{"id":19110,"date":"2018-07-12T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=19110"},"modified":"2018-07-12T11:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:30:25","slug":"website-month-june-2018-cycled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/website-month-june-2018-cycled\/","title":{"rendered":"Website of the Month June 2018 &#8211; Cycled!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pleased to announce the Website of the Month winner for June 2018 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cycled.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cycled<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cycled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Cycled home page\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19103\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This bespoke news and blog website features the coolest accessories and apparel in cycling, and understands its target audience.<\/p>\n<p>The site is designed to responsively work across both desktop and mobile, with the simple navigation easing the user journey and engaging imagery matched with equally impressive content.<\/p>\n<p>We sat down wth Ryan Nesbitt, site owner and founder of Cycled, for a chat about their website.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cycled-3.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of an article on apparel on the Cycled website\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19101\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>What is Cycled and what does it do?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a news site and blog bringing the coolest products and apparel in cycling to our audience.<\/p>\n<p><em>How does the website enhance, support, and drive forward your goals?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our fully responsive site enables us to deliver content on any device and through any social network.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cycled-5.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Accessories page on Cycled\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19097\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>What would you say the website&#8217;s personality is?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We think it&#8217;s stylish and professional.<\/p>\n<p><em>When you were designing the website, did you design with the customer in mind, or did you have a fixed idea on how you wanted to portray the brand?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We wanted the site to be a pleasurable experience for people to visit, so the content and imagery are always king.<\/p>\n<p>We often get comments from brands telling us how we are probably the best-looking news site in cycling.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cycled-2.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a list on the Cycled website\" width=\"650\" height=\"475\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19098\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s your favourite thing about the website?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The way we present the imagery and the choice of fonts on the site.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think makes the website different from the competition?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We tend to not go with too many mainstream products &#8211; we&#8217;re always looking for the cool up-and-coming brands and products you won&#8217;t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cycled-4.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of the reviews of a saddle in the Cycled website\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19106\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have any future plans for the site?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Certainly, and we have some big plans! We could tell you, but then we&#8217;d have to kill you.<\/p>\n<p><em>And how has your experience been as a Heart Internet customer?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Heart Internet has always been a supportive bunch, and will often sort problems for us that might not be &#8220;part of the contract&#8221;.  We&#8217;ve certainly never had any major reason to go elsewhere!<\/p>\n<p>We particularly like how Heart Internet appears to be listening to its customer&#8217;s support requirements, with first bringing live chat and now adding telephone support.  It ultimately allows us to solve technical issues quickly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cycled-6.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Fresh in Bike Tech section of Cycled\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19119\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Ryan, and congraulations on winning!<\/p>\n<p>If you think you have a site that can win Website of the Month, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heartinternet\/posts\/1941111435920625\" target=\"_blank\">enter through our Facebook post<\/a>!  Submit your site today and see if you have what it takes!<\/p>\n<p><small>Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/could-you-be-the-website-of-the-month\/\" target=\"_blank\">our previous post for further details, including terms and conditions.<\/a><\/small<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the Website of the Month winner for June 2018 is Cycled, a bespoke news site and blog that features the coolest products and apparel in cycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-website-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}