Proteros are a supplier of data systems for several business sectors. They wanted to redesign their website to present a more professional and slick image, improve the user experience and make their product data and benefits clearer. We created a clean and professional design and layout, with clear calls-to-action using their corporate colour palette. Tabbed internal pages allow access to a large amount of information without scrollin. Custom icons and infographics present clear visual clues in a consistent manner.
Natural Health Welwyn
This local health food shop was looking to radically overhaul the design of their extremely popular ecommerce site. This was part of a project to improve the conversion process and drive online sales. We created new design concepts for client approval, working from supplied wireframes and requirements. The approved design was implemented on a development area, allowing full user and client testing, before final sign-off and go-live.
IJ CNC Services
This local CNC services company asked us to redesign their website and also rebrand their logo and colours scheme. They also wanted to sell a small range of products from the website. We chose our favourite CMS – WordPress, along with an ecommerce plugin. The design is striking, with red being used as the call to action colour. The shopping cart and services are visible from all pages and a custom-built ‘Request a quote’ form is included.
Energise Media
We were approached to create this custom-designed website using the Wordpress CMS. This video production company wanted to integrate their social media profiles and a blog, to add regular content, so the Wordpress platform was a perfect choice. The website also has three forms for Call-back, Request a Quote and Contact and randomly changing testimonials on each page.
Bowmansgreen Primary School
We created this highly-functional and user friendly website built on WordPress, as it is considered the most user-freindly CMS available. The design reflects the school logo and branding. Contact details are prominent, the homepage includes an image fader to present images and links to new and key areas of the website. The twitter feed and news areas are featured. Links to key information are presented in a second menu and linked images.
Applied Diamond
We created this highly-functional ecommerce website for Applied Diamond (Products) Ltd, one of the largest stockists of diamond cutting tools in the UK. The client brief was incorporate a clean, functional design with the ability for users to quickly navigate through the product catalogue. We used a dropdown selector so that any product can we found within 4 clicks from anywhere in the website.
Unlocking Warwick
Warwick Town Council commissioned Verulam Web Design to create a bespoke website to give a web presence for a Heritage Lottery Bid to renovate the Court House in Warwick town centre. We created a stylish design and custom functionality to allow a chronological listing of key events in the history of this building and the ability to give a ‘thumbs up’ for articles and a ‘did you know’ facts to add interest.
WottleDo
We have provided project management and design and development services for an exciting new business referral and interactive directory website – WottleDo. This project has taken 18 months from initial brainstorming and wireframes to launch, requiring a large team with graphic design, website design, software development, copywriting, testing and user experience skillsets.
Reshape Building Services
A local building services company approached Verulam Web Design to redesign and code a search-engine friendly website to promote their domestic and commercial building services. We used Wordpress, because of its SEO friendly coding, structure and range of plugins. The website has a clean design, with quality images and concise copy.
Guru Communications
A local design and branding agency asked us to create for them a new and striking website to promote their branding and design services. To allow them to update content and keep the site fresh, we decided to use WordPress as the CMS. We created the website from their supplied graphic design concepts.
Hunter Sourcing
A local design agency approached us to create a bespoke Wordpress-based website for Hunter Sourcing in Harpenden. Hunter develop custom-made luxury packaging and promotional products from concept to delivery. The website was created from supplied designs that reflect the beautiful packaging created for many top brands.
Mark Ballett
Mark Ballett, an experienced business coach, asked us to create a blog-based website for him to demonstrate his business knowledge and provide advice and updates to his clients and subscribers. We chose our favourite content management system, Wordpress, as the perfect choice for these requirements.
Murals and Paintings
A local artist in St Albans asked us to create a WordPress website to promote her art. She specialises in wall murals, oil paintings and watercolours. The website presents the work as large images in specific categories, so it is easy to navigate. The clean design does not detract from the bright and stiking art work.
