Shabby Chocolat – the website

Introducing a new website for Hebden Bridge rococo themed chocolate emporium > Shabbychocolat.co.uk  Visit the website to find out more about the chocolate – this is about the site!

A relatively new venture selling local artisan-made, French and Belgian chocolates both through the shop, and by mail order –  Madame Chocolat already uses Facebook, Pinterest and twitter to build the brand and the ambiance.  The aim of the website is to tie all this together and display a basic catalogue for online customers, without committing too much time and money until she can see how the business takes off.  To keep it simple we built the site on WordPress.com using the appropriately named ‘Chateau’ responsive template.  We added the domain name and linked it to a free Google apps account to add email addresses.  We looked at adding order forms and Paypal links, but for the moment decided to keep it really simple, and take orders over the phone or by email.  The catalogue  pages are WordPress galleries, making it easy to swap out the photos as new chocolates are added to the range.  The shopping cart can wait until Madame Chocolat goes global!

Like chocolate and live near Hebden Bridge? > then keep an eye on Shabby Chocolat, as they’ve got a few exciting plans for the summer!

New website for Paul Cowham

Paul has just set up his own accountancy business and this is his new website: Paul Cowham Accountancy. Previously a director with Slade & Cooper, he specialises in charity and social enterprise accounting, and works both from home and the Green Fish Resource Centre in Manchester City Centre.  Get in touch with Paul via his website here. It is a straightforward WordPress  website, which can easily grow and develop along with his business.

Your Garden Needs Me!

Website redesigned, landscaped, planted and repotted…
Your Garden Needs Me is a gardening and garden maintenance service based in Todmorden. Richard already made good use of the free services, with a (messy) free web page, Facebook page, Twitter persona > @nakedjardinier, and a blog. What was needed was a practical, cheap and cheerful way to pull it all together, with a recognisable visual style, so that it can all be found through the website. Based on the green and yellow design of his leaflet, the new website is squishy, so it resizes nicely between phones and wide screens, and uses lots of colourful photos – most snapped with an iphone – to describe the gardening possibilities and show Richard at work. If you’re into gardening, or just like reading about it, then follow Richard’s blog for Ken Yate’s monthly diary of things to do in the garden (now in month 2!) And if you need any gardening or landscaping work done and live in the area, then phone Richard on 07876557234  Your Garden Needs Me!

Wai Yin Chinese Women Society – new website

Launched just before Christmas, this is a major overhaul for Wai Yin’s website, to streamline it, simplify it, and make it easier to maintain and keep up to date.  As an organisation that is constantly changing, it needs to be easy to change the structure and add new sections. Staff also want to be able to update front page news items, and add training courses quickly and painlessly, and so we’ve used the facility to login to the website from the front to edit some of the areas with a reasonably straightforward email-like editor.

Why Joomla 1.7 for this website? I started out choosing (the short-lived) Joomla 1.6 for this project, because of the added functionality for user and permissions management.  It was soon upgraded, and I’m looking forward to the ability to keep the Joomla software up-to-date much more smoothly, and also watching developments in multi-langauge capabilities.

Have a look > Wai Yin Chinese Women Society

New website – Global Labour Institute UK

Straightforward new WordPress site for Global Labour Institute UK, one of a trio of organisations that make up the Global Labour Network.  One aspect of the site is the development of a reliable mailing list, so that subscribers can be informed by email whenever an article or news item is posted to the website that is of special interest.

GLI UK develop and encourage education, capacity-building and research on international labour movement development, gender policy and organising strategies.