Essentially Elizabeth is a wedding planner and event planner.  Seh organises weddings, and does on the day coordanation etc..  Elizabeth wanted a really small and easy to use brochure site that reflected her business and personality. The site is visually designed to “the boss’s” exact specification (you have to smile, I am under duress)

The brief
“Make me a site and we stay married…” I joke. Elizabeth wanted a site which explained her packages, and acted as a web based business card. Elizabeth wanted a site she could keep up to date herself, and add pages in a blog type format. More pages will arrive soon (so I have been told)

The design
The site is pretty close to the creative wedding planning stationary. Elizabeth wanted rich colours, and red roses etc.. The site is a simple WordPress blog. We used a fairly standard template and heavily modified it to suit

Feature list
- Customer updatable blog type site
- Contact form
- Comments stripped out of the design
- Security by design
- SEO by design

CSS & Typography
The typography for the site was tailored specifically to match the business house font. The only difference was the character spacing which was tweaked for readability

Cross browser support
By design the site is coded to support and display correctly in Safari (on a Mac + PC) IE,7 Firefox 2, 3 and Opera

Technologies
This site uses HTML, PHP, SQL, CSS and Javascript. The site is based on a heavily modified Worpress installation

SEO
As with all of our sites – the site has SEO built in. For new posts a system is included that allows custom meta information to be added on a post by post basis

Training
I’ve been under training… Whoops, I mean I have trained Elizabeth who is pretty technophobic to use the back end of the blog herself. She will be adding all of her own content as time goes by. This is a testament to how easy a user updatable site can be for the user. For small businesses, who want to add and organise information, the blog type site (with a few design tweaks) is a very powerful tool. This site (place of design) is based on the same platform

If you want to know how easy it is living with a site like this, just call Elizabeth on 0115 845 8953 and have a chat to her about her website

Marlin was also keen to have a secure contact form.  This is provided using a PHP script in the background that handles email.  We produced very simple and effective typography for the site, which although uses a standard browser font, is very readable after we worked the letter and word spacings

Address: www.marlinworldwide.co.uk/