Web Site Design - Portfolio - Older Websites

National Late Breaks

www.nationallatebreaks.co.uk. This is a holiday home website. "It is your one stop UK Holiday Property Directory. Whatever you are looking for, whether its self-catering, camping and caravanning, bed and breakfast, apartments, parks and hotels they are all featured on these pages."

This project was a little bit different as the current owners of the site inherited a working website based on properties in Devon and Cornwall. The site did not look anything like they wanted it to and didn't really provide the searches and facilities that they wanted to go national. So they were looking for a complete facelift to change the appearance of the site and provide maximum search engine optimisation opportunities, plus an upgrade to the database web application running in the background. They also wanted to maintain the site themselves after it was upgraded as they had some familiarity with HTML and Dreamweaver so they needed the code restructured to make it easy for them to do this. The system is PHP and the database MySQL.

national late breaks, Barkway, Hertfordshire

RNM Supplies

www.rnmsupplies.co.uk are a new online stationery (or is it stationary!) and office supplies company. This is a competitive business and they are using a backend system to manage the supply of products so Nick and Nathan needed a set of search engine friendly web pages to draw in the custom. I explained how to make the best of the search engines and pointed out that the competitive market is going to make it difficult to get high rankings and that google is unlikely to give a new site the rankings it deserves for at least 6 months in the face of such competition. With this in mind the website was launched in March 2007, it has around 15 front end pages that have been search engine optimised and a Blog. The Blog is used primarily to allow Nick and Nathan to add their own pages to the site in the shape of news items and informative articles. I also did some branding of the back end products system.

"Pleased with how it is going" Nick Miles, RNM Supplies

RNM Supplies - online stationery and office supplies company, Welwyn, Hertfordshire

AAPT - Alex Adams Personal Trainer

www.aapt.co.uk. Alex Adams offers a Personal Trainer Service. This includes gym training, home or office training and outdoor training. Alex takes a holistic approach and will look at diet and nutrition as well as posture.

Alex had a go at designing his own website but could not get the professional look he was after. So he approached us with his draft web sirte designs to see what we could do. Alex had a colour scheme and a look in mind - "Black, Electric blue and Silver, Modern and sleek (metalics etc)" - and had developed his own logo. I must admit black web pages pages was a new departure for us and getting a workable blue was a bit troublesome but I think it has worked out well.

"I'm glad I employed Epsilis to design my web site as they made the process really simple for me. All aspects were completed very quickly and provided a comprehensive web design that I am really happy with. Far better than I could have done myself."
Alex Adams - aapt

AAPT Alex Adams - Personal Trainer, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Drakes Group

Drakes are the UK’s leading independent provider of civil enforcement and debt recovery services to the public and private sector. Established for over 70 years, Drakes has transformed itself from a certificated bailiffs company to become a modern professional enforcement agency, which meets clients’ present and anticipated needs. Drakes enviable reputation is built on the company’s experience of working with local authorities, magistrates’ courts, central government agencies, and more than 500 private sector clients.

We designed, built and regularly maintain their current website on their behalf. The requirement was to produce a professional website, that worked effectively in the search engines and met accessibility requirements. The site includes an online Warrant Generator and an online Repossession Order Generator to allow Drakes' clients to get quick responses to their needs. Their website now ranks on page one of Google for "certified bailiffs". We also created template web pages for Drakes to use within their intranet.

"Thanks ... the new warrant generator looks great."
Adele Harrow, The Drakes Group

Drakes Group, Waltham Abbey, Essex

Incredit

Incredit is a registered charity providing help and assistance to a variety of individuals seeking to develop a business. Their client groups cover a broad sweep of those facing the biggest barriers to success in enterprise: women, young people (16-30), people from black and minority ethnic communities, people with disabilities, social enterprises, offenders and ex-offenders.

They had a corporate brand in mind already - the rather clever use of the rounded squares - which runs through everything they print. So we designed the web site around this motif and we are rather pleased with the end result. We designed the website throughout using CSS to provide maximum accessibility. The website incorporates a private area which houses an extensively searchable database of relevant service providers.

"Thank you for enhancing this website in a very short space of time "
Kate Belinis, Head of Operations, Incredit

Incredit Limited, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

The Bridgman Group

The Bridgman Group is the parent company of Drakes Commercial Services, Drakes Proactive Enforcement, Drakes National Enforcement Agency, Eurotrust Services and Bridgman Communications. They offer a broad range of services including civil enforcement, consumer and commercial debt collection and mobile data communications.

We designed, built and regularly maintain their current website. The requirement was to produce a professional website that did justice to their new image to complement a new marketing brochure.

"Looks great, thanks for all your hard work"
Joseph Tirelli, Marketing Manager, The Bridgman Group

The Bridgman Group, Waltham Abbey, Essex

Eurotrust Services

Eurotrust Services is a new company formed as part of The Bridgman Group.

The group had a number of websites developed internally and Joseph Tirelli, Marketing Manager for the Bridgman Group felt it was now time for a start for the group and was looking for a more effective web presence.

This was our first website for this group. We had to work to a tight deadline to ensure the new site was ready to coincide with the launch of the new company - Eurotrust Services company.

As well as providing a clear, professional website to make an impact for the launch, secure services were added to the website to allow for the issue and tracking of online warrants.

Since this project we have redeveloped all the websites of the Bridgman Group.

EuroTrust Services, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire

Mapac Group Ltd

The Mapac Group Ltd sell an extensive range of education based products such as bags and school clothes with printed logos, as well as a ranges of art products, music products and printed carrier bags. They sell their products throughout the world.

