Content Management System (CMS) based Website Design Portfolio

Content Managed Website Designed For 3 Counties Heating, Harpenden, Hertfordshire

www.3countiesheating.co.uk 3 Counties Heating are a family run business of plumbers and central heating engineers operating in the Herts, Beds and Bucks area. Barbara Dicker wanted a brand new website that was based on a Content Management System that will perform well in the search engines. She had a clear vision of a particular design she was after - always a challenge with a CMS based website but the DRUPAL CMS was up for it! The end result was a pleasing design so it was well worth the effort. Drupal is also one of the best CMS systems for search engine optimisation so we are looking forward to some good search engine rankings over the coming months.

"The general feedback I am getting for our site has been very good and we have had a few good leads from it and a number of other enquires too. Everyone I've spoken to is impressed with the site and has said how professional it looks. Some even asked if it was expensive. What we wanted was to stand out from the crowd and be able to compete with the bigger companies like British Gas and Northern Gas Heating. I think we have certainly achieved this with the design. The SEO of course we will have to wait and see. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this site."
Barbara Dicker, 3 Counties Plumbers and Heating Engineers

3 Counties Heating, Harpenden, Hertfordshire

CMS based Website Designed For Modus Operandi Hertfordshire

www.modusoperandimarketing.co.uk  Modus Operandi are a marketing, sales and customer service development company with specialist experience in the hospitality, leisure and service industries.

Ursuline wanted another new website she could manage herself so I provided a Drupall Content Management based web site.

"I wanted a sensible website design and build that would give me maximum flexibility to strategically grow my businesses over time. I also wanted to incorporate SEO into the design and build without paying expensive SEO fees to a so called specialist. Epsilis provided the solution and have built two sites for me that are performing well. Working with Michael has been a pleasure and behind his unassuming nature is a wealth of talent and experience that he is happy to share to improve your web presence and your business. Michael also provides an incredible ongoing support and advisory service and is always available to answer your questions and queries first hand. If you are considering creating a new website or revamping your old site then be sure to seek out the services of Michael Spencer and his company Epsilis"
Ursuline Edwards-Sutton (Director), Modus Operandi,

Modus Operandi, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

CMS based Website Designed For Furnishing Report London

www.furnishingreport.com  A new website to support companies in the home furnishings industry by providing insight and information, including breaking news, market data, opinion and analysis.

Richard asked me to design a website he could update daily himself having had previous experience of using Content Management Systems and experience of preparing images for use on the web.

He had a clear idea of what he wanted his new website to look like. This can be a problem with CMS based sites as presentation options can be limited however most of Richards presentation requirements were possible using the Drupal Open Source Content Management System (CMS).

“Michael Spencer’s knowledge, skill and approachability have proved to be second to none. Content management system driven websites can be incredibly complex, but Michael has followed the brief to the letter and provided a range of solutions that will allow us to monetise our website. We would highly recommend him as a web designer/developer and have every intention of using his services when we launch further sites in the future.”
Richard de Melim, publisher, Furnishing Report

Furnishing Report, Media 3V Ltd, London

CMS based Website Designed For Shine Hertfordshire

www.shinepersonaldevelopment.co.uk  offer a range of Personal  and Professional Development programmes that can help you enhance your life and the lives of those around you.

Ursuline wanted a new website she could manage herself. I demonstrated a typical Content Management based web site to her so that she could see what was involved and we went from there. This website uses the open source system, DRUPAL CMS. Visitors can sign up for courses, a regular club, a newsletter, download tip sheets, purchase gifts and subscriptions.

Shine Personal Development , Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

Content Managed Website Designed For Le Swing Jive Dance Club, Manchester

www.leswingjive.co.uk Paul Forber of Le Swing Jive had a website but was having difficulty getting help when he needed it from the web site designer so he asked me if I could sort out his site and provide a means for him to update it when he need to. This is the result - it is a straight forward Drupal Content Managed site that uses a standard design template.

