Dart Stables (www.dartstables.com) is one of New Zealand's premier horse trekking operations.
Based in Glenorchy, near the outdoor-sport and ski resort of Queenstown on the South Island their website has helped inform domestic and international visitors about the different horse rides they offer.
Surrounded by stunning mountain scenery the home page utilises a panoramic shot of Glenorchy and the site incorporates a picture gallery to further wet the visitor's appetite.
The site also includes an online booking form which has significantly reduced back office admin, a testimonial submission form, and a twitter feed which keeps visitors up to date with their latest news.
Finally and important for Dart Stables was search engine ranking on key search words. Their new website has helped propel their search ranking results which mean traffic has increased from a few hundred to a over a thousand unique visits a month.
The Hounslow Comunnity Farming Association (www.hcfa.org.uk) is a project that started in 2009 with the aim of turning unused brownfield land and allotments in the London borough of Hounslow into agricultural and horticultural use.
They required a simple website they could present to interested parties and potential new members, but one that was also scalable and could offer increased functionality with time. These requirements can be fully met by developing in the Joomla CMS.
The site already has a document repository where visitors can download membership forms, agendas and minutes. It also has a online volunteer rota where members can put their name down for participating in groundwork at their first site in Feltham.
Photos By Lilli (www.photosbylilli.co.uk) is a photographic website where the client wished to advertise and promote her services.
The client required a simple startup website with five pages of information including an "About Me" section, a page on services offered, a testimonial page and a special offer page plus the home page.
Using Joomla it will be easy to upgrade the site to include such things as a photo gallery (either using a Joomla component or embedding an external gallery). Joomla content pages also allow easy embedding of media elements like YouTube which the client has used to give an example of some of her work.
Ticket T Shirts (www.tickettshirts.co.uk) was quickly developed to help steer more traffic to a t-shirt shop setup using the Spreadshirt.net shop system.
The main advantage of this approach is the shop now has its own unqiue domain name which helps SEO and site recognition. The main portion of the site is a frame for the shop created at Spreadshirt.net but includes navigable and indexed pages for each of the shops main categories.
Like all our sites this too was built in the Joomla CMS and includes a image rotation module to help showcase selected products, and widgets to their Facebook page and Twitter feed.
Hotel Monkey (www.hotelmonkey.co.uk) is a worldwide hotel booking website utilising the reservation engine from booking.com.
As well as the providing the user with a comprehensive reservation system the site incorpoates other information including pages listing hotels near top UK attractions, hotels in top stag and hen party destinations, destination guides, travel news, maps and a link to its sister website, Ticket Monkey (www.theticketmonkey.co.uk)
Hotels Near Twickenham Stadium (www.hotelsneartwickenhamstadium) is a niche hotel booking website again utilising the reservation engine from booking.com.
The site is aimed at visitors to events at the newly rebuilt Twickenham Stadium in south-west London. Using a Google Map plugin the user can see on the front page which hotels are closest with a colour key helping to identify price bands.
Clicking on a hotel name on the left (or an icon on the map) switches the user's focus to its map where an information box about that hotel pops up. Another click will take the user to that hotel's reservation booking page.
A horizontally scrolling ticker across the top of the page notifies users of upcoming events at the venue and clicking on the link will take them to a affiliate partner where tickets can be purchased.
Here are some examples of the some pure CSS designed templates.
www.trandy.co.uk/web/clients/flower
www.trandy.co.uk/web/clients/food
www.alphawebwise.co.uk/clients/footywebs
www.trandy.co.uk/web/clients/travel
Date: September 2006
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A note of thanks for your excellent work La Cascade Villa and Studio's website. Your professionalism, speed and accuracy has made what I thought would be an arduous task into a pleasurable experience. I have in the first full week a considerable amount of positive feedback from my friends and family who had already seen the photo's and the text before but were compelled to drop me a note of congratulations.
I can most definitely recommend your company's services to anyone.
Graham Heath
Date: January 2006
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Thanks Robert for all your hard work in setting up my web site. I'm absolutely thrilled with it and have had lots of compliments. I wanted a website very easy to navigtate, modern and clean looking, and most importantly something to show my photographs off to their best potential. You listened to my requirements and came up with the perfect design almost immediately and I was very impressed. You also made it easy for me by being so down to earth and easy to talk to as I haven't got a clue about technical things and you were able to translate web language gobbledegook into plain English for me. Thanks, I highly recommend you and wish you lots of luck with your business.
Emma Baxter, Photographer
(www.trandy.co.uk/web/clients/everett)
Date: October 2005
Date: May 2005
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When professional footballer Andy Scott was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy a rare genetic disorder which restricts the efficient pumping of blood around the body it came as a career ending shock to Andy and the many friends he had made during his career.
A Benefit Fund was established to aid Andy and his young family and the Trustees needed to find a web authoring company who could not only get a site up and running quickly but who would also be responsive to the need for ad-hoc changes as fundraising event details were finalised and donations received.
Robert Trand of Web Wise fitted the bill precisely. Not only was the site up and running quickly helping us to attract donations and publicise events but Robert arranged hosting for us and undertook seemingly daily updates as event plans matured. His attention to detail in meeting our needs was excellent as was the level of service he offered
Thanks in part to our web presence the Andy Scott Benefit Fund has now raised in excess of £20,000 which has been split between Andy and his nominated charity Cardiac Risk in the Young .
Nigel Brooks, Financial Secretary for Andy Scott Benefit
(www.abodelettingsltd.co.uk)
Date: April 2005
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Date: March 2005
Serenity, is a newly formed company by Kerry Whitfield. Although, Kerry has been feelancing her massage techniques as an after work hobby, she decided at Christmas 2004 to start trading Serenity as a full time job. Kerry felt Serenity needed a web presence and came to Alpha Web Wise for advice about designing and hosting the site.
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I would like to say thank you to Web Wise for the work you have done on my website. I work as a massage therapist and am a sole trader, but wanted to have web presence. Beyond that, I had no definite ideas about what I wanted my site to look like.
Working with Web Wise meant it was totally stress-free – they was patient when I was undecided, imaginative and creative when I lacked vision, and never made me feel like my site or my company were too small to be of importance.
Web Wise was committed to creating my site - they interpreted my sketchy ideas and has produced a site that is beyond my expectations, and portrays the image of my company that I wanted.
I would have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending Web Wise’s services – I have seen other sites they have created and each one has its own style – a good indication that they will work on each site as a totally individual project.
Kerry Whitfeld, Serenity
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Date: January 2005
Bay Tree house is a website advertising a holiday home in North Devon. The owner wanted to advertise the holiday home online giving information and pictures about the house and its surrounding areas.
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We are not a company, purely a family who wanted to rent out their property to help pay for the bills! We had thought along the lines of a website, but we didn't know much about them and also thought it would be expensive. Web Wise was recommended to us. They talked us through what they thought we needed as a site. The main problem was getting information from myself as I'm always busy! In the end he took it upon his self to visit the property and take photos. A few weeks later they showed us a draft version of the site. For the amount he was charging we couldn't believe it! A good job done for a very fair cost!
Peter Guntrip