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Pixelwave Web Design is pleased to announce the launch of the brand new Bird Control Solutions website for Safety Net Services.

Their website is a simple, easy to use brochure style site outlining the services they offer.  Safety Net Services are delighted with the website and I wish them all the best with their latest venture.

Bird Control Website

Pixelwave Web Design has recently started work on a new project for an existing client.

I’ve been working on a couple of their sites for a number of years now having been requested to take over websites originally built by a third party. Such maintenance work is fine, and they have been good clients, but working with old-fashioned, legacy code is never ideal so it is nice to be able to get stuck into a new, modern website for them.

Their new website is for bird control solutions that they are beginning to offer and will be a simple, brochure style website outlining the services they offer and how they can help with any bird infestation or control problems that you may have.

It’s always nice to start on new projects, but especially so when it is for existing clients as the whole process is a little easier and it is nice to know that they’ve been pleased with previous work you’ve done for them. A vote of confidence now and then is always appreciated.

Some friends of mine (and possibly me) are doing a coast to coast ride to raise money for the The Mid Wales Colo-rectal Cancer Fund, The ITU Department and A&E Departments of Bronglais General Hospital.

As well as maybe doing the ride I’ve been helping them with their IT requirements and online presence to help promote the event and spent some time with Sylvia yesterday setting up a free WordPress based website for the event. As well as setting the site up I gave Sylvia a crash course on using the CMS aspects of WordPress and helped with a few other things too.

She’ll be getting to grips with the system and adding content over the next few days so hopefully soon the site will go live for everyone to see No doubt there will be a few tweaks needed by me before it is ready for public consumption but it shouldn’t be too long before it is ready.

Doing work for charity like this doesn’t pay the bills but hopefully it results in good Karma for Pixelwave Web Design and makes me feel good about myself too. Besides, me or someone close is bound to need one of the departments at the local hospital one day (hopefully not too soon) so anything I can do to help is worthwhile.

I’ll let you know when the site is live and ready to see.

I’m pleased to announce that Pixelwave Web  Design has just released a new website for Bedminster Road Garage in Bristol.

It is actually a garage part owned by my brother. They provide servicing and MOT’s for all makes and models of car (including mine when it needs it!). The garage are pleased with the results and hopefully the website will develop over time.

At the moment it is a fairly basic, brochure style website outlining what they do and how to contact them. Getting information for the website from my brother is almost impossible but I’m hoping to encourage him to add more to it over the months. I’d like to see photos and small biographies of the mechanics to give it a more personal, friendly feel. But would also like to highlight the professionalism of the garage by promoting their fleet servicing capabilities and maybe mentioning some of their larger clients – with the clients permission of course.

It would also be nice to add news and information on the sports teams that they sponsor and mention any special seasonal offers that they might have.

Website Design for Bedminster Road Garage

Pixelwave Web Design is pleased to announce the release of a brand new website for Blue Island Ceramics, a Ceramics cafe near Aberystwyth in West Wales.

Blue Island Ceramics is paint-your-own ceramics studio offering a place for people of all ages to go and create something that is uniquely theirs.

Their new website is a bright, attractive brochure style website that promotes their business and provides information on the services they offer.

Website Design for Ceramics Cafe

Pixelwave Web Design has recently started work on a new website for a Ceramics Cafe here in Wales. In fact, they are just up the road from me which is nice as it makes it really easy to pop in and see them and to go through progress with them at any point. Communication is the name of the game and having your clients virtually next door certainly makes that easier.

The business is a paint-your-own ceramics studio offering a place for people of all ages to go and create something that is uniquely theirs. I had worked for the business a few years ago, but it has recently been taken over by new management and they have decided to re-brand and have a completely new website.

I’ve already started working on the design of what will be a fairly simple brochure style website explaining what they offer and how to contact them. After a few small tweaks the clients were delighted with the layout so it is now full steam ahead to produce the website itself. Hopefully the overall design will also be used on printed promotional material such as leaflets and fliers and maybe I’ll be commissioned to produce those for them as well.

I’m pleased to announce that I have recently released a brand new website for Erwbarfe Caravan Park. The new owners of the caravan park approached Pixelwave Web Design abut a year ago asking if I could build them a website that would act as  a promotional tool for the Caravan Park.

After an initial consultation we decided that it would be nice for it to have a personal feel and as the park owner wanted to blog and share her love of the area with the wider world it was decided that in addition to providing information on the facilities available at the caravan park, the website should also highlight places to visit and activities to do in the area and contain a “news and events” section. The news and events section will be updated regularly and used as a weblog for the park owners. It took a while to get the initial content together but once I had it, the website was soon built and is now live online.

The website is designed around an easy-to-use Content Management System allowing the park owners to update the site and the news and events whenever they wish. The finished article looks good, does the job it was intended to and everyone is happy. It has been live for a few weeks now and the recent feedback from my client makes it all worthwhile.

By the way, I’ve had loads of great comments about the site, everyone thinks it looks fab and I’ve already had lots of enquiries from it!  Hope you’re pleased with it too?  Have put your cheque in the post today.

Website Design for Focus on Forestry First

Pixelwave Web Design is pleased to announce the release of a brand new website for Focus on Forestry First.

Focus on Forestry First is a Welsh Assembly Government/EU funded three year project solely for the trees and timber sector within Wales. They approached me in February asking about building them a website.

We had an initial meeting late in February to discuss the possibilities and I then visited their premises in Mid March to discuss their requirements. The original brochure style website they had first asked for had become a website based on a Content Management System and they were also talking about another bespoke database driven website that would become a hub for the business and its partners.

The initial phase of the website development was to be a website based on a Content Management System that would outline the activities of Focus on Forestry First and allow them to add news and events to the site -  as well as edit any other content – as and when they wished.

I had designed, constructed and placed a holding page at their domain within a couple of days and then started work on the site itself. Contact was good and things moved quite quickly and after a few tweaks to the initial design all was approved and the copy acquired. Once the copy had been added there were a few additional small tweaks to be made to the layout but soon all was ready for public consumption and the site went live at http://www.focusonforestryfirst.co.uk on April 20th.

I’m pleased with the final product, my clients are pleased with it and best of all, their visitors are pleased with it too:

People have been using the website and we have received positive reports back so that is all good!

Pixelwave Web Design has just started work on a new website for a professional building contractor. The new project came to me via word of mouth from another client who’s website I have yet to start on! I’m planning on starting his new site later in the year once he is ready to start promoting his B&B business, but in the meantime the builders who are working on his luxury conversion also want a website.

Their website will be a fairly simple brochure style website designed to reflect their contemporary, professional approach whilst working sympathetically with traditional buildings. It will have a clean, easy to use interface and will highlight the experience and attention to detail that the building contractors bring to their work.

I’ve just had a meeting with some clients and shown them how to use the Content Management System on their new website. They seemed over the moon with it but will no doubt be coming back a couple of times for some help as they get to grips with publishing on the web for the first time.

The system is easy to use, but when you don’t really know what to expect and haven’t published on the web before it can be a bit daunting. I shall be on hand throughout to keep them on the right track.

Spirituality Global has been built for a local rector and author who tends to be a little controversial in his thinking and fairly outspoken! He intends to update the site regularly and it will provide a platform for his latest thoughts as well as providing a medium for the  discussion of a wide range of topics. It will also be used to promote his books and plays.