Portfolio
Holiday bungalow for dog lovers
A holiday cottage website for a dog lover offering accommodation to other dog lovers.
Notable aspects:
- website visitor always knows at a glance which page they are on, even on a smart phone (where a hamburger-style menu is used).
- designed to help visitors quickly find the information they are likely to want to know on this type of website.
- uses a typeface which is easy to read on a mobile phone and looks good on the Web whilst avoiding the performance and usability issues which this often involves.
Services provided: advice on the text and photos that the owner should produce; adjustment of that content, particularly through the positioning of photos, the owner's love of dogs; technically: coding to web standards and associated testing, basic search engine optimisation, and web hosting on romjon.com's server to improve the speed of response of the website.
Playwright and his plays
Playwright and actor David Gooderson's mobile friendly website is aimed primarily at publicising his nine plays.
David's fact-based plays have all received critical acclaim. Hector, his play about Queen Victoria's favourite general “Fighting Mac”, Sir Hector McDonald, was on tour last autumn.
Example search engine results:
- in Google:
- for: woodbine willie play
- result: 2nd. in the listing (out of 226,000 estimated possible results (PDF)). Different now? Read why.
Services provided: advice (via meetings…), accessible web design & coding to web standards and associated testing, basic search engine optimisation, conversion to mobile friendly, domain registration, web hosting on romjon.com server.
Complex of traditional-style holiday cottages in North Norfolk
The new website makes better use of screen space, highlights clearly the distinctive elements of this multiple holiday cottage offering (17 cottages sleeping from 4 to 7 guests, on and off-site, taking/not taking pets), and provides very easy navigation. The design references the client's existing branding.
Notable aspects:
- fully integrated offers managed by the client
- integration of the client's chosen third-party availability and prices system
- some top 10 search engine rankings in a very competitive market.
Services provided: advice, copywriting, accessible web design & coding to web standards and associated testing, basic search engine optimisation, domain registration, web hosting on romjon.com server.
Out-of-the-way château in beautiful setting
To counter the out-of-the-way location of the Château de Nacqueville, the beautiful setting, the history and the possibilities of the local area are highlighted. Comprehensive travel and transport details are given.
Notable aspects:
- key photos change through the year to reflect the current season
- seperate English and French websites.
Services provided: advice, research, photography, copywriting, web design & coding, domain registration, web hosting on romjon.com server.
Traditional Greek holiday cottages, island of Patmos
With this website the owner of these Greek island villas gained an easily accessed and up-to-date online brochure to refer potential clients to in national press and magazine ads. Maps, many photos.
Notable aspects:
- Visitor traffic increased substantially following search optimisation of the website (case study).
Services provided: advice, copywriting, accessible web design & coding to web standards and associated testing, basic search engine optimisation, domain registration, web hosting on romjon.com server.
Note: The work listed above is in order of publishing
date, very largely.
To help to get the most out of the medium, the websites:
- use up-to-date, modern coding (not the less flexible tables-based way)
- use a lightweight coding style
- are near (if not actually) 100% "web standards"-compliant i.e.:
-- validate to XHTML 1.0 strict (latest work)
-- validate to CSS3 (latest work) or CSS2, with fixes for Microsoft's lagging browsers. (Read about Web
Standards: Standards! What standards?)
- and achieve a minimum accessibility of WCAG level A (auto tests) at least, usually. (Read about
accessibility: Accessibility, UK law…)
