How do you make a beautiful website functional? Here we present Grace and Glory; a new fashion boutique in Tettenhall on the outskirts of Wolverhampton.
This new shop is brimming with style and poise. We think the new website design reflects the aesthetic nature of the shop and its market segment. Surely if you want to look outstanding this summer, then darling, get yourself down to Grace and Glory or of course buy online at www.grace-and-glory.co.uk.
Learning Cultures are specialist change consultants in Education.
A new website has been created for our new client Learning Cultures. This specialist training provider aims their bespoke training courses at education establishments including Schools, Colleges and Universities. Their aims are to help these establishments handle change and implement it in positive ways. As their website says; “Our products and services are designed to help an organisation plan their strategy for change, develop and communicate action plans to embed that change.
“We offer a range of training and development services to support schools, colleges and other educational organisations develop people to deliver excellence and improvement in teaching and learning. You may want a package that embeds SCOPE across the whole organisation or you may want to use individual parts of the programme to improve practice or communication or to develop middle managers in effective coaching techniques so that they can embed a strategy for change using many of our techniques and processes.”
For more information on these courses, please visit www.learningcultures.co.uk
new website design for changemakers the national UK charity
We are very pleased to announce that we have now joined forces with a very worthwhile charity. Changemakers are a National charity providing advice and assistance to young people who wish to “make a change” either in their lives or in the lives of others.
Their statement says it all: “ Changemakers are young people who lead positive change in their world. Anyone can be a changemaker. The Changemakers Foundation exists to discover, inspire, develop and connect Changemakers. We also clear their path in the world by influencing the culture of organisations and the direction of policy. We’re creating a world in which young people have the confidence to lead and everyone understands we need them to.”
Clickingmad was chosen to redesign their website to provide a fresh new look for the youth section of their website. This is soon to be followed by a new style for their corporate information website. We are proud to be associated with this worthwhile charity and urge your support. www.changemakers.org.uk
a design concept for Tom Mackie the Internationally renowned photographer
If you have ever wondered who took the photos that retailers such as Ikea display in their framed picture areas, then it may well be this guy. Tom Mackie is a landscape photographer of international fame. We had discussions with Tom some months ago about building him a new website that would allow businesses to buy his prints directly from him and – if they pay the price – have him sign them as well.
After lengthy discussions with Tom it appears that most of his work involves lots and lots of boring travelling to get that one illusive shot, that we ALL want on our wall. (And I thought it was all glamour!) Watch this space for more announcements on this exciting new website from the master landscape photographer that is… Tom Mackie.
Shaun.
Hi again, I thought I would let you know who I went to see today on appointments about website design.
Ok it may not be that interesting unless you are in a similar business to the people I met today but hey, see what you think.
I will try to pin down what I suggested to my prospective client.
First one; A client in the combustion engineering field; not that I know much about that but it just reminded me of why I love my calling. I meet so many interesting people, really I do. These guys had a website some months ago but it was “crap” their words, not mine.
After a buyout they have realised that they are losing business and certainly credibility by not having a website up and running and moreover a professional looking website that will help them win new business. We discussed what their particular client type is and what their (their clients) buying process is. So we discussed how they should look. I reminded them that should consider building the website for their user, not for them or for me. This is pretty obvious really but if you look around the web you will see that many websites have definitely been designed to please the company themselves. This unfortunately often results in a real mess. So we agreed that a pro design was needed, a content management system to help them make alterations when needed. Free training to learn to update the website and good quality stats to help them understand what’s happening on the website.
Appointment number 2
These guys manufacture, by hand, timber framed buildings that would grace any property. They start from around 20k and go up and up (in price). Anyway they have a website already and the same old story came through yet again. Lack of communication from their existing supplier, no help to understand what is going on with their website and listening behind the words I gathered that they had lost faith in their current providers’ abilities to take them where they need to be.
We discussed their target market, the main reasons why they have a website and what I thought their marker place would want to see. So we agreed that it was all about high quality photos portraying the buildings in their very beast light. Also the site design needed to be of the highest quality to attract the discerning client. They also wanted to use the website as a referral tools so that prospects could see what they do – in detail. So we talked about multimedia, flash animation and I showed them some examples. They really liked some of our gallery work, with the ability for them to change the images of course.
I have confirmed all my conversations today back them by email and expect to be talking to both of them again soon. I never “hard sell” as that has already given a bad name to many website design companies. We have been going far too long to start bending people arms to use us. Just look at our work and talk to our clients and you will see what I mean. We don’t need to force people to use – fortunately!
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Shaun
