Here is a roundup of Turtlereality articles relating to website design. Design can be a powerful tool for businesses wanting to increase growth and maximise the value of their product offering. We are experts in design for e-commerce, complex web sites and content management systems. It is extremely important to organize data effectively and display it with the right emphasis.
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We are very proud to launch a brand new site for our long term client Toucan Books. The first site we did for the London based publisher was back in 2009 when using stylesheets to control layout was considered cutting edge! The new site is much more sophisticated, using the awesome power of Drupal 8 to make it all look easy.
We've just launched a new site for Wiltshire based tech startup ALDSU.
The site is built using Drupal 8 and features highly structured contents and layouts, SSL security and premium content.
We built Ed Sheeran's first website - so I guess you could say we were partly responsible for his huge success :o)
Elements of the design we did back in 2007 are still in use today. This layout isn't actually what we ended up going live with, but it gives you some idea of where we were going. The finished site even had an e-commerce element, but I don't remember what we were selling - Cd's and mp3's I guess.
Doesn't he look young?
Drupal is an open source modular system, there are lots of modules out there but they are not all as good as they might seem. Over the years we have researched and tested hundreds of modules for different tasks, here are some of our favourites for Drupal 7.
Drupal websites can benefit from a little bit of care and attention to fine tune their performance. Here are some tips for how to speed up your page loads.
It is very important to resize your images before uploading to your website, mainly to save you lots of time.
Back in the days before Content Management Systems (CMS) we used to hard code all the text and images on a web page. We had control over the quality and file size of the images we used. These days the content on most websites is managed by the business owner which can sometimes be tricky especially where images are concerned!
Our latest website launch is for M&B Surfaces, one of our long-standing clients. M&B provide garden and play surfacing products and services (and much more besides) to both the trade sector and retail customers. Earlier this year we made a new website for the retail side of the business playbark.com, an ecommerce website. The M&B website is a brochure and catalogue site to showcase their trade-only offering - so there are no online sales.
When I started making web sites way back in 1996, the internet was a very different place and web sites were very different beasts. It's hard now to imagine that large sites were made of flat HTML files- but that is all there was! Since then, the technology and I have both come a long way, first databases, then CMSs, it's very hard to guess what the next step will be.
We've just launched a new site for The Champagne Academy an august body representing the top 16 champagne houses. The Academy runs annual courses educating the very best in the hospitality industry in the specifics of elite champagne.
The Champagne Academy had a previous site built many years ago using a do-it-yourself system which in turn had generated pages using Flash - a very unsatisfactory situation!
