One of our sites: Baby’s First Calendar
Baby’s first calendar is a company selling a really useful baby product, aimed at monitoring the temperature of a baby’s bedroom, and recording all of the formative moments in the first year. We were approached to take this job on, on a Friday, and we completed the site on Sunday in the same week! We particularly enjoyed working with this site, as it helps support a few charities that are close to our hearts – especially as we now have 2 baby grandsons, and another due soon
The site
http://www.babysfirstcalendar.com
The build
This was a very intense, but fun build for us. We delivered this site in just over 48 hours. We used Wordpress for the Blog, and followed the site template through. The rest of the site is static HTML & CSS, with a smattering of DHTML, JavaScript and PHP. This site has a very simple implementation of e-commerce – which is essentially using a PayPal and Google payment buttons. This is a superb method for sites with one or two products
SEO
We have done a few things to aid SEO in the build. We will be re-visiting the SEO for the site in the near future
Feature list
- Static HTML front end
- Blog – styles to match the rest of the site
- Simple implementation of e-commerce using PayPal & Google Payment buttons
- Validating contact form using PHP for mailing
CSS
We spent a lot of time setting up the cascading style sheets (CSS) for this site. This has provided a uniform framework for user content. Typography was something we looked at carefully. The two coulomb designs, and the expanding rounded corner boxes are all controlled to some extent with CSS
Technologies
This site uses PHP, SQL, DHTML, XML, AXAX, CSS, HTML and JavaScript
Security
We some time securing the Wordpress side of the site. We won’t discuss security details here, but would be happy to discuss the issue as a topic on the phone with prospective clients
Working with the clients
We worked really closely with the clients. The clients were a dream to work with – being really organised whilst providing really accurate and speedy feedback
Client testimonial
I had launched my product at The London Baby Show and distributed many flyers; however due to unforeseen circumstances with my previous web coder, I did not have the website to back this up. The visuals of the site had already been created and I needed a professional web designer to make it all work
I contacted Richard at Place of Design on Friday, we had an in depth discussion, he completely understood my situation, what was required and set about building the site. By Sunday of the same week (less than 48hrs later) my website was ready for testing and we went live
The communication from start to finish was fantastic, I was kept aware of exactly what was going on throughout. Richard also went above and beyond by adding features to the site to make it more user friendly and manageable, even for a novice like me! I would highly recommend Richard’s services to anyone looking for a completely approachable professional; my only regret is that I did not go to Place of Design from the beginning
Danny
Baby’s first Calendar Ltd
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