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Reviews & Testimonials

I had never set up a website before, but I knew that I needed a web presence to be the cornerstone of my business.

Working with 123Live was painless, quick and the results were beyond my realistic expectations. Now the site is live and people are massively complimentary about it. Many think was much more expensive than it was and I now have more confidence to go and market my business.

Thank you!

Charlie Clare - Managing Director - www.castinghouse.co.uk

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123Live was introduced to me by my husband's company who used 123Live to set up their company website.

I was sceptical of using the products when I discovered that I would not only have to input information onto my own website, but would also be put through a training session to be able to do this. I find computers cumbersome and a necessary evil. The less time I spend in front of one the better!

I did eventually decide to use 123Live because I found their prices competitive. To my surprise, the training lasted only 30 minutes and despite being given a vast amount of knowledge, the training was both logical and easy to follow. The program is simple and people-friendly.

123Live has given me the tools to manage my own website and I would happily recommend them to potential users.

Anna Boden - Proprietor - www.hamiltongrove.co.uk

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Your team were fantastic and it's been a stress free process from start to finish. A big well done to all involved.

Ben Hawkes - Sales Director - www.WelshGlobalSales.co.uk

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Just a quick note to say we are absolutely delighted with the website you have created for us.

Building it has been a breeze. People with no technical experience here have gone on to understand how to upload video, create tables online and all sorts of whizzy things.

It''s just so easy and takes all of the headache out of building and maintaining a website. We also love the way we can change the content at the drop of a hat, without any complicated and time-consuming procedures.

Thanks for responding so quickly and being so helpful in handling our enquiries during the initial set-up of the site too.

Best wishes

Jane Shepherd - www.shepherd-pr.com

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It's nice to come across a company so very much like ourselves in terms of customer service.

Janet Stimson - Director - www.crete-escapes.com

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I am not a computer "bod", but still find the site very easy to update and administer.

Search Engine feedback and data is good and at present meets all my requirements (although I am probably quite limited in what I require!). Easy to access and easy to read and digest.

The site is quick and easy to use as a parent/visitor and we have had positive feedback - but most of it has been in connection with the up-to-date factor of the website ... .

Tessa Foulds - Marketing Manager - www.ranbyhouseschool.co.uk

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Really pleased with our website & getting plenty of enquiries from it!

Nicki Hawes - www.bigwipes.com

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123 live is great, simple to use!

Natasha Woodruff - www.ochresoft.com

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123live.co.uk have done a brilliant job with my website Talk to the Press, aimed at helping individuals who want to sell a story to the national press. The design was just what I wanted and the site went live really quickly.

I was really worried about using the CMS at first, but it is really easy and simple to use - anyone would be able to use it without any stress. I now update my website all the time and it's so much easier than contacting a web master and telling them what changes need to be made. Richard is always very helpful when I phone up with questions too, e.g., when I wanted an additional email he had added it to my account within a few seconds. Thanks 123live!

Natasha Courtenay-Smith - www.talktothepress.co.uk

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I have found the service from 123live very efficient, friendly and always willing to help when needed. The actual web site was extremely easy to use and adjust by adding content through the online back office. What is most impressive is the way that changes can be made to the site and uploaded to the web within minutes of deciding to make a change.

The problem with most web sites is that they are basically static, once on the web making changes is slow and time consuming (and can be costly). Using 123live a web site could easily be changed and updated daily, if needed, and this can be done by anyone, even without web site experience.

Thanks

Paul Geoghegan - www.sportron.co.uk

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There a moments in one's life when you discover something that has to be shared with others. I have discovered the most marvellous self Content Managed System for building a company website. Let me explain.

Our website was awful but over the years I could never afford the thousands it takes to build one and, more importantly, the continuing thousands it takes to have changes made. A while ago, I was offered a CMS system starting at £3k!

By accident, I found 123Live and was curious enough to watch their demo and suddenly it sold itself especially as they charge £600 to get you set up and running. I have now built a new website of some 50/60 pages showing 150 products with downloadable drawings and photos using our existing resources and I did this in five days! I don't know an HTML from HGV but this method is so friendly that it put the job within an ordinary person?s (me) grasp. AND the best bit is that after you make a change, just press 'Publish' and there it is where Google can find it ? superb.

The significance is, that for an affordable pittance, every SME, however small, can have an extremely posh looking website and having this available to the masses is great. It can become a fundamental part of your capabilities when facing a client. Give it go. And I will add, I get nothing out of telling you this, I just think it marvellous and needs to be passed on

Dave Goyder - Managing Director - www.grpstructures.com

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The experience I have had with the team at 123Live has been excellent, from both the customer service and technology aspects. I initially had a short list of website design companies but it quickly became apparent that 123Live understood my business and requirements over and above the other companies.

The technology is fantastic, and the quality of training has meant that it is so easy to use. Many thanks for the great service.

Carly Parker - Managing Director - www.parker-recruitment.com

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I can honestly say that 123live's content management facilities are the most powerful and easiest to use that I have ever come across (that's why I use them for my own site). In minutes I can add new pages and images, looking just as I want them. Change the navigation? No problem. They also have a marvellous way of charging for their services, which means very little up-front costs.

