He needed a website which would work well visually, be easy to maintain and update himself with limited computer skills, and importantly, that would work well when people are searching online for their luxury Caribbean Holidays.

The website contains dynamic image galleries, links to local resorts and activities, a booking and enquiry form, and a blog / news section for new offers and seasonal information.

During the creation process, we have been working with the client, so that at launch, he is fully capable of maintaining and updating the content himself.

We’re now working on a website for luxury holiday accommodation he has in Quebec Canada – more on that later.

See the website here for Ancient Grove – Luxury Barbados Villa.

Having trained in Spain at the renowned Caxton College, before completing his studies in IT Application Development, he has been running his web design own business in Valencia.

His technical skills greatly  enhance the years of practical experience already at Creating Causes.

He has great understanding of PHP and ASP programming as well as Visual.net software development.

This combined with SQL server and MYSQL Database administration along with his HTML and CSS skills means he’s a great technical all rounder.

We’re currently working on custom ways to weave bespoke coding into WordPress, creating Apple iPhone and iPad apps, and apps for the new generation mobile phones including Google Android.

Watch this space for more news and developments from Creating Causes…

We had already produced a website for Alex Bradbury, of The Workout Company – an out door fitness provider in Henley on Thames. She is working on this project with her colleague who runs a team building events company, Team Activity Group.

Together they have organized this new event – a 10km race on roads and across country, near Shiplake on Thames. They are hoping for upwards of 500 entrants.

Both organizers have children at Shiplake Primary School, so some of the profits will be donated to them. The other official charity the run supports is Help For Heroes – a charity for the wounded in Britain’s current conflicts.

The website was produced using a customized WordPress Blog theme – Alex and Sarah received tutorials on how to manage and update the website themselves, with ongoing support of Creating Causes.

She wanted her Joomla CMS website updated with text content, new images and new video. The video needed to be compressed and encoded from Quicktime to Flash Video format.

Her site has now also been backed up for the first time.

See the website of Bella Saer here.

Early this year Creating Causes became a partner of one of the worlds leading Green Web Hosting Providers, AISO based in California, USA.

Their servers are powered by solar energy, backed up of course by batteries. It is a little known fact that the IT Industry worldwide emits as many harmful CO2 emissions as the airline industry – see the link and information on our environmental policy page for more details.

Not only are the servers powered by the sun, the cooling system uses innovative and low energy natural solutions using water and air. See more information about these remarkable solutions here.

Creating Causes are proud to be a partner with AISO, and having worked with them on many websites during the previous year with no complaints, only praise for their integrity and quality of service, we now offer a new product for all future clients.

We are offering a discount hosting package – subsidised by us – with every new website design commission. Creating Causes pays to be a reseller for AISO, in this way we qualify for discount packages which are significantly more reasonable than any other regular Green hosting package currently available. Instead of making a markup, we pass this saving directly onto clients, in this way encouraging them to host green.

Clients pay no more than a regular hosting package (often significantly less), and for every new client who chooses this option, it’s one less website taking up server space on an ordinary, polluting web hosting server.

In this way we hope to be a small part of the solution, not remain part of the problem for this world.

Liz Lomax Website

Earlier this year I was approached by New York artist and Illustrator Liz Lomax about replacing her current website.

She needed a website that she could update herself, which would include comprehensive galleries showcasing her amazing art work, that would also incorporate her popular blog.

The new site needed to be optimized for search engines, and incorporate rich multimedia – video and dynamic image galleries, in order to showcase her past work, and in order to be able to show all her future work as well.

Over the summer we worked on the design together, ensuring all sections are completely within her control to edit and subsequently develop herself.

This process has involved numerous tutorials so that on launch, Liz was entirely confident with all apsects of the site structure, and all functions are within her control to edit herself – although I remain on call should any queries arise. I will of course also monitor site analytics to ensure that the search engine strategy is as effective as possible as we move forward.

The site is based on the WordPress blog format, so it has structural integrity. It is hosted by a solar powered web host in California to reduce the carbon footprint of her operation.

here’s what Liz had to say once her website was launched:

“If you’re considering a new website… look no further!

I am beyond thrilled with the new website Roger created for me! He was wonderful to work with, always accessible, extremely knowledgeable and able to solve any problem that arose.

It’s only been a few weeks since the new site launched and already I have seen an enormous increase in visitors worldwide. Thank you Roger!”

Having used Gmail for many years, and Google apps for 2 or 3 now, all my email routes through Google, as well as many clients I have recommended use it.

There are so many advantages for commercial email accounts, hooking in with Blackberries, being able to share and collaborate on docs etc…

But they need to ensure that the dependency and trust they encourage is warranted and deserved. As far as I know there have been several major outages this year alone. If this trend continues, many corporate users, including myself and clients, will be seeking other solutions.

The Business Centre, Plymouth

The brand new offices in the ‘Business Centre’  provide an ideal central location from which to work and meet clients.

The office space also helps reduce the environmental impact of our activities – the office is within easy walking distance of Plymouth City Centre, and with shared space, and resources, in a new environmentally conscious designed building, this move affirms our commitment to creating causes for a better future…

Full contact details are on this page.

Property services manage a large portfolio of residential properties in the Plympton and Plymouth areas, letting the properties, and managing the maintenance contracts on them on behalf of the property owners. They also provide property services – contract maintenance for home owners.

Without a current website, we discussed their requirements and advised them on a suitable new domain name, and looked at various technical possibilities for the new site. We also advised on their current  office broadband set up.

A new dynamic database driven website is currently being developed, for launch by mid October. This new web presence will dramatically increase their exposure locally, gaining them a larger market share in their property portfolio, whilst also pitching them competitively with other property maintenance companies.