Adding Value to Regatta Website

The official Torbay Week regatta website was one of the first websites that Studio Devon worked on. We designed and built a comprehensive site full of information for competitors and spectators alike.

Members of the regatta team subsequently maintained the site, adding their own pictures and stories as the years passed. This year, we were approached to take the website one step further by integrating in an online entry system to allow competitors to register and pay for their regatta entry via the web.

This presented an interesting programming exercise for us, different from the usual design-and-build work we are normally asked to do. We built a database and a clever webpage which stepped the user through a process of entering their boat details, selecting the races they want to enter and then selecting their payment method.

After an acceptance test by the regatta team, the new functionality is now live on the Torbay Week website ready for this year’s event in August.

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New online shop released

For many years, St Marychurch-based picture gallery Portfolio has been successfully supplying quality prints and canvases to the South Devon public. Recently, they decided to expand their business into the online world with a website from which to display and sell a fuller range of pictures.

They turned to Studio Devon to design and develop the site. We looked at their corporate image and turned it into a stylish web design, backed up by a database to store the online shop and product elements. This allows products to be added, deleted or changed without editing HTML code.  Allied to Paypal integration, the site offers a striking and customer-friendly shopping experience.

Released just a couple of days ago, the Portfolio Gallery website is set to offer a 24-7 expansion of the Portfolio business.

You can visit the website via www.portfolio-gallery.co.uk.

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Mongolia is the next big thing!

OK, we realise that Mongolia is already big, over 600,000 square miles, according to the Studio Devon world atlas. But we are talking economically here, not geographically.

So says Clear Lakes Capital, Studio Devon’s latest client. We have just launched their new website to introduce and encourage people to recognise the potential in this progressive country.

Three weeks was all the time that passed between initial contact and publication of the finished website, and the client was extremely pleased with our reasonable rates as well as our speed of response.

To see the website, and maybe dip a toe in the Mongolian water, visit www.clc.mn.

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History Society looks to the Future

We were recently asked to provide a website for Babbacombe & St Marychurch Local History Society.  This thriving society has a growing membership and is ambitious to attract more people and saw that a website would be an ideal communication tool as well as being a good advert for prospective members.

Their initial brief was for a basic site to allow key contributors to post information about the society and keep a calendar of upcoming events.  Studio Devon realised that a site based on the Wordpress content management system would be an ideal solution.  Not only does it allow society members to write their own content but it can be easily expanded in future, by the addition of plug-ins, to cater for the extra functionality that the society may require as they place more demands on their website.

Set up of the site was very quick, as was the training required for those people who were going to manage the content.  Visit the site here to see the results.

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CMS Website Portfolio Grows

Studio Devon is proud to announce the completion of its second website based on the WordPress CMS tool.

All the Right Notes Logo

The website, for marketing business All the Right Notes, was developed from a standard WordPress template with added bespoke tweaks to give a completely custom look.  This approach enabled us to deliver something quickly and inexpensively, while taking advantage of the wealth of CMS (Content Management System) functionality that WordPress offers.

Good luck to the new business, here’s hoping the website helps to attract lots of new customers!

To visit the new website, click on www.alltherightnotes.co.uk.

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