June 26th, 2009 by Arcas Computing
We have been asked by a local business, Have Your Cake & Eat It, to provide them with a new website for them.
HYC&EI are a bespoke cake creation business who are just along the road from us and are well-known for creating some wonderful and unique cakes made to client’s exact specifications (no picking from a catalogue here!). They want a site that will properly reflect their business and show off some of the cakes which they have worked on as well as allow new customers to get in touch with them.
Stay tuned for more information on this project!
Posted in Have Your Cake And Eat It, New Projects
June 1st, 2009 by Arcas Computing
We are proud to announce the launch of our latest site, http://www.atlaslettingsedinburgh.co.uk!
The site is for a newly-established property management company based in Edinburgh who wanted a powerful and simple-to-update site on a restricted budget. We used Joomla 1.5 alongside the Hot Properties plugin to achieve this and included some customisation of the basic package including:
- Custom templates for the property pages
- Extension of the built-in fields plus adaptation of the search facility to allow for these fields to be searched on
- Addition of feature whereby the admins can choose the rental status of a property and have a “LET” banner overlaid over the images of the property dynamically
- Installation of more advanced contact form with spam checking
Feel free to check out the site and let us know what you think!
Posted in Atlas Lettings, Joomla, Site Launch
May 28th, 2009 by Arcas Computing
We were contacted by the owner of the Oriental Rug Repair Company who wanted his existing single-page site refreshed with a new, more professional look to it and he wanted it as soon as possible!
We worked with him to quickly create a new design, which was an evolution of his existing branding and website, and get his website up and running within a week of his first contact - how’s that for fast?!
View the site here - http://www.orrc.co.uk/.
Posted in Site Launch
May 19th, 2009 by Arcas Computing
We have just launched a new website at http://www.dempseysailstheworld.com which is actually one we did for free. Free?! Yes, for free!
The reason for this is that we were approached by Craig, who is about to embark on a solo circumnavigation of the world and all in the name of charity. He contacted us to see if we would help him in creating a simple website for his project and we did one better than that by providing him with a fully-featured content managed site that allows him to post to a blog we set up on the site for him from whereever he might be in the world (and, considering what he is doing, that could be anywhere!)
The site also allows people to donate to him as well as get in touch with him with messages of support and well-wishes.
You can view the site at http://www.dempseysailstheworld.com - good luck to Craig!
Posted in Charity, Joomla, Site Launch
May 15th, 2009 by Arcas Computing
We were approached by the owner of a new gourmet kebab shop opening in Edinburgh to provide them with an updateable website on a tight budget and very tight timescale and we were only too happy to oblige!
The customer provided us with the site design/layout which allowed us to create the site more quickly and from start to finish the entire project took around 7 working days (including revisions and launch). The site features their menus and details of the restaurant as well as a contact form to allow customers to get in touch.
Check it out here - http://www.gourmetkebabs.com/
Posted in Joomla, Site Launch
May 7th, 2009 by Arcas Computing
We were approached by the managing director of a new business, Strang Steel Property Search, to provide him with a website which would give information on his services and allow potential clients to contact him about them as well as allow him to quickly and easily update the content of the website himself. His budget was tight but he wanted a site which would do everything that the needed to and so of course we turned to the wonderful Joomla 1.5 open source content management system!
The site took less than 4 weeks from start to finish and you can see the results here - http://www.strangsteelproperty.co.uk/.
Posted in Site Launch, Strang Steel Property Search
April 26th, 2009 by Arcas Computing
In one of our biggest site launches to date we are proud to present the brand-new website for the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)!
Based upon the Joomla 1.5 CMS, this site not only features a large number of pages which give details on the organisation’s conferences and courses but also allows people to book their place on those courses online as well as to join the organisation via the website. In addition it features a fully-comprehensive ecommerce system (based upon the Virtuemart plugin) which allows them to sell their Understanding Medical Education series of booklets via the site. Here’s the full list of features:
- Advanced forms for allowing site visitors to register for conferences and courses including one with custom javascript code to calculate the total they are due. All form data is stored in the database as well as being emailed to the site admins
- Online payment processing by Worldpay for both booking forms (members and courses) and the ecommerce system
- Fully-featured ecommerce system with custom postal rates and charges and an easy-to-track order process
- Abstract submission forms which allow users to upload their own documents which are then emailed to site admins
- A search facility which indexes PDFs as well as all site content and includes the relevant results in any searches performed
This site is a great example of how you can quickly and easily build a very powerful site by using Joomla and its various plugins. If you like the sound of the features we have listed here or would like to find out more then feel free to get in touch with us about it!
View the site at http://www.asme.org.uk.
Posted in ASME, Ecommerce, Joomla, Site Launch
April 8th, 2009 by Arcas Computing
A more fun site, this time for the wife of one of our officemates who is organising a school reunion for her year and wanted a website to give out basic information and let people buy tickets from.
The site is a simple one-page affair but needed to look fun and interesting to encourage people to go back in time and relive their school days! The site is fully laid out using CSS and features a slimbox popup image and a Paypal form to allow people to buy their tickets as well as a form to let them register their details.
View the site now at http://www.penicuikhighreunion.co.uk/.
Posted in Site Launch
April 8th, 2009 by Arcas Computing
As part of the process of assisting one of our clients, Hot Chocolates, in the search engine optimisation of their ecommerce website (designed by 39 Steps and built/maintained by Work Interactive) we suggested that they start a Wordpress blog to assist in adding more content to their site and gaining more inbound links.
We therefore designed and built a Wordpress theme for them which was designed to look like their existing website and we think we did a pretty good job of it! We installed various plugins to assist in the search engine optimisation including the All In One SEO Pack (to produce nice search engine friendly URLs) and the Google Sitemap plugin (to ensure that Google knows about all the posts that make up the blog and thinks HC have a great site with lots of juicy content!)
You can view the blog here - http://www.hotchocolates.biz/blog.
Posted in Hot Chocolates, Site Launch, Wordpress
March 25th, 2009 by Arcas Computing
A new website for a puppet theatre company based in Edinburgh and putting on shows for kids young and old, the design was brought to us by the client and we built a Joomla-backed website based upon this.
The site has several pages plus we’ve made use of the Forms for Joomla component which means that any time their contact form is filled out it is thoroughly checked first before submission. There’s no nasty CAPTCHA code here, just a simple lookup of the email address to check that it exists before any form is allowed to be submitted - this should hopefully drastically cut down on any spam that they might receive.
The site also has downloadable PDfs of show information and posters - go check it out now!
http://www.flotsamandjetsam.co.uk
Tags: Joomla
Posted in Joomla, Site Launch