 "I've just looked at the site , I see you have done your home work, its fantastic, thank you very much ...
Michael once again thank you for your help, you have been a star, after all the problems I have had over the years, you have been the one thats turned up and helped me out, I will pass the word around the jive venues, if any one needs a web site to see or ring you."
Paul Forber

Leswingjive, Manchester

CMS based blogs integrated into The Haymakers Survey Hertfordshire

www.thehaymakerssurvey.com "The Haymakers Survey – a unique and mysterious project about climate change, deforestation, poaching and pollution. Let’s look back 200 years to the industrial revolution. Imagine people like Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth and William Turner deeply concerned about the potential impact of the industrial age on our Earth! What if they met in secret on Christmas Day in 1822 as the Blakeware Set with other heroes from across the world and left us something magical and enchanted – ‘The Haymakers Survey!’ What if a romantic poet from that time, Charles Lamb, recorded everything in his journal." The Haymakers Survey is in fact a novel by Chrissie Daines, a new writer.

This is a very interesting project from the perspective of what Chrissie has set out to achieve as well as what she wanted on her website. ln addition to the normal website pages, there is a survey (using open source software) which has been skinned to match the site design, plus 3 blogs (provided within the hosting set up) used to provide relevant news, feedback and a bonus for people who make it to the end of the "Survey".

In addition Chrissie has been very active on You Tube and elsewhere creating associated materials.

"I'm so glad you are doing my website"
Chrissie Daines

The Haymakers Survey, Ware, Hertfordshire

Search Engine Optimisation on a CMS based website for Promain Hertfordshire

www.promain.co.uk "Promain distribute Industrial Paints and Surface Coatings. Promain are approved distributors for many of the world's leading paint and coatings manufacturers such as Ameron PPG, Sika, Coo-Var, Rustoleum Mathys, Tor Coatings, Classidur, Hempel, Osmo, Anglo, Glixtone, Bollom Intumescent, Marley, Teamac and Akzo Nobel."

Mark French at Promain had just had his new website delivered after a long wait but was a bit concerned about search engine optimisation. He had been told his new site automatically did all the search engine optimisation but he had doubts so he asked me to have a look. The thing about search engine optimisation is that it is mainly about the words on a website and partly about the html code around the words - so automatic search engine optimisation is largely ineffectual unless thought has gone into the words used and the right html code is used in the right places. So there was still a lot to do before Promains web site was effective in the search engines. I provided guidance to Mark and Carol at Promain on how to write effective text content for their products and we made a number of amendments to the way their web site was coded to be more focussed on search engine optimisation. They were also spending a large amount of money on Google Adwords to no great effect so I also showed them how to focus their campaigns more effectively.

Try a few examples such as "Antibacterial Hygiene Paint" or "Driveway Paints" or "Teamac Marine Gloss Paint" or "Offshore Paints" or "Roof Coating Paints" or "Street Furniture Paints" or "Centrecoat Aquafloor"

"We should have asked you to be involved from the beginning then we would have had the job done properly"
Mark French, Promain
"We are really busy now, the phones haven't stopped ringing"
Carol Barry, Promain

Promain, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

CMS based Website Designed For Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre Hertfordshire

www.hertsbic.co.uk. The Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre (HBIC) assists companies through established support networks and well developed industrial relationships. Epsilis worked to a tight deadline collaborating with the Zen Design company to ensure the new web site was ready to coincide with the launch of the HBIC Initiative by Lord Sainsbury.

As well as providing a clear, professional website to make an impact for the launch, content management was implemented into the web site to allow the HBIC staff to update news, events and text on all pages on the web site.

We continue to provide regular updates to this website.

