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Mallard Cottage, Winchester (2001)

Friends requested that I design a site for their bed and breakfast, and the content, format and structure was originally taken from a leaflet already designed for the business.

  • The site was redesigned after a couple of years in order to look more fresh and professional, provide more information, and to allow customers an idea of when the accommodation was available for use.
  • I looked at several other Bed & Breakfast sites, and talked to Tricia about the information that she wished to see on the site, particularly looking to the kind of questions asked via e-mail to ensure that information is available on site.
  • A splash page with basic information, giving an indication of the look of the accommodation, and the awards that the Cottage has won, with carefully thought out meta-tags provided.

The site is structured into information about Mallard Cottage, the location of the Cottage, detail about the accommodation, the costs, contact details, general information about Winchester, a basic ‘current vacancies’, and a disclaimer.

  • I recommended jholt web site services to provide the live booking system. David & Tricia have now learnt how to keep the site updated for themselves, although I continue to provide answers, including on how to improve their search engine optimisation.

Visit Site: http://www.mallardcottage.co.uk/

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Lewis Partners (not live)

This site is designed on a small scale for the dairy and arable farm based in Norfolk run by my brother with my Dad.

  • The site is designed to be simple, with the possibility for growth as the key uses of the website are identified. The farm is heavily involved in Open Farm Sunday, and I have structured the site anticipating that visitors to this are the most likely audience.
  • Information expected to go onto the site is ‘who are Lewis Partners?’, what do they produce, where are they, links they have found useful, what is involved in a farming year, and how to contact them.
  • I have not yet been given the information to put on this site, so it has not yet gone live, but an illustration is given to give an idea of the design scope.

2010: Still hoping to persuade my brother to make use of the site info already available onto a WordPress site, easy for him to update then!

Meantime: Read about Open Farm Sunday, including a Press Pack report by my niece for Open Farm Sunday 2009 (a result of an exchange of “tweets” with @OpenFarmSunday), or watch a video by another of my brother’s (I have 4!).

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Toby Robinson Structural Engineering Design (2009)

toby-robinsonToby Robinson: Structural Engineering Design is a newly formed consultancy with big plans. The brief was to create a simple portfolio/services site to which Toby Robinson could direct potential clients. The site was built fairly quickly using newly-learnt CSS (taught by JBCreative) combined with Dreamweaver. As the site owner has a copy of Dreamweaver, instructions were left so that he could add content at his own pace.

Visit: http://www.tobyrobinson.co.uk

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Bookwells/P&G Wells (2005, 2008)

P&G Wells is a beautiful bookshop nestled in the streets of Winchester. The brief was to design a simple, static site encompassing the six different businesses affiliated with the site.

  • Time was short, so the initial design was produced quickly. Halfway through development of the site, I knew I’d got the job in Manchester, so passed the site over with instructions as to how to keep it updated, providing training as appropriate.
  • The colouring was chosen to work with current branded materials – with enough images to make it interesting, but without slowing the site down. The site was designed for functionality, fast download and good accessibility.
  • Separate (but similar) templates were built for each area of the business to allow flexibility within the site for different book reviews, etc.
  • The interactive order form was designed by jholt web site services.
  • 2009: We’ve adapted the site so that the information is up to date, and are in discussions re: the possibility of a WordPress based site!

Vist: http://www.bookwells.co.uk

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Winchester Holistics (since 2006)

After discussions and research, I designed and structured a friendly small business website. We wanted to keep the site simple as Tina had no desire to update it, and I couldn’t guarantee being available when the site needed updating.

I studied at other ‘holistic practitioner’ sites so that I could recommend to Tina the kind of content that would be worthwhile, and also took on board the ideas she already had for what it would contain.

On paper I outlined how I thought the site would work, and then we purchased a domain name and web-hosting space from 1&1, I designed the site using Dreamweaver and images purchased from iStockphoto, and the site went live. I recommended to Tina a number of things that she could do to promote the site offline.

Following discussions site with Tina, we renamed the company in 2008 (from Reflexive feet to Winchester Holistics) to reflect the wider range of treatments she offers, and the design of the new site can be seen here. We’re completing a rework of the material, as Tina focuses more on myfascial release than the hotstones.

Visit: http://www.winchester-holistics.co.uk

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