Portfolio

CheckRenewables is a website that was developed for Shropshire and Cheshire County Councils. It provides a 'renewables toolkit' which allows users to enter details of their dwelling. These details are then used to advise the customer on which renewable energy technologies are suitable for their circumstances.

The website includes:

• An interactive 'toolkit'
• A directory of suppliers
• A comprehensive information section
• A system of dynamic .pdf creation

The website was developed in conjunction with the National Energy Foundation and Energy Projects Plus. As well as the 'live' website, two laptops were also provided which run 'stand-alone' versions of the website for use in areas where there is no connection to the internet.

The 'Carbon Workout' is an interactive carbon calculator which was developed in conjunction with National Energy Foundation and the the c-change trust. It takes elements from traditional carbon calculators and then goes one step further and allows the user to make 'pledges' to reduce their carbon footprint based on the information they have entered.

The website includes:

• A complete carbon calculator including household, car travel and air travel elements
• A dynamic system of 'charting' your progress as you complete the calculator
• A downloadable final report giving information to help reduce your carbon footprint
• A series of 'pledges' based on your situation

Once pledges have been made, a further report is available, detailing your pledges and providing useful information to allow you to carry out your pledges. The website also emails the user after a three month period and allows them to revist their pledges, report on their progress and (hopefully) make more pledges. The workout also links to PayPal so users can acknowledge their carbon debt.

The carbon workout was recently given 9/10 marks in an Observer poll of the top calculators, beating BT, bestfootforward, WWF, DEFRA and the official government calculator. The calculator is hosted within the main National Energy Foundation website.

Carbon Footprint Solutions is a green/ethical directory site.

The website has the following features:

• A fully featured directory of customers
• Functionality to allow customers to 'list themselves'
• A home carbon calculator including a automated email reporting system
• A searchable directory of articles
• Top 5 articles automatically linked from the front page
• A forum
• A extensive administration area which allows the site owner to keep the site up to date
• An automated interest/mailing list system
• Automated timed directory maintenance

EasyTrees is a website which offers visitors the chance to buy native English trees as gifts.

The website has the following features:

• Interactive certificate building
• Integration with the PayPal payment gateway
• Automatic production and emailing of completed PDF certificates
• Multiple choices of certificate images
• Full feedback of completed certificates from site to site owner

This site represents a fully automated process that allows the site owner to make sales without having to do anything. All sales are detailed in emails for site owner records.

Franklyn Nevard Associates is a company of architects from London. The website offers a portfolio of their work, opportunities to contact the company and details of how the company operate.

The website includes:

• A gallery of past projects
• A full contact page
• A clean design

The Big Green Idea is a website for a charity that has been set up by Brigit Strawbridge from the television program ‘It's not easy being green’. The aim of the charity is to educate and enable people to make changes in order to live a ‘greener’ lifestyle.

The website includes:

• A fresh, ‘uncluttered’ design
• A contact page
• A mailing list/newsletter system
• A donation system using PayPal as a payment system

BrynaHerb™ Essences Ltd produce and supply a wide range of flower essences.

The website provides them with an online shop with the following features:

• Full shopping facilities
• Mailing list
• Search products
• Full owner administration
• Automated “Blog” ticker
• “Dual site” switching
• Purchasing in multiple currencies

The administration facility gives the owner complete control over the contents of the website in an easy to use interface which requires no programming skill to operate.

Seize the Day are a radical folk band who sings songs of protest about the major issues of the day.

Their website provides them with a prescience on the internet where they can get their message to the people. The website includes:

• Pages about the band members
• A page for every song including a Flash file for playing the song
• A dynamic gig list
• A section for band news
• A section for campaigns which the band are involved in
• A contact form and a newsletter facility
• Automatic RSS feeds
• A campaigns news ticker
• An administration area where band members can send newsletters, administer gigs and administer band news

Liz Roe-French is an astrologer with 30 years experience in the field. She gives astrological reading, runs workshops and presents seminars.

The website offers her a ‘shop window’ and central point of contact on the web.

Included within the site are various ‘download’ areas where customers can download newsletters and case studies.

The site also features certain dynamic aspects which change as the day progresses.

David Snowdon is a bespoke furniture maker in the Forest of Dean with over 27 years experience of fine furniture manufacture.

The website showcases Davids work via a number of image galleries and also offers a contact form and a page for client testimonials.

A 'slide-in' gallery and random images add some movement to the front page.

The site was written in such a way as to make it easy for the customer to keep it up to date.

Yorkley Financial Services provide a full range of financial services.

The website features:

• Details about the company
• A brief description of the services offered
• A full contact form
• Online quote request for mortgages

Dave King Fireplaces are an established business with 25 years of experience in their field. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire they offer a complete fire and fireplace fitting service.

The website provides them with an online presence to add to their other marketing.

The site is designed with standards compliant XHTML and CSS and is optimised for both accessibility and search engine inclusion.

Sanderling Holiday Cottages offer two cottages for rent in the stunning village of Sennen Cove in Cornwall.

The site provides the following:

• Online booking
• Local details
• Cottage gallery
• Area maps
• Pricing structure
• Contact form

The online booking system allows visitors to reserve a cottage in advance of a deposit payment. The cottage is held for one week from the date of reservation. Other visitors can “express an interest” in an already reserved cottage. If the original booking is cancelled then all who expressed an interest are notified by email.

A full administration system allows the owners of the site to browse reservations and bookings, contact customers and add bookings. It also gives the facility to change the descriptions of the cottages.

A website for a bass guitar player based in Reading.

The website provides the following:

• A brief biography
• Details of bands, past and present
• Contact details and contact form
• Technical details of Mike's bass setup
• Songs section

The songs section gives visitors the opportunity to preview some of the songs that Mike has written/performed on. It is designed in such a way to allow visitors to listen to entire songs yet not be able to download them permanently.