The brief was for a new website with a new contemporary look. The web site is full e-commerce based, selling their various product ranges to the public, schools and retailers in the various regions of the world in 3 currencies. The project included the creation of an extensive purpose built product database covering Mapac's complex product range. The web site has member login facilities to allow retailers and organisation such as schools access to bulk pricing deals and printed logo requirements.

The Mapac Group, Watford, Hertfordshire

Bishop Creighton House

Bishop Creighton House Settlement wanted a cleanly presented straightforward site to support their charitable activities at the community centre and out in the Hammersmith and Fulham area.

To aid accessibility the web site is designed using style sheets for content positioning rather than using tables, all text content resizes with the visitors browser text size settings and the site pages scale to fit the browser window.

All pages of the web site are manageable through our epecentre content management software package.

"I'm really happy to provide a testimonial: I found working with you very helpful and supportive. As you know, we didn't have much IT expertise in-house, and it was vital to have someone who talked us through it in a way we could easily understand. I especially appreciated the support and advice around things like accessibility, and legal issues like the privacy policy. Your response to my hundreds of queries was fast and helpful, and I also appreciated your willingness to make the hundreds of small changes as we went through the process! Thanks for all your help"
Karen Osborn, Director, Bishop Creighton House, London

Bishops Creighton House, London

Finance 4 U

Finance4u is a Mortgage Broker specialising in Self Certification Mortgages and Adverse Credit Mortgages. They provide a mortgage and loans service with no broker fees. They specialise in Mortgages for the Self Employed and others unable to prove income for reasons of poor credit history or through inability to prove income are traditionally unable to obtain a mortgage.

Site owner Richard Lodge had spent quite a lot of money on having the site designed by a web design company and even more money with a specialist search engine optimisation company but had saw no improvement in search engine performance. He asked us to review his site to see if there was any obvious reason why this was the case. We showed Richard how search engine optimisation and web design are closely linked and cannot be done sensibly as 2 separate activities. We took over the site maintenance and revamped the HTML coding and the site content to appeal to the visitors and search engines more effectively. We have also assisted Richard with his Google Adwords pay per click campaign. After a couple of months the site started to show significant improvements in the search engine rankings in a very competitive market - this is a difficult market so we had to go for searches using Hertfordshire to get good results. (Try "self cert mortgages hertfordshire" or "self employed mortgages hertfordshire" in Google.) We did a regular search engine review and optimisation project to improve the search engine ratings further.

Site owner Richard Lodge commented "I have tried the new adwords campaign, we were top of the class and I am pleased with the response"

Finance4u is the trading name of Adams Mortgages, Welwyn, Hertfordshire

Prospects Services Ltd

Prospects Education and Work Based Learning [Training] Directory for London Boroughs. This was a new web site with a contemporary but clean look for the teen age market for Prospects in association with Connexions and the Central London Learning and Skills Council.

The web site provided many ways to search the extensive Directory database which is fully manageable via a module of our epecentre content management software.

To aid accessibility the web site was designed using CSS style sheets for content positioning, all text content resizes with the visitors browser text size settings and the web site pages scale to fit the browser window.

"Epsilis have a professional and flexible approach to their business. Our project had a demanding brief in terms of functionality and deadline. Epsilis kept us informed at every stage to ensure that the project evolved to meet all our requirements.
Epsilis inspired confidence at every stage through their ability to accurately understand and interpret our needs. Their proactive approach in the application of the latest technologies ensured our site met the Web accessibility requirements of our audience."
Stefan Passchier, Web Site Manager, Prospects Services Ltd, Orpington, Kent

Prospects Careers Information Unit, Orpington, Kent

Sterry Communications

We were responsible for the design and construction of 3 versions of the Sterry Communications website over 6 years up to the takeover of the company.

The last version was a complete overhaul of the look, structure and content of the web site. Included in the site upgrade was an implementation of the W3C accessibility guidelines. The web site featured Sterry's product ranges based on supplier and on target markets. New features include news management and management of customer support materials in the form of FAQ's and product manual downloads.

"Since updating our site with Epsilis, we have had a large increase in visitors. This is mostly due to the increased content and regular news updates that can be included through the content management management software. We have recently received a large order from a enquiry generated from the site who researched our company from the website before contacting us. Working with Epsilis to complete the web site has been easy."
Andrew Parmenter, Marketing Manager, Sterry Communications, Welwyn, Hertfordshire and Bredbury, Manchester

Sterry Communications, Welwyn, Hertfordshire and Bredbury, Manchester

Morrisby Organisation

Morrisby are leaders in psychometric assessments for career advice and guidance.

www.morrisby.com includes extensive career advice information and multiple search mechanisms to help select careers or further education. The requirement was for a new website design based around a new brochure with a very visual home page and business like internal pages. All the website content is manageable using the standard edition of our epecentre Content Management software

"We wanted a site that was attractive but business-like appearance and allows users uncomplicated access to the many pages of information we provide. Other important factors were that the new site had to be available within a fixed time frame and once up and running, it should be readily accessible and quick to update. Epsilis were selected as the supplier because they were able to meet all the criteria. From a basic outline of these needs, Epsilis quickly understood our requirements and offered a series of design proposals. This included advice on the structure of the site to ensure easy navigation and compatibility with a range of browsers.
The Content Management Consol has proved a rapid and effective system for managing the site. It allows us to make our own day-to-day changes by editing text, changing and inserting tables and images, as required. Routine control of the site remains with us but at the same time, there is telephone support as and when needed. Throughout the project, the Epsilis team have been readily available to ensure the project was on time and to our complete satisfaction. Within days of the website going live, we were receiving compliments on the design, the speed and of course, the content."
David Gould, The Morrisby Organisation, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

The Morrisby Organisation, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire