Strawberrysoup Blog

Overline, established in 1995, is one of the South’s leading suppliers of business communication solutions, from start up businesses to blue chip companies. Since it’s inception Overline has enjoyed substantial growth hence the need to redesign their website.

They approached us as they wanted to totally redesign their existing website and create something unique in the telecommunications market. We designed and introduced the theory of a presenter on a few pages that was used to instantly demonstrate the benefits of using Overline over competitors and acts as a hook to entice end users to view more of the website.

Their new website uses our bespoke content management system and is organised in a simple to navigate and logical fashion. This allows Overline to update their new website themselves, without the new to keep asking us to do it -thus saving them money!

The Infinite Horizon specialises in planning bespoke safari trips mainly in Tanzania. Run by husband and wife, Steve and Teena Chumbley who live in Arusha, Tanzania. Steve and Teena have guided safaris in East Africa since 1992 giving them intimate knowledge of Tanzania and it’s people.

They approached us as their previous website looked out of date and they wanted to portray a more professional image for their business, and be able to update their own website - so we worked with Paradigm Design and gave them a great looking website, coupled with our very own content management system.

After a quick browse of our favourite CSS inspiration websites, we were pleased to see our very own website is listed on DesignShack.co.uk!

DesignShack is a very well known resource for both CSS design inspiration and site ratings within the web design world. We have received a fair few visits from interested designers and RSS subscribers so thanks very much DesignShack!

Check out our direct listing here: http://www.designshack.co.uk/design/strawberrysoup.html or check out the screenshot below!

When Travel and Insure approached us to develop a new ethical travel insurance website, we jumped at the opportunity. We have now launched their latest website which aims at providing ethical travel insurance whilst at the same time donating a percentage of the profit to aid projects in the third world.

The travel insurance website is build on the SMARTY framework, with our content management system storing all of the content and giving Travel and Insure a backend whereby they can edit the site content, insurance rates and manage their customer information. They can also run a series of custom reports to compare performance.

The new website has been designed to demonstrate immediately through the use of imagery and colours that the site is related to the third world, and that by buying a policy from Travel and Insure, the end user will actually be making a difference.

Dike and Son is a family business based in Stalbridge, Dorset which started over 100 years ago. Since then, they have had the same shop up until November 2007, when a brand new flagship store with over 10,000 sq ft was built.

We were approached by Dike and Son to create their new website as they had seen the work that we had done previously, and they were impressed by how simple to use and intuitive our content management system was. They can now update their whole website and create new news stories, page sections and upload new documents.

Their new website was launched on Valentines Day and was linked into an offline promotion offering free Valentines chocolates for each email signup that was received.

We have just finished a new website for Poole based diver clinic specialising in recompression services for divers with decompression illness (or the bends) called The Diver Clinic.

As a specialist diver treatment centre, they keep a unique record of the medical problems encountered by divers. Their hyperbaric chambers, based in Poole, Dorset, treat divers transferred by helicopter directly from the dive site. In addition they also treat divers with delayed symptoms.

Previously known as Atlantic Enterprise, the newly branded business is now set for some great online success. The website is built using our very own content management system which allows The Diver Clinic to update any part of their website without having to come to us every time! - thus saving them time and money in the long term.

We have just finished a beautiful new simple brochure website for Gorgeous - an event production company in Chichester.

The brief was simple - create a simple, attractive new website to give Gorgeous Solutions a professional method of contacting and attracting new clients who were looking for event production, event management and event organisation in Chichester.

The website displays important information about Gorgeous including the services that they offer and a method of end users to fill in an email form and get in contact.

We are pleased to report back that our recent NCGE (National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurs) went really well. The turn out of graduates, entrepreneurs and university staff was really good (plus we got free lunch which was a bonus).

We were asked to present for 30 minutes and discuss Strawberrysoup, how we started, what we do and what lessons we have learned over the past 3 years. The feedback from everyone that attended was positive, so we hope that everyone learned something!

Thanks to Rhyannan for inviting us to the event.

As you are no doubt aware, global warming, lowering carbon emissions and being carbon neutral is very important to ensure that our world is preserved for future years. We actively promote greener living and have just launched our latest client site, The Green Store.

The Green Store specialise in carbon neutral storage for businesses around Portsmouth. Their website is a simple brochure website that was designed by Paradigm Design, who asked us to work our coding magic and create a site that was accessible and search engine optimised. The result is a lovely looking website that follows the latest guides in terms of accessibility.

As you know, we love our food (Strawberry based recipes especially) and the brief for Kennel Cottage was simple - create a website that looked visually appealing and that would allow the owners to update it themselves.

We chose to use a wordpress blogging backend rather than our own CMS due to the out of the box potential that an OS blog has, and the whole site was built in a few days, from design to live.

The aim of the website is to upload and share recipes - starters, mains, desserts - you name it - the plan is to have many different types of recipe on the site over time. There is the functionality for end users to give feedback on certain recipes as well as bookmark pages via their social bookmarking tools. The owners also wanted to be able to sell cooking related books online, so we used Amazon and an XML widget to feed in their recommended literature! Very clever stuff…