Category Archives: News

17 May 2012

Client site overhaul complete

One of my current projects has been to overhaul the workings of a national company’s website. It had been built using an uneasy mix of Drupal (content management system), a custom PHP/mySQL backend system to manage their online rates, client quotes and bookings, and custom modifications to core Drupal code where Drupal wasn’t behaving in the way the designer wanted!

My solution was to retain the existing custom PHP/mySQL back-end system, and while keeping the current front-end look and feel, I created a custom content management system for the front-end website pages and documents which integrated into the existing back-end system. The result is a consistent look and feel with all the company’s administration functions in the same place and easier for them to understand and maintain.

The switchover was planned in such a way that it largely went unnoticed, with no downtime needed on this particular occasion. All in all, a very pleasing outcome!

17 Apr 2012

Busy times!

Busy times at the moment (shouldn’t complain!). Working on a set of registration forms for a national charity, a website for another national charity, a custom CMS for a removals company, promotion work for folkestone driving instructors, a ski chalet in Meribel and others, a website for a children’s sports coaching company, a website for a biotech company, a multi-language system for an estate agent, and several other projects…

If you want to add to our workload then please contact us!

23 Feb 2012

Kent driving school website and promotion work

W B Driving School, an Ashford driving school needed to improve their search engine rankings to attract new customers. Their previous site was built using the Google Sites system which although free initially is not a system well optimised for search engine rankings. We created a new website using WordPress, and customised the default theme to produce a search engine friendly and great value website which we can then promote using further SEO techniques. With the ongoing work we are doing W B Driving School now features prominently (after 3 weeks) for their key phrases such as ashford driving lessons and folkestone driving lessons.