The Rood Bar & Brasserie in Barrowford, Lancs, has a wildly original look and when they needed
a website as part of a local business community promotion the brief was 'something funky
with movement'. Not wanting to use flash animations and look like every other website
in town we took loads of photographs and used javascript to create a sense of the frantic but
friendly atmosphere in the bar. Viewable with any graphical browser but best with Internet
Explorer v5 or later.
Wedding photography needs a strong contemporary design without
losing that friendly personal touch. Chatty, conversational text
makes all the difference and a wedding day tips n tricks section adds to the sense
of fun. The striking front page of this site (right) was designed to look and work
like a magazine cover and the inside pages feature protected photographs, a matching
'gallery' template for use with Adobe Photoshop, and a wedding day count-down timer.
This Blackburn based engine refurbishment company wanted a brochure style web site to
emphasise the range of work they can undertake - from lawn mowers to buses,
motorbikes to marine diesels!
Abbeydale Associates mixed new photographs with those available from a previous web
site to provide both continuity and a bit of fresh thinking and a hint of humour helps
people remember the site..
Another engineering company, this time in Sheffield. A fairly comprehensive brochure
website covering a wide range of products with a site that uses a space saving drop down
navigation menu and a 'breadcrumb trail'. This lets visitors keep track of where they are and
how to find what they want next. Used very successfully with a pay-per-click
campaign and recently subject to additional work to further improve search engine rankings.
Left: a start-up company dealing in Persian and other middle and far eastern hand made rugs. This
brochure site was designed to be simple and straightforward - and within the budget of a very small
business.
Right: another wedding photography site. An experimental venture - simple and unashamedly romantic.
