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01225 436109Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Stephen O’ Dwyer Builders are a business that produces high quality building work based in Calne. Stephen was doing some work for Marcel Floyd of Floyd’s Climbers and liked what we had done for their website.
They needed a website that they could use to show of their portfolio of building work and to act as an online contact point with a clean design that would separate them from their competitors.
We came up with a unique design built on the WordPress framework that used the news posts and categories to show their building work as a series of case studies with an image gallery.
Case studies are a great way of showing what you do. Often, when you try to write a more formal description of what you do, it can be hard work and the result ends up making you sound like a combination of Miss World and Mary Poppins; in that you *can* do everything and you *like* to be say you are the best.
When you write a case study, you are writing about a real world example in way that is comfortable and easy to do. In effect, you are writing a story about something you have done, which is the sort of thing you talk about anyway, so writing it becomes easy because you are talking about what you know best.
Anyway, Stephen O’Dwyer, who is one of the nicest builders in the world to boot, now has a website that displays his work and what he can do and separates him from his competition.
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Amanda Richards from Young at Heart was one of Godjira’s very first customers when we built a very cool website for her beauty salon in Trowbridge. When she helped set up Young at Heart, we were one of the first people she called to help them with a website.
Young at Heart are an artery scanning and wellness business and they needed a website to be able to help with online marketing and promotion of their clinics, workshops and products.
Amanda is familiar with WordPress and we all felt this was the best way to get an engine under the hood of the website that could feed out to multiple other media, including a Facebook page, Twitter stream, RSS feed and a MailChimp mailing list.
We asked Mark McGuiness from Covert Digital to help with the design on this one and he produced a very clean and classy design that fits in well with the business. We then created a unique custom WordPress template.
The site has features like an Events Calendar and an Online Shop that have both been added as WordPress plugins and integrate seamlessly with the site..
Young at Heart now have an extremely powerful marketing tool for their business as well as clean and professional site.
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
When The DiveZone wanted a new online shop, they knew where to come. We have been working with them for *ages* and have just finished their dedicated Kowalski Diving torch shop at http://www.kowalksi-uk.com.
They wanted a shop that carried over the look and feel of their corporate image and their existing website, yet at the same time looked like a shop and was clear and easy to use.
The DiveZone were happy with and very familiar with the ZenCart open source e-commerce software which we had used on Kowalski and we chose that as the platform for this site as well.
We designed site using a front page slider of featured products and a drop-down “mega” menu that allows you to get instantly to the product category you want. We also carried through The DiveZone main logo and the imagery in the background, but at the same time making the site light and clean to support displaying product images.
The DiveZone are very happy with their site. They have something that works, is easy to use and to which they can add their own stock and images easily ans imply. It’s also extendable in that you can add modules to increase functionality such as a MailChimp sign-up box or a Google base feed quickly and easily.
http://www.thedivezone.co.uk/shop
http://www.kowalski-uk.com
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Devizes Children’s Centre is a project we got involved in through Patricia Harper of PHaros Marketing. Pat helps Devizes with a lot of their copywriting and marketing and we’ve worked with Pat on a number of projects before. So when they needed a new website that they could update themselves as well as produce regular news articles, of course the answer was WordPress and Godjira!
We worked with Pat and Stephen Richardson of DesignMix to put together a design that fitted their existing corporate style. While the site was building we put up another temporary site to fill the gap as well as manage the transfer of the domain name to our servers and setting up all the email accounts for the centre.
This isn’t the first time we’ve worked with Pat. We also built WordPress site for The Rural Needs Initiative, another SureStart Children’s Centre in Marlborough and Tidworth. (Godjira are working on another SureStart Centre in Chippenham too).
To help the Children’s Centre staff get to grips with WordPress we provided on site WordPress training as well as user manuals for the site and the associated forum.
We have delivered a really useful and flexible site that the Children’s Centre can use to publicise their courses and events. We have also shown about how nicely we play with others and how linking up with copywriters and graphic designers can help everyone to get the best out of their website and on-line marketing.
