Laptop Spares Website

This site was, a couple of years ago, my first full venture into a customer's site that allowed them to upload stock and sell it from their website. Since then the basic routines have been copied, evolved and updated into many more formats and lot's of other shops.

It also has the ability for the owner to add new sub-categories within the main categories and earlier this year, when he was having problems with postage, I wrote a customised basket (instead of using an off the shelf version), which is now in use in many of my other customer's sites - I developed for him free of charge! Hopefully it will expand in the future to allow clever tracking, offers etc.

The owner puts a lot of effort into publicising his site and values the traffic he gets from pop-under campaigns. He's regularly using them, so they must work for him.

It's a reasonably nice looking site - not overly fancy, but with it being more technical, that's what was caled for.

Oxford Accommodation Website

This site came to me as a referral - by the person who was selling the apartment!

The previous owner suggested to the new owner that I create a website, which I did. I quite liked the site, but the new owner never really had any marketing ideas and thought that creating a site was enough to guarantee bookings 52 weeks of the year.

The real shame is that the site went quickly to a PR5 and stayed there. I never worked out what in particular made it so popular with the search engines, but something did.

What I do notice though is that the previous owner's site was also PR5 for a time, then dropped. So I expect that the previous owner had the site listed in a good directory then removed it for whatever reason, but suggested to the new owner to get listed there. She did and benefitted.

The site has a load of useful functions and she did intend to develop it further into a directory, but seemed to loose interest. The accommodation has got some bookings, but it's not an easy game to be in.

Artist Portfolio Website

Another artist's website - this time a graphic design artist. She had quite strong ideas about what she wanted in the site so it was easy to put together. But her knowledge didn't go to some of the required updates of websites, so that's why she needed outside help.

Not only can she load various differently categorised portfolio samples, but there's also a news feature and latest biography for her to update.