I have no qualms giving them my strongest personal recommendation.

Len Smith - www.copywriting-on-demand.com

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Hi Tony,

It was with a certain amount of dread that I began the DWD adventure, as the thought of setting up e-mails and a website seemed like issues well beyond my capabilities.

When it came to the website, I approached several companies, gradually increasing my budget from £500 to £1000 in the hope that I could tempt someone to assist me. No one seemed seriously interested unless I had £3000 to spend (I didn't) until the FSB recommended you.

To cut to the chase, I just wanted to thank you (and Richard) for all your help in assisting me in getting over one of the major hurdles I have so far experienced with going it alone. You have made life a lot easier and the website development is a pleasure to work with.

Once again, many thanks and make sure you pass on my thanks to Richard.

David Withers - www.dwdisplay.com

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I cannot believe just how easy it is to manage our 150 page website now. I was astonished to "get" the 123Live content management system within 10 minutes!

Becca Catt - Ex-Technophobe & Website Editor - www.nanny-nanny.co.uk

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I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for your help, guidance and speed of response when it came to getting the video testimonials on our website. We are delighted with the results!

Peter Czapp - Managing Director
- www.thewowcompany.com

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123Live provides a very quick and easy method to make changes to a site - it is also updateable anywhere in the world where there is access to the web.

I opted to build the site from scratch rather then trying to get the existing site converted. I built 75 pages in 3 days which shows what an easy process it was. We now have over 135 pages and more are added daily. Coupled to this is the complete control over the navigation through the menu system. There are only three things that are important to any site - navigation, navigation and navigation!

123Live does make it very easy to upload and resize pictures - also the quality of the pictures seem to be very much better than the traditional pre-compressing method.

I am very much a 123Live fan - it is almost a pleasure being a webmaster!

John Teather - Marketing Manager - www.durlstoncourt.co.uk

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Congratulations on a terrific website system. I have just had to remove a series of pages and the system guided me to remove every link before allowing me finally to remove the main feature. Absolutely no hassle, no endless proof-reading every page, efficient, and a pleasure to use.

Brenda - www.come-alive.co.uk

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I wanted to let you know, now that the Dreadnought site has been up running for a couple of weeks, how pleased we are with the site and your system.

The system is easy to use and understand but more importantly we really appreciated your responsiveness and also your feedback and suggestions which were usually prefaced by the phrase "may I be blunt?..!".

Dreadnought and their clients are very pleased with the ease of use of the site and the overall look and feel. Can you please pass on our thanks to your designer. I look forward to working with you again on future projects.

Alex Patrick-Smith - www.dreadnought-tiles.co.uk

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123Live has proved so search-engine-friendly that our website consistently comes top or at least on the first page of google on all our most important search terms - such as ethical company and ethical shopping.

Will Sankey - www.ethical-company-organisation.org

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I would like to thank you for your support in getting our new website up and running. I have tried a number of different companies including 1and1 internet, homestead and 2 minute website but none of them come anywhere close to 123live. I have spent the last 18 months tinkering and testing different optimization techniques with the others and have only ever succeeded in high rankings with MSN and Yahoo. However in just 4 weeks of using 123live, I have several top 5 pages on Google. It has made such a huge difference in the amount of business I have been generating from the web that I am increasing the size of the site to take advantage of the new found marketplace.

Please give my thanks to Tony for developing such a wonderful product, and thank you Natasha for your help.

Kind Regards

Dean Owen - www.otravel-holidays.co.uk

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Its been 6 months since asking Tony and his team to set up our web site. The original setup was inexpensive, quick and above all for a computer shy company as we are, easy.

After living in fear of how we were going to get a web site up and running, phoning 123live was probably the most productive phone call of 2005. In the six months we have established new customers both in the UK and overseas, and already have generated at least £250,000 of new business.

Thank you.

Julian Payne - www.shellplant.co.uk

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For a novice at Websites, you gave us excellent advice on cost, expectations, back up help and are always at the end of the telephone for help when things went wrong. Mainly my computer.

The website looks fantastic and I hope to put some photos and updates on it over the next couple of weeks. You were always very patient with us and took time to explain everything.

I look forward to continuing success.

Carolle Kay - www.zodiacgymnastics.org.uk

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Have recommended you to [...]. Hope that they get in touch with you.

Can't thank you enough for your help in setting up our site. Absolutely excellent service and help, that's without the website builder itself. Fantastic tool for those of us terrified by the idea of being left to fend for ourselves. You have made it all so easy. I can't believe my luck in finding you when I needed help and that's certainly what I got.

Once again many thanks.

Laura - www.detecnicks.co.uk

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Hi Tony,

First of all I would like to say just how pleased I am with what we have got with you so far - I was in raptures all day yesterday as I built the structure of the site so far, so thanks a lot! ...

Thanks

Dan

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I just thought I would drop you a line prior to sending off our remittance for your recent work on our video project.

We find our relationship with 123Live to be a consistently positive experience, in contrast to suppliers of other IT services whose support can be patchy at best!!

