web design news
November
The Toyota Tsusho UK website has just gone live. Working closely with them over the past month or two, they are very pleased with the CMS solution I produced and, fully trained up as they are, are very confident of taking forward themselves with minimal input from me.
September
Lots of new web enquiries coming in now that the summer is over with at least one major new site in the early stages of development.
August
Really nice to have a break over the summer and get away with the family. I'm very glad to hear that the Midlands Camper Van Hire website has been very successful over the summer and that no less than Marks and Spencer have hired one of their camper vans so that Myleene Klass could tour the country to launch their new Indigo collection! Watch the video of Myleene and her camper van here.
June
As part of my role as web manager at the MLA, I've set up an MLA Twitter account and I'm using it as a web alert service for our followers. It's very successful and the number of followers is increasing each and every day. It's also driving lots of quality traffic to the website. Using the available tools on the website, its clear to see that we are really reaching our target audience with Twitter.
May
The new Museums, Libraries and Archives Council website is doing really well and is a big hit within the organisation and the sector at large. A big improvement on the old site.
March
Midlands Camper Van Hire has been launched.
February
New camper van hire website set to launch towards the end of the month/early March. Busy with all manner of stuff.
December
The new Museums, Libraries and Archives Council website launched this month. Only a month and a half into the new job and using Sitecore for the CMS. An interesting challenge. Will hopefull move the design forward a little more next year - didn't have much to do with the look and feel so far.
November
November saw me take up my new role as web manager at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), a government agency that delivers strategic leadership in that sector.
September
September has been another busy month. Early September saw the launch of JK Entertainment's tribute artist website. The site is a CMS driven with plenty of artist audio and imagery.
July
July saw the launch of the new City College Birmingham website. The previous site was in need of a re-design, so I took the opportunity to create something of which I am very proud. I wanted to incorporate a host of new features that would make the site more relevant to the web users of today.
As a result, I incorporated a lot of video and audio content, blogs and interactive Google maps. The design feels very fresh and contemporary yet, still adheres to strict web standards. Because this is an education based site, there is also a greta need for the site to be accessible and we have achieved this with a number of way to view the site - in addition to it being heavily standards based.
My latest website for London based photographer, Will Dolphin, has also gone live. His wedding photography site went live earlier in the year and now his other photography site has also gone live.
June
The 2008 LG Amsterdam Tournament site is now live. The teams featuring in this year's 10th year anniversary tournament are hosts, Ajax, defending champions, Arsenal, Italian giants, Inter Milan and Amsterdam Tournament debutantes, Sevilla. The tournament takes place on Friday 8 August and Saturday 9 August in Amsterdam.
May
Another launch this month, James Buck - Director of Photography wanted a web site to showcase his work across cinema, television, advertising and documentaries. Through the use of Flash video, I think we've achieved this really well.
May
Another couple of sites have now also gone live with a few more right about to.
Tonks & Firkin is a residential lettings company based in Worcestershire who wanted a fully-featured lettings website to take their business online. The site is a full CMS site incorporating a whole slew of estate agent functionality wit the potential to add more as time progresses.
The Feyenoord Jubilee Tournament website has also just gone live. This year's two-day pre-season jubilee tournament features Feyenoord, as the hosts, along with Celtic, Spurs and Borussia Dortmund.
April
What a busy start to the year! So many new projects at all stages of development including several new launches: Thermar Heating, a specialist supplier of renewable energy equipment. Gardeners World, a leading supplier of superior concrete, natural stone and all other hard landscaping products. An email campaign for a leading property developer. And a residential lettings site that is just about to go live.
And I also managed to fit in a two and a half week family trip to Japan.
February
A new site has launched this month. Will Dolphin is a wedding photographer, based in London, who wanted a redesign of his existing site.
January
First of all, Happy New year.
It was nice to take a bit of break over the past couple of weeks, but the new year has brought renewed vigour and already a number of new enquiries. Let's hope that this year is as successful as 2007.
All the best.
Andrew