging can also be kept consistant

with the rest of your website. With the ever increasing customisable

nature of blogs thanks to CSS and widgets a blog no longer needs

to feel like a separate entity.

We can brand and design a blog to look like just

another page of your static website, doing surgery on everything

down to even the bare bones of the blog to stop any jarring

as people move between the static pages and the refreshing ones.

For a website visitor it'll feel like they've never left your

site.

If you don't have a website and only want a blog

based site we can also do that, creating in blog static pages

to completment the updating content. The Frontierville Express

pages are an example of seamlessly merging static HTML pages

with multiple blogs to give an easily updated content rich website.

Prices

Blog Design from scratch - £40

Integrating a blog into your current design and

web furniture - £25

-All prices include guidance on how to use the

blog platform and support-

Website Revamp

You may already have a website, one that you designed

yourself or had designed, but feel it needs a little updating.

We can make simple changes such as change site colours or slot

in a new logo, plus update your branding.

We can also go a step further and add in extra

content, a few sparkles here, a few stars there, generally tidy

or jazz up your page in a variety of ways.

Obviously how little or how much we do is up to

you. Obviously if you want a full redesign you're better off

looking at one of our other packages, but this gives you a simple

"smoothover" service to restyle and revamp your site.

We'll talk with you at every step and only finish

when you're happy. Contact us for a free consultation on what

changes are possible and a quote based on the amount of work

that is required.

Prices

Prices begin at £15 and cap off at £50.

They're dependant on the amount of work needed. Contact us for

a simple quote.

Logo/Branding

There's a reason companies spend so much time

on logos and branding, we're programmed to look at images first

and foremost. Your logo is your first impression, and, if done

right, can say as much about your business as a paragraph of

well written copy.

Your logo needs to be personal, it needs to send

a message and it needs to define you in simple terms to the

average person, so that it's not just logo professionals who

think "well, that font shows speed..." but also that

it gives that impression to the people you REALLY want to impress,

your potential customers or followers.

All of our logos are created bespoke to your specifications

and you can give us as tight or as loose a brief as you want.

You also have complete control, we show you a logo and you're

not happy? Tell us why and we'll make changes, all inside your

one-off fee.

We can also take sections of that logo to create

branding opportunities elsewhere, as you can see on one of our

designs, Precious

Threads. We created a branding thread involving

the characters from the header, weaving them into advertising

and page furniture.

Prices

Logo - £20

Other web furniture and stationary design is available

including advertising banners and buttons online along with

templates for home print stationary - Prices start as low as

£5.

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Get the anti-venom ready for Rattleskane Canyon! Yes, just when we were all expecting to hear more details about the Oregon Trail it seems Zynga has other ideas on where to send us!

As has long been suspected it would appear that you visit Rattlesnake Canyon via the signpost on your homestead, the graphic and text will have changed just like the Oregon Trail...

You'll soon spot that Toto, we're not in Kansas any more! We believe you'll be welcomed and guided through the Canyon in the same way as Jack introduced you to the original homestead but we don't know if the grizzled one will be there again or if a new NPC will be introduced. Hank, Fanny, Bess etc are all left back at the original homestead so it could be that Jack is too, this is unconfirmed.

All coins, wood, food and inventory move across, a "derelict" cabin is provided straight off and in the screenshot you'll see that some animals and crops can be planted. From what we can tell there will only be limited crops available because of the different land type perhaps? The canyon's yellow background suggests a more arid environment than the fertile fields of the old homestead.

So far it appears that only tomatoes, potatoes, flax, corn, sunflowers, wheat and cotton survive from the old homestead and no trees, BUT the eagle eyed amongst you may well have spotted this:

Yes, it appears CACTUSES are now harvestable items, apparently in the same way as trees are now, so not disappearing and needing replanting. Whether they will still only be available as debris or a horseshoe purchase we really don't know. It appears the Markets vary depending on where you are so even if Cactuses are buyable, it doesn't mean that they'll be available on the homestead for coins.

There will also be a limited choice of animals it seems, with just goats, cows and oxen open for purchase but there is a suggestion of new animals including proper brown buffalo that begin in the same fashion as the injured animal but actually grow.

Because of changes to the game some varmints are also not in Rattlesnake Canyon, there are no Foxes or Coyotes, seemingly because there's no chickens, geese or turkeys (we've yet to discover if "disallowed" animals in your inventory can be placed, probably not) and there's no bears because there's no lumber trees growing (Wood can only be got as a resource from the original homestead although we believe thorns might grow in the canyon).

Groundhogs will still pop from crops but at a reduced rate. Obviously with the name of the place Rattlesnakes can also appear and apparently have been set to attack from more than just debris, they can also appear when harvesting crops and tending to animals. However, instead of the multi-clobber varmints they are on the homestead the bigger chance of them appearing is offset by them being a single-clobber varmint, in the same fashion as the Coyote.

It would appear that new missions are being brought out specifically for the Canyon, and each set of missions, Home and Canyon, will only appear down the left hand side of the specific location:

As you can see, the missions so far seem to be introducing the new harvestable Cactuses and requiring the planting of wheat, possibly a plotline about setting up camp and making sure the new area has food? As it stands we don't have specific details on these missions but we'll try to bring them to you ASAP.

Apparently the new Missions window will show missions from both Homesteads (we're not sure if the mission numbers are specifically coloured blue for Home and yellow for the Canyon or if this is just random). It seems though that nothing you do on a different stead will count towards the other, so harvesting wheat at Home won't count towards the mission on the Canyon.

As you can see, it appears that any mission from Home will have a return button under it to take you back to your original homestead.

So, limited market items, a change in varmints and being able to harvest debris! Although I'm not sure it'll be worth the many bites I think we're going to get... (anyone else spot the bit about "medical supplies", eh?)

KT

http://www.frontiervilleexpress.co.uk/ktvid.wmv

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EXCLUSIVE - NEW COSTUMES!

As you know, we recently brought you the new mission thread to hit Frontierville, the Amy's Gettin' Some missions.

Well, more information has now been released and I can confirm three, yes THREE new outfits for your avatar as you complete the missions. Just as with previous special events these will each unlock as you complete missions I, II and III to be used in the next mission...

MISSION I - Reward:. Amy's Date Outfit

MISSION II - Reward: Amy's Cowgirl Outfit

MISSION III - Reward: Amy's ███████ Outfit