Recent work
Abbey of the Arts
Christine's Abbey of the Arts website needed a new look. It had also outgrown its old page structure.
So we freshened up the design, and created a new structure with more space for new growth.
The Guild of Photographers
"WOW…WOW…WOW!!! 110% spot on!"
The Guild had an old website which they wanted to overhaul, expand, and freshen up – but it had a custom-developed members directory which they wanted to keep.
The solution – a new WordPress installation, with members' area, forum, and shiny new design, right alongside the old directory (which we gave a makeover so it didn't feel left out.)
Your Nisaba
"If you are being held back by a poor website, or need one from scratch, I couldn't recommend this more highly."
Your Nisaba is the site of my copywriter colleage, Emma Newman. The site is built with my part-custom website package. Part-custom sites are created from a pre-designed template, and customised with colour scheme and header image. It's a bit like part-baked bread – most of the hard work's already been done, but we finish it off to make it fresh! If you need a site in a hurry, or on a budget, they're a great option.
You can see more examples of my part-custom sites over at the demo page.
Equipoise – Enlightened Exercise
"Fabulous! I love this website so much! Thank you so much for your detailed care."
Equipoise is the site of Lavinia Magliocco, a wonderful coach who sees exercise as spiritual practice too. She combines her expertise in Pilates, QiGong, yoga and ballet to create a unique program for each client to treat their heart as well as their body.
The new site is built with WordPress, so that she can manage and develop it herself, and includes a blog to help her express her unique attitude to exercise. The design uses a range of photos and quotes from great teachers to set the tone.
The Comfort Cafe and Life Spa
"I'm SO IN LOVE WITH you for making it so simple. You are hands down the best designer/ programmer I've ever worked with!"
Jen Louden is a bestselling author, coach and speaker who provides women with the information, inspiration, and tools to create lives they love.
The Comfort Cafe and Life Spa is her latest venture – a membership site where people can find rest and inspiration. Members can download recordings, take part in the month's activities, or just hang out on the forums with other members.
Jen wanted the site to feel like a very cozy place to hang out, and we had tons of fun designing it.
Organiser Publications
"I have been working on a very new project for my company. It is a very new field for me – blogs, twitter, facebook and so on, but I have been guided through all the jargon and technicalities in the safe hands of Emma and Kate who have infinite patience. Their breadth of knowledge and enthusiasm is contagious – so much so that I have commissioned them for two further projects. Praise indeed!!!"
On larger projects I often collaborate with Emma Newman, copywriter extraordinaire. The Organisers are one such collaboration. The Prom Organiser, Wedding Organizer, and Gay Wedding Organizer, are sites offering tips and advice to UK students who are organising a prom and to couples planning their weddings.
Insight Clinical Hypnosis and Insight Emotional Intelligence
James Thirtle is a hypnotherapist, NLP coach and Emotional Intelligence expert.
Being quite tech savvy, he wanted to maintain his hypnotherapy site using html and css, so he asked me for a custom design and toolbox of styles that he could use. I'm pleased to say, though, that I've now sold him on the wonder that is WordPress, and have just built a second, sister site for him – his new Emotional Intelligence site and blog – using WordPress!
Visit the Insight Clinical Hypnosis site
Visit the Insight Emotional Intelligence site
Globetrekker Pilates
Katie Bowes is a wandering Pilates instructor, currently settled in Chicago.
She wanted a super-simple site where she could provide information about what she does. And she loves blue!
The Covent Garden Minuet Company
The Covent Garden Minuet Company perform 18th century dance in full period costume, and are a fun-loving bunch of people who are basically up for anything!
We had loads of fun finding ways to bring a sense of what they do to their website. The design is full of 18th century detail, of course, but we also took some of their drama-lectures on 18th century life and created articles and photo stories, scattered contemporary quotes about the minuet on their information pages, and added some video. We hosted the video on YouTube, which has brought them quite a few visitors who saw the videos there and followed the links back.
Damian Lobato
Damian Lobato is a dancer and teacher of Argentine tango.
Damian's a fan of the movies of De Niro and Pacino, of gothic novels such as Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde and of artists such as Rothko and Munch. He wanted something visually rich, layered, and dark – something more like a painting than a conventional website. So I had a lot of fun layering his studio shots over stock photography of abandoned buildings, dirty alleys, dark rooms, and the like to create something which both had the feel he wanted and showed him in action.