New website design: The Devon Carpenter - Phil Szaniszlo

Phil Szaniszlo commissioned us to build a new website to use an advertising tool for his capentry services in Devon. The website was built with search engine optimization in mind and just a few weeks after launch his website is appearing at number one for his main Ggoogle phrase 'devon carpenter'.

We installed our new content management system on Phil's site to allow him to maintain and add to his website as time goes on. One of our philosophies here at Phototropic Productions is that we don’t want our customers to feel trapped in a circle of expensive mainatence fees just to make small edits to their websites. Phil can now edit his webiste when and how he wants and at no futher cost.

Most companies charge a lot to give this control to their customers as they know they won't get any more money out of the customer for making changes to the site. We believe that giving this control at a reasonable cost will help our word-of-mouth marketing and increase customer satisfaction, which is our first and foremost goal.

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New website design: Shillingford Organics

We built a new website for Exeter organic farm Shillingford Organics as they were keen to have more control over the content of their website as well as update the look of the old site.

We redesigned the website to come up with a consistent and attractive new look for Shillingford Organics. Due to their old website being quite difficult for them edit themselves; they had ended up with various different text treatments throughout the website and agreed with me in thinking that the content should be made much more consistent.

The new Shillingford Organics website is powered by our content management system which allows them to control not only the page content but also add images to galleries, build contact forms, and publish regular diary entries and recipes via a blog system which has full search functionality. The content management system even has a new 'Newsletter Module' which allows Shillingford Organics to send the content of any page on the site as an email newsletter to their mailing list.

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New website design: David Bullivant - Writer / Photogrpaher

Devon-based travel writer / photographer, David Bullivant recently commissioned us to build a completly new website for him based on his own design.

We had to work to the highest of standards when recreating his design as David has an almost obbseive attention to detail! Of course there were a few technical issues with his design such as it was too wide for a 1024x768 computer screen so we had to work together to get his design to fit within that minimum width.

David originally thought of building the website in Flash but, as that is not an area in which we work, I explained the merits of accesible, css-based web design and that we could use Javascript to achieve his desired interface animation effects.

Davidbullivant.com is powerered by our new content management system, SETSEED, which allows him to have full control over the content of his website. We modified the behaviour of the existing image gallery functionality to get the custom gallery effects that David wanted. Not only can David fully administer the images that appear in his collections, he can also add, remove and rename the galleries themselves. David is also making use of the content management systems' blog feautre.

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