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Marcel and Sara Floyd run a clematis nursery business based at Norrington Plants about half a mile down the road from Godjira Worldwide headquarters. Joe Almond from Norrington Plants is already a happy Godjira customer so when Marcel mentioned he wanted to sell plants on-line Jo pointed him in our direction.
Marcel is a specialist Climber and Clematis grower and wanted to be able to offer the plants on a website that was easy to use, easy to find and performed well in search engines.
We put together a solution based on Zen Cart, the open source e-commerce software. We figured this was going to be a shop first and foremost, so the site must look like a shop and behave like a shop and have all the bells and whistles that go with a shop.
The design needed to be in keeping with his competitors, but we hope we have added the regular Godjira touches that make it bright, clean and easy to use. Of course being Godjira, we went the extra mile with things like dynamic image resizing, search engine friendly URLs, an XML sitemap and publishing the feed out to Froogle (Google’s shop thing)*. We helped Marcel set-up PayPal to take the money and sorted out the shipping rules and helped with the terms and conditions as well, we figure we have done this sort of thing before, so it’s only fair to help.
* if you want to know what this stuff means, give us a call and we will be happy to explain!
As a result, Marcel and Sara have an on-line shop that lets them earn money while they sleep as well as represent their business on the web. Godjira have gained another friendly and happy customer.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
The Orbit research website came about because of one of John’s past lives as a Project Manager for a medical imaging company. Orbit were part of the team that were responsible for getting medical images from the mobile MRI and CT trucks around Birmingham via satellite to Budapest and then back to Birmingham and Cardiff. Orbit provided the mobile satellite equipment and the satellite infrastructure. John did stuff like crawl around on the back of unfinished MRI trucks with network cables and set up 12 servers in a week as well train Radiologists in Budapest and Birmingham.
Anyway. Orbit wanted a new website and were referred to Godjira from John’s old employer Pukka-j. Gavin at Orbit wanted more than just a website that sat there and was interested in the marketing methodology that goes with a news driven site.
We have provided Orbit with a WordPress driven site that lets them edit and add as much content as they want. We also split their main product offerings down to three target areas presented on the front splash screen with a bit of funky JavaScript driven image swapping.
Being WordPress, the site is Google focussed and does clever stuff like feed an RSS feed out to populate a Facebook fanpage. We also included the LiveZilla live support software, so now if you want to know anything about Satellite Internet solutions, you can chat live with a genuine bona fide expert in Gavin Foster. We also set up a mailing list based on the RSS feed using FeedBurner.
We really liked working with Orbit. Gavin has some great expressions for common computer issues. Such as user error being “Finger Trouble” and VOIP phones being “scramblers”. We hope to continue the relationship and look forward to helping Orbit with their online marketing for years to come.
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Go-go Wear is a shop website for a range of sexy shoes and boots.
We were asked to make it clean clear and simple to use with a focus on the products themselves. We were also asked to come up with a logo and branding.
We decided to use ZenCart, the free Open Source shopping cart software. Zen Cart is fully featured and has lots of available add-ons. Plus it’s free, which is the best price!
We came up with a logo design and site design that we felt reflected the nature of the shoes. Quite often these shoes are sold with a range of other products like lingerie and we wanted a look and feel that separated us from that market, hence the groovy chick in a seventies stylee.
We also wanted to promote the site using a blog, rather than throw it all in together and risk losing the clean nature of the shop site, we added a separate WordPress based blog at blog.gogowear.co.uk and then linked to two together by putting RSS feeds from each site on to the other. (Something you have to use a third party feed manager for, in this case we used Feedburner).
We also set up a Facebook Fan Page at facebook.com/gogowear and a Twitter feed at twitter.com/gogowear and populated both with the RSS feed.
We really like this one. It’s simple, elegant and yet technically very clever with lots of integration going on behind the scenes. The shoes also rock !
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Every website design agency has a portfolio page. We want to make ours a little different by telling you a little story about each customer in terms of what we are asked to do, what we actually did and how we added value and over-performed for each customer.
Of course we are going to include some screenshots, but it’s people and stories that are interesting so we want to tell you about those.
Watch this space as we add more and more of our customer portfolio.