"Thanks Michael for all your help with the website"
Helen Ashby, Communications Executive, Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre

HBIC, Business and Technology Centre, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

CMS based Website Designed For Telecoms Pricing London

www.telecomspricing.com "Tariff Consultancy Limited research, analyse and benchmark telephony, broadband and mobile prices ... focused on pricing and tariff research, analysis and consultancy across mobile operator businesses internationally. The website is the resource centre for information, data, analysis, reports, studies, consultancy, research, symposia and events related to fixed and mobile pricing."

Margrit Session, Managing Director, wanted a new website developed that she could update regularly herself having been frustrated by waiting for her site to be updated by her previous web designers. The website uses the open source DRUPAL content management system as its base, includes a simple implementation of the UBERCART ecommerce shopping software and search engine optimisation modules (try "mobile pricing reports" or "Telecoms Pricing Tariffs Information" or "telecoms pricing information" or "mobile pricing reports"). The look of website is a highly customised.

"Fantastic ... I can update the site easily now ... it even deals with tables!"
Margrit Sessions, Managing Director, Tariff Consultancy Limited

Tariff Consultancy Limited, London

CMS based Website Designed For Bishop Creighton House London

Bishop Creighton House Settlement wanted a cleanly presented straightforward site to support their charitable activities at the community centre and out in the Hammersmith and Fulham area.

To aid accessibility the web site is designed using style sheets for content positioning rather than using tables, all text content resizes with the visitors browser text size settings and the site pages scale to fit the browser window.

All pages of the web site are manageable through our epecentre content management software package.

"I'm really happy to provide a testimonial: I found working with you very helpful and supportive. As you know, we didn't have much IT expertise in-house, and it was vital to have someone who talked us through it in a way we could easily understand. I especially appreciated the support and advice around things like accessibility, and legal issues like the privacy policy. Your response to my hundreds of queries was fast and helpful, and I also appreciated your willingness to make the hundreds of small changes as we went through the process! Thanks for all your help"
Karen Osborn, Director, Bishop Creighton House, London

Bishops Creighton House, London

CMS based Website Designed For Sterry Communications Hertfordshire

We were responsible for the design and construction of 3 versions of the Sterry Communications website over 6 years up to the takeover of the company.

The last version was a complete overhaul of the look, structure and content of the web site. Included in the site upgrade was an implementation of the W3C accessibility guidelines. The web site featured Sterry's product ranges based on supplier and on target markets. New features include news management and management of customer support materials in the form of FAQ's and product manual downloads.

"Since updating our site with Epsilis, we have had a large increase in visitors. This is mostly due to the increased content and regular news updates that can be included through the content management management software. We have recently received a large order from a enquiry generated from the site who researched our company from the website before contacting us. Working with Epsilis to complete the web site has been easy."
Andrew Parmenter, Marketing Manager, Sterry Communications, Welwyn, Hertfordshire and Bredbury, Manchester

Sterry Communications, Welwyn, Hertfordshire and Bredbury, Manchester

CMS based Website Designed For Morrisby Organisation Hertfordshire

Morrisby are leaders in psychometric assessments for career advice and guidance.

www.morrisby.com includes extensive career advice information and multiple search mechanisms to help select careers or further education. The requirement was for a new website design based around a new brochure with a very visual home page and business like internal pages. All the website content is manageable using the standard edition of our epecentre Content Management software

"We wanted a site that was attractive but business-like appearance and allows users uncomplicated access to the many pages of information we provide. Other important factors were that the new site had to be available within a fixed time frame and once up and running, it should be readily accessible and quick to update. Epsilis were selected as the supplier because they were able to meet all the criteria. From a basic outline of these needs, Epsilis quickly understood our requirements and offered a series of design proposals. This included advice on the structure of the site to ensure easy navigation and compatibility with a range of browsers.
The Content Management Consol has proved a rapid and effective system for managing the site. It allows us to make our own day-to-day changes by editing text, changing and inserting tables and images, as required. Routine control of the site remains with us but at the same time, there is telephone support as and when needed. Throughout the project, the Epsilis team have been readily available to ensure the project was on time and to our complete satisfaction. Within days of the website going live, we were receiving compliments on the design, the speed and of course, the content."
David Gould, The Morrisby Organisation, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

The Morrisby Organisation, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

CMS based Website Designed For Tarifica

Tarifica - This is a consultancy web site to advertise and sell information based products such as reports, studies, newsletters. Products can be bought and downloaded online. The client is able to manage the newsscroller, home page text, banner advertising, news stories and press releases pages. Incorporated into the web site is a regular newsletter. The construction of the newsletter, management of the subscriptions and distribution of the newsletter via email is all managed on the web site.

