Design and build a website to promote Purity Productions, a local events management team. Based on WordPress the site was required to showcase their growing portfolio, deliver their services and keep regular news updates with a blog system and social media integration including Twitter.

Check out their website here www.purityproductions.co.uk/

Design and build of a comprehensive website for Dunstable Downs Golf Club. The club needed a new website that gave them greater control over it’s content and allowed them to communicate news and important dates to its membership.

The site was built on a full content management system with several unique features such as live, dynamic weather reports on the site and an interactive scorecard that tours visitors around the course.

Take a look at: www.dunstabledownsgolf.co.uk

3 years ago I was asked to put forward suggestions for a quick, personal, update app that allowed a company to put a ‘friendly’ face on their website and grow their social network. I put forward Twitter. At this time they barely had a 50,000 users and was very much in it’s infancy. However, the company in question felt it wasn’t ‘corporate’ enough and shelved the idea.

Moving forward 3 years and Twitter, with it’s few million users, has recently become an integral part of the companys website. This isn’t just a one off. Many companies are now using Twitter to reach a wider audience, to promote their products and increase their traffic. It seems Twittering is fast becoming the new blogging, so much so that the mighty FaceBook has restructured it’s homepage to rival it.

Twitter takes less time to write and perhaps more importantly it take less time to read and with the use of such tools, (FaceBook, LinkedIn, MySpace et al), the possibilities have now been totally realised by many companies, especially in the doom and gloom climate we all seem to be living in today. There seems to be a certain sense of urgency, to be a “part of it”.

But what about good old fashioned blogging? A well written blog will always attract more attention than a tweet. It becomes indexed by the search engines and it’s not confined to a user, it is far more global. The possibilities of using a blog (or blogging platform) when considering a website should never be under-estimated. We have had some great success from constructing sites based around blogging platforms and are continued to be amazed at the development that goes into them. Wordpress in particular is always highly recommended at the Provide Design camp. But now we have many more options/toys to play with.

With the amount of web apps available to web developers a company can reach their target web audience in more ways than ever before. We as web designers, can utilise this time of social networking to create that killer site that really works the way it needs to work as well as look darn pretty.

And that really does make us want to blog more!

The design and build of a WordPress based website for The Badminton Academy. Website features integrated news and blog system (which allows the players to keep their tour diaries up to date online), profiles for all of the players, their results and an events calendar.

The Badminton Academy teach some of the UKs top junior badminton players. Expect to see more of these kids at the Olympics!

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The design and build of a WordPress based website for Marketing agency BigBird. Website features integrated news and blog system with dynamic content through the use of Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript library technologies and Flash.

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The design and build of a WordPress based website for local I.T. company Leaf Technology. Website features integrated news and blog system with dynamic content through the use of Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript library technologies and Flash.

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The design and build of website for countryside land, business and leisure development Liscombe Park. Website features a promotional video and a separate news and blog system. Along side the site an ongoing online marketing campaign is being carried out including regluar monthly updates, blog writing and directory posting.

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… This car belongs to Sam Head – owner of Forge Racing – a TVR Racing team on mission to make their mark on the 2008 Dunlop TVR Tuscan Challenge.

Sam was unbeaten in last year’s series, and had a 100% win record. This year he is back and Provide Design are proud to be supporting him in his efforts to take home some more trophies.

It has not been the smoothest of starts though. There has been mechanical dramas a plenty and one small incident involving a crash barrier but overall things are looking very likely that Sam will be teaching a few other TVR Racing veterans a new trick or two.

Provide Design Milton Keynes have been helping Sam out for 2 years now and 2008 sees Forge Racing furnished with a brand new website, new car graphics (waiting to be fitted) and even the beginnings of their own custom clothing line. We are very excited as if things go to plan Sam will be racing at the televised Silverstone event; PowerNights on June 19th 2008.

Sam Head is now keeping his race diary updated online and has all the details of the season so far:

http://www.forgeracing.co.uk/reports.php

WordPress based website for TVR racing team – Forge Racing. Website features comprehensive image and video gallery + a blog section which is updated by the race driver Sam Head.

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This website is based on the WordPress platform allowing us to keep it regularly updated at the drop of hat, no matter where we are. As such, make sure you check back on a regular basis as we will be posting new projects hot of the press, fresh to your screens.

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