www.golden.lv

It was one of my first clients when I started freelancing about 7 years ago. No surprise by now the website needed a redesign (yes, it was built with tables), what I was asked to do few months ago.
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Coming as a late update… www.commonground.se

A month ago or so I soft-launched a new website for Dan Hegelund, an long-time client of mine. This time it was a website for a church in Sweden, where he is currently based.
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We wanted to throw a party for quite a long time, and what can be a better chance to do it than a New Year eve? The perfect cause. And what can be better than a fancy dress party? Said & done!

It was also quite a special celebration, since everyone was from our hometown, back in Latvia and it was such a good fun we can’t remember having anything like this in the last decade. No kidding. Our party people really made an effort to make it a memorable night - from the costumes to the home-made, mostly traditional (yammy!), dishes. And we had whole 2 V’s, both Olegs :)
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Another website designed and built. I told you I’d been busy :)

This time it is a young real estate agency in UK. I was recommended for the job by my ex-boss (thanks for that ;) and it was a very enjoyable ride.

I guess the most interesting thing about this project was the fact that the only form of communication which we used was though emails. I haven’t seen my client in person yet and haven’t even heard his voice:) He lives outside London and was quite busy at that time for initial meetings and somehow this email-only form was established.

Even more Wordpress tweaking, and more functionality in the back-end. The website features a clean and rather minimalist design (I guess this is quite characteristic of me) and was built based on client’s requirements. One of them was presenting property information in .pdf and having a preview on the website rather than posting all the description on the website. This probably wasn’t the best solution ever, but it still made the information quite accessible and also would make it easier for client to update the website with a less risk of breaking the pages.

Hopefully website will be filled with more content shortly. Next week I will be meeting my client (for the first time :) to show him how to make updates on the website though the CMS.

www.everardcole.co.uk

Last week I’ve launched a new website for a music festival in London, Brick Lane Takeover, an event organized and sponsored by Macmillan Cancer Support, a big UK charity organization.

Macmillan maintains a very strong corporate identity on print and in digital, and this was the biggest challenge, when building the website (together with the time constrains, which is a very common thing in our industry). You can have 3 colours, and all of them are… green. Literally. Light green, green and dark green. Not much, huh. The same goes with the typefaces - a very limited number with no chance for variation. No wonder the design went through a number of revisions :)

Hopefully, I have managed to incorporate those guidelines without loosing the very spirit of the event - youthful, bold and loud. Actually, it turned up to be too ‘bold’ and too ‘loud’ - I had made a mistake of creating it on 17” laptop where everything looked balanced and legible, but when we opened the site on a more typical monitor… OMG!! everything was HUUUUGE, so I had to hastily change the size of the most of the graphics on the website. Lesson learned.

The website and its Content Management System were built using glorious Wordpress, an amazing open-source framework, but that does not mean that I hadn’t had my share of banging-my-head-against-the-wall moments :)

Enjoy the website - www.bricklanetakeover.org.uk, hope you will like it. And maybe buy a tickets and go to see the bands live…