Place of design

This is a website for a wedding and portrait photographer.  We incorporated a secure contact form (PHP) and a slide show on the front page, which the client can update themselves.  Another part of the build was letting the portfolio be really easy for the client to update

Working with the client
We feel part of web design is working with and listening to a client to understand their needs.  In this build, it became apparent the client was pretty OK with FTP, and wanted to be able to update the site herself.  We designed aspects of the site to make this really easy, all the way down to the point of supplying specifically modified slide show template files for Photoshop

The approach to this website was pretty easy.  The client being a creative sort, already had a firm idea on the design and look for the site.  See: www.clairejuliette.co.uk

We followed the clients ideas, chipped in a few of our own and produced this superb compact website.  The client had an existing Coppermine gallery, which we re-templated to suite the site

Hosting woes
Late last year, the clients original web host begun to pull all sorts of strange stunts – for example changing the SQL database passwords without telling anyone and generally service levels dropped.  The client has now migrated to our servers

The migration
We needed to move a SQL database, and a lot of scripts. we managed to do this and just swap DNS servers over at the last moment causing little loss in service.  The migration was pretty seamless

Hosting
Like most of our clients, this site is hosted in our unlimited hosting package – that is unlimited bandwidth, web space, SQL databases, POP accounts, FTP accounts.. you get the idea

The future
We have created the client a lovely new gallery that back-ends onto a e-commerce setup.  We will be launching this fully with the client in the near future.  As the client is a wedding photographer, selling images online is a absolute necessity nowadays

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