Strawberrysoup Blog

We are currently recruiting at our Chichester office - and are looking for a talented PHP/XHTML developer to join our team.

You would be implementing client website development projects using a combination of well structured, reusable, modular, annotated code written yourself or open source. This career requires someone to create bespoke websites using our very own StrawberrySystem content management system, and liase with clients on a day to day basis.

For more information on this PHP developer career, click here to download the job description.

Crouchers Country Hotel is an early 1900’s farmhouse which has been converted to house 18 luxury bedrooms in the outside coach house and barn. The main house contains a 60 seat restaurant, bar and two lounges.

This luxury hotel in Chichester asked us to redesign their website as they needed a site that reflected the quality of their hotel. They also wanted to be able to add/edit and remove content themselves so we used StrawberrySystem, our own CMS - which they have found very easy to use and user friendly.

The website uses Javascript to transition between pages, creating an “accordion effect” and an extra level of user interaction. The website uses fully valid code and is search engine optimised.

We have just launched a new website for FitKid - a business specialising in childrens fitness and excercise. The website, which offers the user a new interactive experience has a range of helpful child fitness information and even games that parents can play at home.

As part of the new branding, FitKid have launched the website with a new look which includes their first 4 franchisees. Each franchisee has their own page to display their classes and contact information.

The online shop will play a key role to help FitKid in its mission to help reduce childhood obesity estimated to be 35% by 2010 in the UK. FitKid’s CYQ qualification training and workshops can also be reserved and purchased online, making the courses more accessible to a wider audience.

Nicky, FitKid’s Development Director is pleased with the new-look site. “Through the website, we hope to reach many more parents and children and increase the opportunities for fun fitness activities.”

The website features our own CMS, StrawberrySystem and uses fully valid XHTML and CSS. It also has a full e-commerce shop allowing FitKid to sell their fitness products and games online.

Citrus Clean approached Strawberrysoup back in December last year with one requirement that we have not been faced with before! Take a look at their new website…what do you think the unexpected requirmenet may have been?

Citrus Clean cleaning and maintenance company in Crawley formerly General Cleaning Service has been established since 1974 and is still privately owned. This success has been based on reliability and cost. They have retained many of their customers throughout the years and have now changed the business for the better.

During 2006 Citrus Clean decided to become a cleaning company in Crawley with a conscience. With global warming becoming a every growing concern in our day to day lives, they wanted to show their commitment to the environment and their policy to use where appropriate all eco-friendly chemicals in their cleaning products.

Citrus Clean were keen to become visible on search engines within the geographical area. Strawberrysoup have search engine optimised the new website and will be monitoring progress on the next 3 to 6 months.

We didn’t expect to be doing websites like this - but it was a lot of fun. We were chosen by Bognor Bunny Hotel - a small business offering fixed accomodation for small animals in Bognor, West Sussex when their owners are away on holiday.

It is a simple website giving a brief overview to the services that Bognor Bunny Hotel offer and their pricelist. The website uses valid XHTML and all branding and design was done by Strawberrysoup!

If you are interested in animal accomodation in west sussex, why not give them a call - your pet deserves a holiday just as much as you do!

The Gatehouse Bed and Breakfast is a small and friendly bed and breakfast in Chichester, West Sussex. Originally from South Africa, the owners pride themselves on the level of service that their Bed and Breakfast offers. They approached us as they wanted a website to promote their business.

We created a professional and easy to navigate website site that allowed to owners of Gatehouse B&B to promote their business successfully online and gain some great search engine exposure for and selection of keywords including - bed and breakfast Chichester and accomodation in Chichester. The new site also allows them to take booking enquiries online.

The website was built using fully valid XHTML and CSS. It also features some great photography.

When we started Strawberrysoup, we focused our business around 2 towns - Bournemouth and Chichester - and we focused on getting great online results for our clients in both of these towns.

Now that we are coming up to 2 years old, we feel that we can extend our web design, search engine optimisation and e-commerce services to a much wider audience, and have taken the decision to focus on the whole of the South of England - so if you know anyone in the following towns that want a website, get in touch!

We are initially going to focus on promoting our web design in the following towns on the South coast of England :-

• Christchurch
• Poole
• Weymouth
• Southampton
• Fareham
• Portsmouth
• Worthing
• Brighton

We already have clients in a lot of these towns, so we feel that we should be actively promoting the fact that we offer our service in these towns, not just Bournemouth and Chichester!

This is good timing for Neil! - Our latest website has just gone live and sells a wide range of wedding accessories, wedding gifts and wedding presents, and is called Accessories of Distinction.

Accessories of Distinction approached us to create their new e-commerce website as they had found us on Google, and liked the work that we had done on previous e-commerce projects such as Chic Beauty in Bournemouth and Blush Photography in Chichester.

We have now created a professional and functional website, allowing Accessories of Distinction to sell their wedding accessories and manage invoicing online. The order process from an end user perspective is totally automated, allowing Accessories of Distinction to worry less about the technology, and more about their business. For more information on this project, why not visit our web design portfolio?

Wow - what a month! We are chuffed to have launched our latest website - for US sweet manufacturer Just Born.

We were chosen to create the new UK website for MIKE AND IKE® sweets due to the fact that they liked our pitch, but also as they saw the work we had done previously and because we fitted into the target market of the product – which meant that we could bring ideas/creativity to the table from an end user perspective too.

The new UK website was created following the latest accessibility guidelines and we created all of the graphics/screensavers/desktops in-house. We also used JavaScript and Flash to make the website look more user friendly and animated. For more information on this project, please visit our web design portfolio page.

We are pleased to say that we have just finished creating our latest website - Purple Places!

We were approached by Olives Et Al (the pioneers of “Purple Love”) as they needed a brand new website for their 2007 campaign – so they chose us!

They needed their new website to do a range of different things, including allowing users to register, add their information and upload their photos to their very own photo album. They also wanted to maintain the website themselves, add new content and view member information.

Purple Places now has over 800 registered members including delis, farmers, farm shops and candlestick makers… and have received nationwide press coverage. They are averaging over 1100 visitors a week too! The actual Purple Love Week has not started yet, but their website is showing signs that it is going to be even more successful than the year before!