We are extremely pleased with your recent work on our video project; the quality of the end result is excellent and we believe that with a good PR campaign to promote it, it will enhance the reputation of our company in the golf travel market no end!

The work that you do for us is always delivered on time and at the quoted price and the quality of work and support we receive from you guys is always first class.

Do let us know if you have any prospective clients who are "dithering" on a decision to work with you as we will always be more than happy to provide glowing references.

Many thanks once again.

Kind regards

Dan Thomson - www.golfdelaluz.com

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Hi Tony,

Just wanted to say thanks for all your help, advice and great design work that got our website off the ground. We found the search engine tips really useful and your flexibility has meant we can adapt as our business changes. We'll certainly recommend your services!

Helen Brown - www.chalets-usa.co.uk

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Hi Tony,

We have found you excellent to work with and the website is simplicity itself to update. I would recommend you to anyone.

Cheers

Stephen - www.football-jewellery.co.uk

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As you are aware our website is up and running. I have just quickly edited it and found it really easy to use, even for me.

Thank you very much indeed. I am extremely pleased with the ease and efficiency with which the website has been set up. If you need a reference or recommendation please let me know.

Sally Hawke - www.sallyhawkerecruitment.co.uk

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Keep up the good work!

Robin Millar - www.millarconsulting.com

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It is nice to see that you are constantly evolving and updating the features of the website editor system. It is most definitely the easiest to use system we have tried!

Best regards

Chris French

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Many thanks for all your help to date, without it we would still not have a website yet!! For a complete novice to be able to manage a website that many people are highly impressed with, would have taken a miracle without your always available assistance!

We would recommend your services to anybody looking to create a website of their own.

Keep up the great work. Thanks again for all your help!

Chris French - www.neatcards.biz

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You know the saying 'the squeaky wheel gets the oil'. Well the problem with that is that well oiled wheels don't get the attention and your web site system works so smoothly that fact might not get sufficiently recognised.

So I wanted to say 'thank you' you have made one part of my life effortless.

David Mills - www.enmore.org

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Having spent many thousands in the past on developing websites for various companies, 123Live has proven to be the most cost effective and user friendly website I have found available today. I would recommend this site to any small or medium size business. It allows us to update the site in minutes without cost to keep our industry up to date with the rapid changes in legislation on CRC, DEC, EPC and compulsory Air Conditioning Reports by the UK and European Parliament.

Vic Harrison

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What incredibly idiot proof web building software. You can create your own stunning website without the pain of expensive web designers who want £25 just to do what a click of a button can do on 123live. Stunning - just stunning.

(P.S. I am now their web expert)

Mark Gater - Minex Plant Services Ltd

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I'd like to say how please we are with the two websites that we have procured through you. We regularly get comments on the site from clients and with its flexibility and ease of access it is a winner on all fronts for us.

Russell Smith

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Thank you all at 123live for your service. From the 1st call to a live e-commerce site in less than a month! The CMS is very easy to understand and the entire 123live experience is certainly recommended by us.

Paul & Alison Brooks

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123Live have given me the ability to create, update, write about, sell and manage my entire business. I can make my online store look the way I want it to look. I can track keywords and online searches. If ever I think it cant be done the CMS shows me that it can. Wonderful stuff. This is the best use of my business money so far.

Thanks so much.

Cherry

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We just wanted to offer our thanks to your whole team for producing our website. We are very impressed with your product, the service you provide and the proffesional standards of your customer service. We could not be happier with the end result of our site and look forward to a long working relationship.

We would have no hesitation in recommending your company to anyone else and indeed have done so already. Please pass on a special thank you to the graphic designer who worked on our site. It is not very often these days that you find a company that does everything it says it does and with a little bit extra thrown in as well.

Thanks again

Gary McConnell

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I have seen average visitors leap from around 15 a day to almost 40. We had 87 web site enquiries last month of which 68 have taken matters further. This has exceeded our expectations.

Andy Fletcher

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I've been suggesting 123Live to anyone I discuss websites with, as it really does take the bewildering and unknown elements out of website hosting and design with excellent, simplistic results.

Sam Drury

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I am really getting to grips with the system already and have found it immensely gratifying to be able to understand a system like this so quickly. Does everyone find it so?

Experimenting is fun and your site system allows this so easily that it is great for a creative person like me to be able to change my mind a lot and do new stuff so easily (you can quote me on that!).

Dr Sonia Hutton-Taylor

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We have no hesitation in wholeheartedly endorsing 123 Live as a website designer and provider. The only problem we had was the eleven months it took to find them! It's frustrating knowing what you want but being told you can't have it.

"We'll set you up with a stunning website of six pages and it'll only cost you £2000" was the frequent answer.

"How do we make changes or include up-to-date news?"

"Oh, we'll do that, it won't cost that much or take too long"

The 123Live provided website is simple to use, so much so that expanding and updating your website can become addictive.

The 123Live team also give fast and efficient response to any of your queries. They also have the ability to operate your computer remotely to give you on-screen help.

All-in-all the service epitomises what we had been searching for. Well done.

Thanks

Jonathan Ford-Dunn

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