Great Restaurants in the UK

This is another of our website projects that runs parallel with our Great Days Out directory!

If you are looking for a great place to eat in or around the United Kingdom, you won’t be disappointed! The UK’s thriving restaurant scene offers something for everyone. From fine dining to pub food, Mediterranean cuisine to traditional English, Chinese to Indian and so much more. Whether you are on a tight budget or have lots to spend for a big party or celebration there is something for everyone in the UK. 

Below are a small sample of some of the businesses that we help promote! Find out more here : http://www.great-restaurants.co.uk/

“Great Restaurants in the UK” is one of a group of Eating Out Directories that Quoakle – the original graphical directory – has launched in the Gloucestershire region, including directories for Gloucester Restaurants and Cheltenham Restaurants.

Reciprocal Links through our Great Days Out directory

We are grateful to Acorn Farm and many other businesses like them who we advertise on our Great Days Out directory who have given their time to help promote us on their respective websites! You can see their advertising link here : http://www.great-days-out.co.uk/merseyside/

Below is an example of one our banners on their home page :

We also have a link of ours placed without one of our banners. Climbing Works have placed it on their Sponsors webpage located just above the Day Out with the Kids banner. See below :

We have dozens of businesses across the UK now who are promoting us with either just a link or with one of our banners. This helps our ranking on Google as we both benefit from the linkage.

Quoakle.com will be going through a transformation soon!

Yes, as the post suggests, Quoakle will be getting a new look soon. Over the years it has seen several changes and has been expanding ever since it first appeared on the internet way back in 2006! Since then, there has been a steady increase of businesses being advertised, as well as an expansion of the number of topics and categories on display. It is amazing to think that it has been going for 10 years now!

To bring the directory up-to-date we have taken on board a young man by the name of Tim Coysh who has been assisting us in updating the Quoakle website. We are excited to see what has been done already and we are all looking forward to showing off the new look once it has been completed! So, keep your ears to the ground. Watch this space!

Great Days Out Directory in the World's Top Two Million websites!

I can't believe how long ago it is that I lasted posted on Quoakle News... 5 months!

Well so much has been happening ...

• SEO for Australian Public Speaking Trainer, Sarah Meijer
• More Australian work for a company supplying and installing Artificial Grass.
• The first in a series of new websites and conversions of current websites to fully responsive designs - Books for Schools using the Buntington Theme
• Another Buntington conversion for the website of the Christian Independent School in Luton
• New websites for Ellis Sweeps and School Playground Markings

but the most development and growth has to be on Quoakle's UK Days Out Directory ... Great Days Out!

It was during Autumn 2013, that the Quoakle team began developing a graphical Days Out Directory for families – Great Days Out in the UK. The domain name, great-days-out.co.uk, was bought quite a while earlier. It was nearly discarded as not being needed but having missed the date to cancel the renewal, director, Nigel Steele, decided to give it a go!

The team drew on the valuable experience gained through the development of Quoakle.com, the local business directory. They used the same geographical structure, and in addition expanded the reach to include Scotland and Northern Ireland. Stephen Holdstock again played a major part in the design.

It is really since February 2015 that this website has begun to take off - particularly on bank holiday weekends and in school holidays. At the moment we are averaging 15,000 visits a month and we are anticipating a really successful summer! This growth is due mainly to a strong performance on Google's search engine. Hundreds of keyword phrases are bringing new users to Great Days Out every month e.g. try out Google for "Days out in the South West" or "Days out in the East Midlands".

Today we have the exciting news that www.great-days-out.co.uk  is in the top 2 million websites in the world - according to Alexa.com!

Today we are in position 1,976,949.

Quoakle gets a new look for 2015!

This is how you remember the Quoakle home page:

Now we are excited to be displaying the new look showing the different devices with which Quoakle can be found and used:

New website for RE Specialist, Roy Pitcher

Our latest project is for the widely experienced educator, Roy Pitcher. Roy is based in Alsager, the town where our director, Nigel, was brought up. Roy has been a school teacher, educator and trainer of teachers, author, consultant, inspector of schools and educational video producer over two generations at virtually all levels in the U.K. 


As a Christian teacher of religious education and pupils with special needs, he was concerned to find a basis for enhancing pupil attainment through multi-method approaches. When he became a teacher trainer he developed the concepts and practices that he describes in his new book "Jesus - a Master Teacher". Roy was soon to be launching his new book at the Christian Resources Exhibition in Manchester in October 2014, when he approached Nigel about helping him with a website.

Most of the content we were able to copy across from another site and place within the Quoakle "Mega Template" that Quoakle Web developer and designer, Stephen Holdstock, has created this year. New graphics were created and pages added such as useful links and a facility to help users purchase the book. Some of the content was re-organised to aid the user experience. 

The new website works well on all devices though is not responsive in the simplistic way that many sites now are. The JaMT website maintains the same website structure across all devices. 

To find out more about Roy Pitcher, please follow this link to Jesus - a Master Teacher.

Quoakle Websites Get A New Look

The Quoakle Team have been busy with all sorts of different projects for clients over the last few months and so have had little time for working on our own sites. However, last week Stephen began the upgrading process for a number of our own website templates.

First to receive the treatment was Community Pixels, a site that illustrates the breadth of our work, from Quoakle - the original graphical directory to Quoaklecards - the highly optimised one page website, and from Quoakle's Restaurant Directories to Churcham Website Design - the website that is a focus for our local, Gloucestershire clients.

The Community Pixels website now has a new deeper rotating banner on the home page (not shown). It also has an extending header and attractive mega footer with room for lots of important links. Quoakle's design team have gone for a smart grey for the mega footer with a bright, contemporary, light blue for the writing on the footer. As with all WordPress sites there are lots of options for sidebar or no sidebar and the use of widgets in various positions.

Next to receive a makeover was the actual Churcham Website Design website. Since 2008, Nigel and his small team have been developing websites for a number of clients in the village of Churcham as well as for clients in other parts of Gloucestershire. The Churcham Website Design site was launched to provide a local focus for the affordable and adaptable web solutions we are creating for local clients and local businesses of various sizes.

Stephen has now put this website into the same template as Community Pixels to give it a common look and feel. The mega footer and header use the same subtle and smart greys used on the new Community Pixels website. The overall look of these websites is now similar to Quoakle's Restaurant Directories, such as Swindon Restaurants and Hereford Restaurants and our popular UK Days Out directory - Great Days Out.

 Next is Quoaklecards ... still waiting for the upgrade.