AMC Exhibitions
We were approached to create a custom template, for use with the Joomla CMS, from supplied design work. AMC Exhibitions specialises in offering exhibition solutions for businesses at events all over the world, and their website required a large amount of custom functionality to show the full range of their services, and page layouts to show the different aspects of their work.
Cupcake Bouquet
This Wordpress based website also incorporates the powerful Wordpress e-commerce plugin to also allow e-commerce functionality. The client can not only update content, but also products that can be hand-delivered or posted for next day delievery. We took her logo and design materials to create a website design consistent with her existing brand identity.
Chalet Doctors
A French-based Chalet rental and sales company asked us to help redevelop their website to be more SEO friendly and aid conversions. We adapted the Chalet Doctors existing website to Wordpress and added new functionality and SEO optimisation. We also added search functionality that integrates with a third-party property search company, Dezrez, that allows users to quickly find suitable properties in the French Alps.
UFTackle
We were contacted to help create an e-commerce website for UFT.Ltd in Coventry. They provide fishing products to the trade sector. We decided to use Prestashop with some custom coding to help enable different Trade customer access to specific product categories and specific pricing structures.
500 Limited
Verulam Web Design were recently approached by a local St Albans Telephony company, 500 limited, to redesign their homepage. The bried was to reduce the video size but emphasise the ‘calls to action’ for thier clients and visitors. The design was signed-off and implemented on their wordpress-based website in January 2011.
Grove House
Grove House Hospice is a charity based in St Albans which provides quality care and support for those with cancer and life-threatening illness. We have created lots of promotional material for many of the fundraising events that Grove house organises to raise money for the ongoing services they offer to patients. Working with existing styles creating new logos for events, designing posters, brochures, tickets and maps for events, we have enjoyed creating a lot of design materials for Grove House.
Mokoko
Mokoko is St Albans first and only real style bar. Specialising in cocktails, champagne and wine, they provide a social drinking experience unrivalled by any other pub, bar or hotel in the City. We were challenged by the owner to create a modern logo and brand style that would capture the feeling of a vibrant elegant place for the sophisticated drinker. Through working through ideas we created a modern, sophisticated logo and brand style which works perfectly with the bar. Using earthly colours and strong iconic shapes and images we have created a strong brand that captures the mood and vibe of the bar and the people.
Res Group
RES is one of the world’s leading renewable energy developers, with the core of their business in designing, financing and operating wind farms. We were appointed to rebrand the ‘RES Offshore’ sector for all marketing materials. Strong bold colours were used to give ‘RES Offshore’ an easily recognisable identity in it’s own right. Ongoing projects have given us the opportunity to create promotional procures, clothing design, pop up point of sale systems and illustration projects for RES.
Harmony Airport Transfers
We are currently conducting a search engine optimisation campaign for a London-based airport transfers, shuttle and chauffeur service – Harmony Airport Transfers. We have been able to improve their search engine position for the keyword term ‘London airport transfers’ from 13th in October 2010 to currently 3rd (position ‘c’ in listings). We are also improving their search visibility for other desirable keyword terms.
Pins and Things
This e-commerce website sells a variety of pin badges, especially London Olympics 2012, and toys. The owners had a very dated and very basic e-commerce site that they wanted updating with a fresh new web 2.0 design and a more modern framework. We used our favourite framework, Prestashop and added a clean, but professional, design and layout.
Legal Futures
We have become expert in many aspects of custom coding for the Wordpress CMS platform. In January 2010 a local web design agency commissioned us to develop a website, based on their design, aimed at providing up-to-date information for the legal profession. This we achieved using templates for the different pages required and custom coding to provide bespoke functionality, including the business directory.
Mirathon Gites
This site was commissioned by a the owners of a Gite we stayed in the summer of 2009. The site is uses the powerful Joomla CMS with a plugin to handle the reservation requests and store them in a database. The frontpage uses javascript to slowly fade in various images of the properties. Clients can view availability of the Gites and email a reservation request to the owner via the site. They receive confirmation and the owner can update the availability calendar and keep a track of ongoing bookings.