Java Web Developer

WSI Yorkshire is looking to build its in-house development team and requires a Java Web Developer to work full time at our Holmfirth offices. The job would initially be for a 3 month period with the possibility of a longer term contract once this is up.

You working across multiple projects and would make technical decisions for the whole company.

You will liaise directly with our clients as well as the other members of the web development team to produce high quality websites and web applications using our in-house CMS or other open-source alternatives. It is therefore essential that you have excellent oral and written English communication skills as well as common sense and initiative! You need to be comfortable with all types of communication be it face to face, using the telephone or the internet. Listening skills, checking understanding and attention to detail are also key to this role.

You need to be able to work on your own as well as part of a team having the ability to organise your own work, accounting for changing schedules and priorities when the need arises.

We are looking for someone who is responsive to change and will make a positive contribution and commitment to a rapidly growing company.

We’re proud of our high standards, we only want a developer who shares our passion for the web and wants to give the best possible service to our clients.

Key Skills

Essential:

1. Skills in Java6, Servlets, JPA, SSL, Windows 2008, Tomcat6 and IIS
2. A general understanding of client-side coding with HTML5, CSS and Javascript
3. Experience working with and modifying content management systems
4. Experience building AJAX features and applications
5. Up-to-date knowledge of W3C compliance, accessibility and SEO issues

Desirable:

1. A good understanding of client-side coding with XHTML, CSS and Javascript
2. A good understanding of Apache, DNS and general web server management
3. Experience working with other development platforms e.g. PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails

WSI Yorkshire has this week taken over the operational management of 7 soft to broaden the search marketing services available to their clients.

WSI is a Full Service Digital Agency based in the North of England. WSI’s expertise includes digital marketing and mobile websites for medium, large and ambitious small companies alike.  WSI has delivered thousands of internet solutions and actively markets companies of all sizes through a process of search engine optimisation, paid search (Google Adwords) social media and email marketing. Read the rest of this entry »

Hello, I’m David and I’m one of the Designers at WSI Yorkshire. As each year passes, Smartphones and Tablets are being used more and more as an alternative to a Desktop PC or Laptop. Anyone who has tried to browse a website on one of these devices (especially some of the smaller ones) knows that the experience is somewhat hindered by a website being designed for a much larger screen. Menus designed for a precise mouse click become a usability nightmare when trying to use a touch screen, and in the case of dropdown menus using a hover state, become unusable all together. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently WSI Yorkshire entered in to a partnership with gShift labs in order to provide a greater level of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) reporting and analysis to our search marketing clients.

If you are an existing SEO client of WSI Yorkshire then you will no doubt be keenly aware of the importance placed on Social Media performance when it comes to achieving a strong search presence on Google. With our new reporting the influence Social Media can have on your search rankings will be easier to visualise and also analyse. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has announced that Youtube has reached the one billion viewers per month milestone. This is a twenty fold increase on the the 50 million viewers a month Youtube received when Google bought it for $1.76 billion in 2006, making Youtube another lucrative source of advertising revenue for Google. The one billion figure represents half of all people using the Internet.

These stats amply illustrate the importance of including Youtube in your social media marketing strategy. Setting up your own Youtube channel and embedding the videos on your website not only goes a long way to promoting yourself to potential customers but also has great SEO benefits.

Not only can you use Video be used to explain what you do and your unique selling points but client video testimonials can be a great way of building your credibility and instilling confidence into potential customers.

If you need help or advice on using a Youtube channel and video marketing, contact WSI here.

A survey conducted by Econsultancy and the Society of Digital Agencies has revealed that well over half of businesses are planning to increase their digital marketing budgets in the coming financial year, a majority at the expense of traditional marketing channels.

• 55% plan to increase their digital marketing budget overall
• 39% plan to increase their digital marketing budget at the expense of traditional channels
• 16% plan to increase their digital marketing budget and their overall marketing budget

The fact so so few companies are increasing their overall marketing budget, but so many are increasing their digital marketing budget shows that more and more companies are waking up to how much more cost effective digital marketing is to generate sales.

Not only is digital marketing more cost effective, it is more track-able. No other form of marketing can tell you so precisely how much revenue each pound of your budget has generated. We are increasingly seeing that companies that have been slow to move into the digital era are failing behind their competitors and even failing altogether, as with HMV.

WSI has been helping companies use the Internet effectively since the 1990′s, developing and executing digital marketing solutions that produce results.