Website Design Aberystwyth, Wales

It is always good to have a short break and get away from work for a few days, and I’ve not been back long from a 5 day break in the Isle of Man. However as a freelance website designer catching up after such a break always takes a day or two so I’ve been busy wading through a mountain of e-mails and catching up but I think I’m just about on top of things again… Now I could do with another holiday!

A number of my personal sites (Forces-of-Nature, A Simple Life of Luxury and Aber-Cachers) have been updated to keep up with recent opensource developments and updates. There have as always been some updates made to FairiesWorld and a few small additions have been made to Mannerbourne and Beacons Active.

I been tying up a few loose ends on the Slick Active Wear website which will hopefully launch later this week and various other projects that I am in the middle of are still in the pipeline (Intemerate Developments, Aberleri Cottages, Pigs on Weed, Glide Homes and Timberlane Books). I’ve also been frantically replying to emails, writing tenders and quotes and generally catching up on admin.

It is good to have caught up though as I can now concentrate on a few of the ongoing projects and maybe even find some time to work on a few ideas that I have planned for future projects. Despite the hectic catch up period I now feel refreshed and ready to sink my teeth into website design projects once again.

As anyone who reads the latest news articles here at Pixelwave Web Design will know, despite working for clients from all over the world, I always enjoy working for local businesses and organisations here in Wales. I like being able to meet with the people behind the projects face to face, I like serving the local communities and I find it is good for business as word of mouth recommendations tend to work best in the local area.

I’m therefore pleased to be starting work on a brochure style website for a dental practice in Rhayader. The website will help promote the business and provide information and advice to existing patients. Most of the content and much of the design will be based on existing printed promotional material and the site should go live later this year.

One of the most common enquiries I get is to build dating websites for people. Dating websites are big business and with many niche interest dating sites being created many people have big ideas to set up a dating website for their particular niche interests. Pixelwave Web Design already offer several dating website templates through our website template section. These templates are really just the ‘skins’ for a dating website, they don’t contain all of the back-end functionality such as the database to store members profiles and all of the scripts allowing them to interact with the site. In effect the templates are just the aesthetic front-end for a dating site.

The real work behind the scenes is carried out by software designed to provide the functionality required from a dating website. Building such a site would be prohibitively expensive for many people, so I have now added the ability to purchase an off the shelf dating website called PG Dating. There are many advantages other than cost for using a tried and tested package such as this and it saves you having to ‘re-invent the wheel’. The really nice thing about this particular package is that the developer will integrate it with any of the dating website templates, to provide a fully functional and aesthetically pleasing site.

Pixelwave Web Design is hoping to start work on the development of a new website for a local engineering company based in Lampeter, Wales.

RJ Little Engineering specialise in the manufacture of catering trailers and have approached Pixelwave Web Design asking me to build a website that will promote their business and more importantly provide additional information for potential customers.

As yet I know very little about the company or the content of the site but the domain names are registered, hosting account set up and we shall be meeting soon to discuss their exact requirements. I invariably enjoy initial meetings with clients, especially when I can do them face to face. Not only does it get me meeting new people rather than staring at computer screens all the time, but it allows me to get excited and motivated about the new project. It also gives me an opportunity to pass on some of my knowledge and to make suggestions for the website that the client may not already have thought about.

I am looking forward to starting work on this project and already have a few ideas that will hopefully excite my client too.