We are looking for a junior PHP/MySQL web developer to work at our office in Oxford. The role is ideally suited to a recent graduate - on-the-job training is available.
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On the road...
John Vaughan Fowler has been covering an average of 93 miles per day in his bid to raise £50,000 for the Roald Dhal foundation by cycling across the Australian desert.
Beseiged by boredom, intense heat, and even the possibility of being mugged by thirsty kangaroos, John is on-target to finish the 2400 mile journey from Darwin to Melbourne.
The Chameleon Arts family of music hire websites is complete!
Chameleon Arts home page
Chameleon Arts Management needed a family of attractive websites that would allow people to search for musicians by genre or artist speciality. Be it for a wedding, party, conference, concert, or any other performance venue, Chameleon Arts wanted to provide easy access to their artists for online customers.
Chameleon wanted a lively home page, containing news, events, a rotating image gallery and a 'special CD offer' area to encourage buying from the online shop. News and events are managed in one place and exported to all three websites.
Other features throughout the sites include a random 'featured artists' area, a similar artists list, and a 'most popular categories' section, based on user hits.
The artists for each site can be navigated by, for example, occasion or musical genre; also, a bespoke search engine was developed so that searching would behave according to user expectations. Each artist's page contains audio samples, video and images which can be heard and viewed via an elegant "lightbox" style window.
Using the sites, users are able to collate a shortlist of favourites, and then post an email enquiry regarding their availability.
It was important that the list of artists - along with their photos, videos, playlists and sound clips - could be easily managed so a comprehensive administration area was provided using the excellent Symfony framework.
Good all-round Search Engine Optimization was also a high priority and this was extracted from the database with user customisation/extension options.
We're happy to report that our SEO strategy led to the Chameleon Arts wedding site reaching page number 1 on Google (using the keywords "wedding music hire") within three months!
For more information please see the case study.
The website viewed on John's blackberry
Do you ever cycle for charity? How do you fancy cycling 2400 miles for charity right across Australia, north to south? That is what John Vaughan-Fowler is going to do.
He asked us to build him a website where he can track his progress and collect sponsorship.
As you can see from the photograph the website even looks good on a blackberry.
For more information please see the case study.
Does your charity need a boost from a website? If so please contact us.
Legal Accelerator website
The purpose of Legal Accelerator is to help businesses find appropriate sources of legal support and to save them legal costs. We were asked to build a website where they could add products and services as the business grows.
The case study gives more information.
Is your business looking for a new website? Contact us today.
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Optimentus website
Optimentus provides exclusive, discreet and specialised coaching and professional development services to board directors, chief executives and top level executive management. They wanted a clean new website.
The case study gives more information.
If you would like a new website then contact us today.