My Creations
I have been fortunate enough to create several websites during my short time as a web designer. Below you will see a taste of what I have created and the process and thought behind each site.
Each site has it’s own set of constraints a pre-requisites to fulfil and each one so far has acted as a great learning curve for me. Scroll down to see the sites I have worked on and the experience I had.
My first website, created a few years ago, was for my current employer. This gave me a significant advantage: a deep understanding of the content. However, I later realized that this could also present challenges
I learned that having a strong grasp of the business I was designing for significantly improved my website creations. This realization, gained from my initial project, allowed me to focus on other design aspects and taught me valuable lessons about attention to detail for future projects.
For Be Financially Secure, I was tasked with creating an online marketing presence. In an industry traditionally reliant on face-to-face networking, digital marketing was a new approach for the IFA. Additionally, marketing a business that specializes in personal and business protection presented unique challenges, as these are topics many people prefer to avoid discussing. I had to carefully balance providing enough information to attract potential clients without offering so much that our services would become unnecessary.
The site for Advantage First Aid Training has gone through a variety of alterations as the business has grown and needs have changed as well as how I have increased my skill level. I was required to create a site to contain information to match up with information sent to a mailing list, the site needed to be simple to navigate and easy to update. On top of this, a logo was required as this was a new business, I kept this fairly simple as it was a temporoary design and my skills require more development, but my design still stands. Testimonials were a big request for the site and again need to be easy to update to keep the site fresh. As the business expanded there was a need to include new services and alter or remove services which were either no longer offered or had been changed or merged.
The lastest addition is that of a shop. To add this in I had to research the payment providers available and how I could integrate them into the site. The client opted for Square as it offered the best rate for an up and coming business. Once picked, I looked at how to integrate it to the site. Fortunately, Square offer a facility to add the selling pages via their own site, giving increased security for customer’s details. I was able to create the shop using the Square facility and link to it directly.
When I’m not producing sites for clients, I try and make time to work on my own site. The name is something my Dad came up with and includes the first two letters of mine and my brother’s names. Again a logo was required, I liked the idea of using the first letter to create the shape of the logo while using the negative space to hold the company name.
My site is designed to be fluid and I edit it as I hone my skills. Because of this I need to make sure it runs fast despite a large amount of design elements. I also need to be mindful of not losing some content I make changes, this leads to some rigorous testing and trailing different tools to help the site run smoother.
Greenfields Wood Store was my first e-commerce site. I had to overhaul a site that had been running for several years. This included making the site as efficient as possible for customers to view.
The challenge lay in the number of products and a large amount of variations. customers needed to be able to see as many of these without the need to travel from product page to product page.
Atelier T&B is a site in progress for a new Architerctural firm. While the site is being designed, I have created a splash page to allow the site to be visible to Google while I work.