Tarifica, London

CMS based Website Designed For UCI Expo Conference Sites

This is a conference and exhibition series support site. There are 4 events in the annual calendar covered by the site, incorporating UCI, CWM and Colocation.

We developed all the year 2000 and 2001 event sites.

Features include:

• Online Registration with links to the clients event management systems
• Client management of the content including:
  • conference agenda
  • exhibition floorplan
  • pressroom
  • advertising banners
  • news scroller
  • promotions and special pricing in the registrations process
• Private area for people who have registered for the event
• Search of all the other event attendees and facility to email them blindly without giving away their email address
• Facilities to download conference presentations and other event based literature. All this area is also managed by the client.

PBI Media, London

CMS based Website Designed For UCI Awards Ceremony Site

Unified-comms awards - For 2 years running we provided a web site to support this Award. The web site allowed people to nominate companies/products/people for awards. The judges had their own private area to examine the nominations and make their decision. The Awards, the sponsors and most of the copy on the web site was maintained from within the website management area. Tables at the awards ceremony are also bookable through the web site. We also provided a similar web site for the Billing Awards.

The Phillips Group, London

CMS based Website Designed For TPG Training

TPG training - We provided 2 incarnations of this full e-commerce training courses site. It has extensive management functions to allow the client to update most of the site content themselves including all of the course and event details, news scroller, banner ads, FAQ, self test questions and answers, whats new page and links page. It includes extensive discussions group facilities which they can also manage, a private members area that includes course slide shows, a site search facility and site statistics.

TPG Training, London

CMS based Website Designed For Unified-comms Magazine

Unified-comms.com - This is a web site to support a published magazine. It contains extracts from the printed magazine, a sister newsletter (called an Alert) published by email in plain text or HTML format. The client has control over the creation of the Alert, and the distribution and management of the subscribers. The magazine extracts, news scroller, advertising banners, advertising rates links and contacts are all done within the site management area by the client. There is also an archive search facility.

A similar web site was provided for Billing Magazine.

The PBI Media, London

CMS based Website Designed For Telecoms Deal Report

This is an industry news web site based around a regular newsletter. Most of the content is intended to be behind a membership area based on a subscription. All the news and the subscription is managed by the client along with banners, contacts, advertising rates. There is an archive search facility.

PBI Media, London

CMS based Website Designed For European Telecom Directory

This web site is a database of suppliers in the Telecoms industry with a subscription system. The public are allowed a very limited search of the database. Subscribers get extensive access to search, refine and download the data. The suppliers database and the subscribers system is all managed by the client along with banner ads, advertising rates, contacts and the links.

PBI Media, London

Various Conference Sites

Other conference support sites were provided for the Competitive Communications Forces event and the Global Pricing Congress events in 2001.

Within them there is a client managed conference agenda and pressroom. People register and can pay for the event online and the registration process is linked in to the clients back office event management system. The Business Partner Programme BPP is a private area for people who have registered for the event. It contains a search of all the other event attendees and facility to email them blindly without giving away their email address, together with facilities to download conference presentations and other event based literature. All this area is also managed by the client along with site advertising banners.

Phillips Events - Conferences and Events listing site

This is an events calendar web site advertising the full range of conferences and exhibitions run by the client. The client is able to manage all the event details, the event navigation, the calendar, the contacts and the banners themselves.

The Phillips Group, London