Express Imaging is a well-known photographic specialist situated in Cardiff.
The project included a complete revamp of the existing flash website into a HTML5 responsive theme for the WordPress platform.
Design
WordPress HTML5 Theme
Responsive Twitter Bootstrap Framework
Mailchimp Intergration
Visit the site: expressimaging.co.uk
Woodward Lewis work with local authorities, central Government institutions and national businesses to deliver strategic and practical change.
The project involved working closely with Hoot Marketing to redesign the company website to reflect the new direction of the company in targeting both public and commercial sectors.
Design
WordPress HTML5 Theme
Responsive Twitter Bootstrap Framework
Mailchimp Intergration
Mailchimp Email Templates
Visit the site: www.woodward-lewis.co.uk
Nosco Management Solutions Ltd is a collaboration of experienced business owners and software designers principally involved in developing products to enhance systemisation and workflow management.
The project involved designing a website that would showcase and illustrate the software Nosco has developed to assist SME businesses with credit referencing and appraisal, consumer debt recovery and marketing systems and tools.
Design
WordPress HTML5 Theme
Responsive Twitter Bootstrap Framework
Mailchimp Intergration
Mailchimp Email Template
Visit the site: www.nosco-systems.com/loan-station
The Engine Room is an information hub for a chain of cash generation shops situated around the UK. The brief was to build a site for internal staff use, with a lightweight product catalogue solution, document library, forum and audit trail.
The site is password protected so – screenshot only.
Teamviewer is one of the best and simplest ways to train someone to use WordPress (or any other CMS) remotely. The client is just required to download the software e.g. the TeamViewer QuickSupport version (which runs immediately without installation), allowing you to share their screen and easily run through the features of their new site. When used with Skype provides excellent virtual one-to-one training.
Dragon Accounting Services are accountants based in Swansea.
I did quite a bit of research into accountancy sites before working on this project. The trend seemed to favour white backgrounds, bright colours and stock images. I wanted to move away from that so I went with a grey conservative feel, splashes of strong red to complement the logo and sourced a banner image that didn’t scream stock library. Built on WordPress and Twitter Bootstrap it’s SEO friendly and tablet/smartphone friendly.
Branding
Design
WordPress HTML5 Theme
Responsive Twitter Bootstrap Framework
Mailchimp Intergration
Mailchimp Email Templates
Visit the site: www.dragonaccounts.co.uk
Interesting to read in the news today that Chrome has overtaken Internet Explorer as the most widely used browser in the world.
I recently started using it over Firefox, finding it far quicker to move around the WordPress backend, so much so I’ve recommended it to all my WordPress clients.
This is a very good cart plugin to use with the Nextgen Gallery plugin. Intergration is relatively simple allowing you turn a photo gallery into an online shop with paypal payment.
I needed a reliable cart function for the Martin Phillips Studio project and this fitted the bill perfectly. You create Nextgen galleries in the normal way and then use a shortcode to apply pricing to the photos, making it incredibly client friendly. It’s ideal for a photography site as you can specify a range of pricing for different print sizes.
The support is also first-rate. The plugin didn’t have a feature I required so I emailed the author and within 48 hours an upgraded version was available for download.
Visit the plugin site here: eStore plugin.
I seem to be writing posts on hosting companies recently as they all seem to have little quirks when it comes to setting up WordPress.
The installation on One.com is pretty simple but it did strike me as odd how they deal with the config file. If you upload it with the rest of the files via ftp WP has a hard time finding the database. Instead One.com prefer to create it for you prompting for names and passwords.
One last quirk, there is a CSS cache that can’t be turned off, so any subsequent changes you make to your stylesheet will take a long long while to appear.
Pretty awful. Took an age to upload via ftp as the connection kept closing then when the site went live the server was so slow no one could load the site properly. The client called 123 tech support who acknowledged there was a “known issue with WordPress” and he could get his money back, begging the question …
*Note: this post is over a year old so WordPress support may have improved.