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Testimonial from Toby Choules, of Combined Unsigned

January 21, 2016 / / 0 Comments
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News Feed – Initial design concept

I haven’t posted much onto here in a while, simply due to the massive workload I’ve had on. So my time has been more focused on creating websites for clients rather than writing posts on mine (which I don’t mind at all).

Recently I’ve been working on a music-related social network for unsigned artists. Combined Unsigned is an upcoming social network, that allows unsigned artists and producers to post their music, images and other content. The platform also allows users to easily instant message each other, follow each other, and interact in a number of other ways (such as through “Liking” and commenting on posts).

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Profile – Initial design concept

Combined Unsigned has been designed and developed entirely from scratch and runs on an entirely bespoke system. This boosts efficiency, flexibility and security and is something I would recommend for all websites. The site adopts responsive design (mobile and tablet friendly) and utilizes the latest technologies to make the most of the web today. Technologies include HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, PHP and MySQL.

It’s been a pleasure to work with Toby on this project and I wish him every success. Toby left the following kind words:

Everything is amazing. The look, the overall vibe of it, he way it functions, I honestly don’t think anyone could have nailed this the way you have. Great work!

Contact me today about web design and web development.

Koolwan – Chinese Holiday Website

May 21, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Recently, I launched a website for the Chinese-targeted Spanish holiday villa company, Koolwan. This is a fully functional website which has been fully designed and developed bespoke by myself. Aimed at the Chinese market, Koolwan has the following features:

  • Advanced search facility
  • Online booking system with options to add extras to the booking, with on the fly price calculation and a dynamic payment system
  • A bespoke CMS to allow Koolwan to manage bookings themselves, create vouchers, etc
  • User accounts (including profile picture, the ability to view past bookings, etc)
  • Voucher code facility
  • And much more

Yin Wang, Business Development Manager at Koolwan, had the following to say:

James is an amazing programmer.  He is very patient, and always solved any issues along the way very quickly.  I am very happy to have worked with him. Great job!

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I wish Yin and Koolwan the best of luck with the future of their business.

If you’re looking for a web designer and/or web developer, then please get in touch as I’m available to take on more work.

Bespoke is always the best option when it comes to building a website; there is more flexibility, it’s easier to scale as your website grows, you aren’t tied down to the design of ready made templates (which other sites will also be using), your website is more secure, it’s more efficient with faster loading times, and so much more.

Testimonial from Joel Davis, of The Social Ad Team

April 22, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Joel contacted me with an exact vision of what he wanted. He had everything from his logo, to his website, briefed in a document which he had given to me beforehand – which was great in assisting me to understand what Joel wanted from The Social Ad Team website.

I went on to do the following for The Social Ad Team:

  • Logo design
  • Website design
  • Website development
  • Responsive web design
  • Blog
  • On-page SEO
  • Content Management System (CMS)
  • Website analytics

It has been a real pleasure to work with James. He is passionate about his work, responsive, creative and incredibly fast.

This was a bespoke build, allowing for greater flexibility, easy scalability in the future, more customisation, and an overall more efficient website.

Most of my clients’ websites use my bespoke CMS to edit content, publish blog posts, etc.  but I’ve actually trialed something new on the CMS for The Social Ad Team – a new WYSIWYG editor (but a million times better than the others out there). This new content editor allows the client to edit content by simply opening up the live website, clicking wherever they’d like to edit and just start typing. How simple is that? There isn’t even a “save” button as it saves automatically. I hope to use this on all future websites.

Visit The Social Ad Team at socialadteam.co.uk.

I’m available to hire.

Testimonial from Alex Ferguson, of Freight Negotiate

April 2, 2015 / / 0 Comments

I often receive testimonials from clients when completing a job for them – but I never actually post them anywhere in the public domain. So this is definitely something I’m going to be doing more often.

I recently developed a website for a company called Freight Negotiate. Alex Ferguson, Managing Director, approached me with a vision of exactly what she wanted. Freight Negotiate was to be a modern and dynamic platform that allows companies to ship their products around the world by allowing various hauliers to bid on shipments, resulting in cheaper rates for shippers and more work for hauliers.

After various email discussions and a meeting, Alex decided to move forward with the project. When Freight Negotiate launched recently, Alex had the following to say:

I am really impressed with the site and to produce something this good in such a short space of time is phenomenal. It has been a pleasure working with you and I certainly look forward to growing the business with the aid of your web development skills in the near future.

Freight Negotiate launched with the following features:

  • Instant messaging
  • Live bidding
  • Advanced search functions
  • A dynamic payment system (including 30 day credit applications)
  • Free registration
  • Secure SSL
  • Simple shipment management
  • And so much more!

I wish Alex and Freight Negotiate great success in the future.

Client Testimonial from Abel Habte

October 2, 2014 / / 0 Comments

A large proportion of my clients aren’t actually UK based. In fact, you’ll find that most are based in the USA and surrounding areas. I recently had Abel Habte, of The YEP: Young Ethiopians for Peace, contact me. Although living in America, Abel is fighting for peace in the East, and has a large social media campaign currently underway.

At this moment in time, he had a website live which he had created using an out-of-the-box sitebuilder, Mr Site. Abel stated that his original website could be greatly improved upon, and he made it clear that he wanted a custom website designed and developed to the needs of himself and his team. Me and Abel talked, and Abel came to the agreement to chose me to create such a website for him. So, we went ahead with the project and Abel kindly left me the following testimonial:

“Working with James Dowen has made the otherwise stressful and complicated process of creating a website a simple task. I had no prior experience creating websites but he was very patient and was able to break down the process so I could understand. James showed great initiative by including features on the site which I hadn’t thought of. He was very clear, organized, and easy to work with. I’d recommend him to anyone needing a website done the right way, minus the confusion and complications that come with working with site helpers like Mr. Site, for a very reasonable price.”

I’d like to personally thank Abel for his kind words.

Currently, the site contains custom pages and content, a blog, along with a custom developed CMS (content management system) which allows Abel and his team to post, edit, and delete blog posts as and when they need to, via a WYSIWYG editor so no HTML knowledge is required. I am also working on an online store to add to the site at a later date.

Visit the website at http://theblacklions.org/.

Technical: The Black Lions website was developed using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL, running on a LAMP stack.

I’m a freelance web designer and I’m available for hire.

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