Website Development and Graphical Designs

The Wyldes, near Bude, has been the home of multiple award-winning Leopallooza Festival for the past ten years and the team is proud to add a string of unique, high quality events throughout 2017 encapsulating the spirit of the award-winning grassroots festival.

Having been involved in the core team of Leopallooza as the web developer since the beginning, it made it an obvious choice for them to ask me to develop them a website advertising the new string of unique events being delivered to Cornwall.

If you like the clear/simplistic look for The Wyldes, then feel free to contact me via the contact page to discuss your requirements.

As one of Bude’s most unique restaurants, The Barge offers a menu created with fresh local produce but with a twist, providing a relaxing and unique dining experience upon Bude’s historic canal.

I thought this was a great opportunity to be creative with the website design – I wanted to produce something that was unique and innovative. It felt like a no – brainer to make use of the the boat’s characteristics by incorporating wooden textures with hanging ropes to allow a user to distinguish between the sections on the page.

Furthermore, I decided to incorporate a steering wheel navigation bar.  As well as the steering wheel driving The Barge, I wanted to give the perception of it steering your path through the website.

If you haven’t already, take a look – especially on your phone!

Click here to see the website. If you like what you see, click here to get in touch and discuss requirements for your site.

The Deck approached me to design and develop a new website before the reopening of the restaurant for the New Year. They requested that the new website to cover more of the screen regardless of whether they are on the desktop, tablet or mobile whilst still utilising the wood textures they use on their menus.

Although they requested for the wood texture to be used, I felt this wouldn’t be enough to give contrast to the different layers. I decided to follow the rough effect of the wood by using a red brush that draws rough strokes to give attention to certain elements on the website. This got applied to the page titles and slideshow overlays.

If you are looking for a North Cornwall Website Designer, then free feel to contact me using my contact page to discuss your requirements.

As an independent brewery, standing out is very important which is why Bude Brewery approached me to produce a website that was a bit different to that of other breweries.

The main aim of the website was to let the content and quality of the brewery’s products speak for themselves. Combining a Windows 7 style interface with the companies’ unique label designs, enabled me to create an easy to understand interface from the outset and inspired this unique website design. Clever use of space and the simplistic implementation of a tiled navigation, allowed me to place emphasise on the stunning ales named and produced after iconic locations in and around Bude. Small touches of functionality were also added to give the tiles some life, such as the live feed from their Instagram page.

Whether your looking for custom graphics such as the assets you can see in the Bude Brewery designs or a unique website design,you can contact me for any of your Cornwall website design needs.

Simon from Bude Dive Club approached me to take over their current website. Upon some initial research, I found the system to be out of date and prone to security vulnerabilities. The developers of the current system had not released any software patches and thus it was immediately decided that a new website was required.

The new budediveclub.co.uk website has been re-designed and built to improve the aesthetic and user experience. The responsive design provides flexible and fluid page layouts which adapt to a variety of device screen sizes whether on laptop, mobile or tablet.

Due to the lack of high quality pictures, the website has been designed to utilise simple but effective illustration icons, enhancing visual appeal and reflecting the beauty of diving.

You can see the new Bude Dive Club website design and development here: www.budediveclub.co.uk

Mumma Bears is a restaurant based in the centre of Bude offering Breakfast, Brunch or Burgers. However, what makes this restaurant different is the approach to how customers place their orders. In that customers need to place a tick beside each option on the menu allowing the customer to build their burger or breakfast.

After being given a bank of great photography to use by Brownhill Photography, I decided that seeing their work was much more important than reading about it. As a result this became the focus of the website. However, instead of just inserting pictures into a website, I decided to give each image a curve to match the branding of the logo which was also curved. This also gave each image some depth making it easier to distinguish between each of the images.

And lastly, I had to make sure the site was responsive – in that it could resize its image elements depending on the size of the screen the user visits the site on, without losing the clean/curvy image design.

If you are looking for a Bude Website Designer, then free feel to contact me using my contact page to discuss your requirements.

Kylee Marie is an freelance hair stylist operating throughout Cornwall, with an luxury hair salon situated in Holsworthy, Devon. Kylee is an award winning hair stylist,  who hasn’t quite achieved that big gold status. The judges results mentioned that Kylee needed to work on her identify and website which is why Kylee approached me to re-brand her company as well as developing a new website.

Kylee wanted something that would be informative, clear and easy on the eye. All of her previous websites consisted of templates and plugins which make it very difficult to achieve a certain look or define how the site works, affecting Kylee’s chances of receiving  that elusive gold in her awards.

The result of my work is a bespoke website that will help her attract new customers as well as helping her to achieve that national award.  If there was something that wasn’t possible with Kylee’s previous websites, I was able to design and develop the one, exactly to Kylee’s requirements.

One of those requirements was to perfect the little details, such as how you divide the sections of the site – for example the content from the header and footer.  Most people usually just have different backgrounds to give it some contrast. However, I decided to produce some little graphics in the same style as the branding/logo to reinforce the brands identify by designing some flourishes.

All of my existing clients – new or old,  know that if they run into any problems, they can simply give me a call and I will look into the problem free of charge.

If your looking for a Cornwall Website Designer, then feel free to contact me on my contact page to discuss your requirements – big or small.

Having just recently developed a new website for Shades of Bude (their sister company). KJ Bromell, an Independant Builders Merchants in North Cornwall, wanted to refresh their website as well, so I did just that.

The result is a great new responsive site combined with custom icons for each of the pages which makes the website really easy to navigate. Thus allowing the website to be used by any age from young adults to elderly people.

If you’re looking for a web designer in Bude, then call me to discuss your requirements via the contact page.

Sue Read is an artist and painter of the sea and coast in Cornwall, UK. Inspired by moving skies and the various moods of the sea, Sue loves to paint the natural surroundings of Cornwall.

Sue Read approached me to revamp her current website hosted with www.wordpress.com. Upon looking at the current website, I recommended importing all of the posts, comments and pages into the new website. In doing so,  this would allow her Google ranking from the current website to be transferred onto the new website; thus maintaining her  Google ranking as well as having her paintings and posts safely transferred.

From the start, Sue had an excellent vision for the style of the website which was to express that she was a very approachable and friendly painter in Cornwall. Due to her bubbly and honest personality, I decided to undertake some research into a typography that would express this. I went through various fonts until I came across a font that really stood out to me. Sue, agreed and the font was purchased.

After the typography was established, I decided to use a new technique and that was to animate the typography. This was achieved by converting the typography from letters into a vector shape in SVG that would be drawn using strokes. Within Javascript, I then animated the stroke of the SVG logo from 0 to 100% which would then give the illustration that the logo is being drawn across the screen.

Turns out that all the typography research has paid off as people love the style of the website, which is no great surprise as it looks soo good. Check it out.

Here is a recent branding project that I undertook for Steph giving her an online presence on social media and identify for her new business adventure offering services on: nail trimming, cracked heels, thickened toe nails, ingrowing toe nails, fungal infections, diabetic foot care & advice.

Steph will be offering her services in and around the following areas Bude, Stratton, Marhamchurch, Kilkhampton, Morwenstow, Hartland, Woolsery, Bradworthy and Holsworthy.

For your branding/logo design needs in Cornwall, get in touch via the contact page to discuss your logo/branding requirements.