Big Frog Small Pond - Copy Writing and Design in Burton Upon Trent | Our business is making your business look the business!

Website Design

The Big Frog can design websites for small businesses and associations quite affordably, with prices starting at around £199. Every website will be content manageable by the owner, either by using WordPress (like this website you’re viewing now) or another 3rd party content management system. Website rentals are also available, whereby a small monthly fee with no commitment beyond an initial 3 month period is...

Power Point

I can produce super slick presentations to really WOW your audience! These presentations can be delivered to you in Powerpoint or Movie format with a soundtrack. The creation of a successful and impactive presentation involves timing, scripting, sourcing top-notch library images and sometimes editing a commercial voice over. I can create or source and collate all these elements, sound, images and textual content,...

Copy Writing Services

A picture might well be worth a thousand words, but seventeen words might be worth a new customer. See what I did there?! I can provide B2B web content or brochure copy, press releases, social media content or bid writing. I also produce user manuals for software or website help sections. One of my specialisms is business plans and the creation of Investor Memoranda; unfortunately, examples of these aren’t...

Photo Editing

My Photoshop manipulation service can be handy for individuals who might want amateur wedding pictures ‘polished up’, or equally for companies who have a requirement to change professionally produced or archive images for brochures or marketing. I pride myself that my Photoshop skills are quite advanced, so I can work quickly, thus keeping costs to a surprisingly affordable level. I can accept images...

Social Media

There’s no denying that Facebook and Twitter, amongst others, are the new rock’n'roll these days when it comes to a person’s business and / or website being easily found on the internet. I can create a Facebook Fan Page for those who aren’t clued up on how to do this, or link your existing website to Facebook, adding the little ‘F Like’ icon or however you would like it done. I...

Logo Creation

Creating a logo from scratch is one of the most difficult challenges that a designer can attempt. However, it’s a little bit like playing roulette, as sometimes a client can absolutely fall in love with the first concept the designer produces, sometimes it can take hour after hour of tweaking before the feel of the brand is just right. Take a look at some examples in the portfolio section. This is why I start...

What I Do

I'm very diverse!

I can provide great quality, affordable design, images and words to ensure that your business looks the business! No job is too small , whether it’s creating a Facebook Fan Page, an A5 Flyer for your Pizza takeaway or just a half-days photoshop work.

I’m proud to have worked with a variety of clients over the last 10 years, from writing press releases to testing 3rd party beta-release websites; I’ve even undertaken jobs as diverse as testing mobile phone vouchers in the field to setting up exhibition stands.

Who I Am

Lots of experience!

I’m Tom Hill. I qualified as a professional photographer in 1985. It didn’t take long for my photography clients to start asking for photos to display on the internet as opposed to traditional print and brochure output. As a result, in the early 1990′s I started learning about how websites worked.

As a result I started building basic websites in straightforward old HTML. I took a Master’s Degree in photography in 2000, where I discovered that I was a reasonably competent writer as well as a photographer.

As a result, I began to write search engine friendly content for websites as well as providing photographs. With the advent of WordPress, I began building sites from templates that were slicker-looking than the old fashioned HTML table structure. For a short time, before search engine optimisation became dependent more on social media than a website’s own content, I would offer a ‘Page 1 of Google or it’s free’ guarantee.

Unfortunately, that’s no longer possible but I do still have a very good idea of how search engines work and how to produce content that works well in search results.

How I Do It

With Panache!

My services are provided with a smile, with patience, with understanding, and always tempered with the tactful ability to advise clients if I feel that they’re asking to produce something that won’t make them look their best. If you want your website bright pink and green, you can have it that way, but I would probably advise you not to go down that route!

There’s just me, I answer my own phone, so there are no sing-song voiced receptionists making empty promises to pass on messages. I stick to deadlines and in 14 years, I haven’t let a client down yet!