The Managing Director of Creating Causes was recently asked by a friend and former colleague starting up a new business to assist with advice and a basic web presence, we were only too happy to help.

Fault Line Strategies was established by a former Royal Marine Commando to provide private and corporate close protection, maritime and residential security, surveillance, and high value asset transfer services.

Creating Causes helped with business startup advice, and with a basic web presence. This website is a good example of a very first web presence for a busy startup company. In time no doubt the website presence will grow along with the business, for now, a basic 1 page web presence, and email management was all that was required.

See the new website for Fault Line Strategies here.

The restaurant, a retro old school Burger restaurant, wanted a dynamic web presence, tying in with social media reflecting the local nature of the restaurant, creating an online community based around the restaurant.

We created a custom design within WordPress, taking into account the colours and appearance of the restaurant, it’s building, and the existing marketing.

The site can be managed and updated by the staff on site. Further development work may include a dynamic online menu.

See the new website for Garage, Millburn NJ here

Garth Williams has over 20 years experience in the Maintenance Contract business here in Plymouth, Devon – 2009 saw him going alone to secure contracts – big and small, himself. His success is reflected in the rapid growth of the business.

Given the nature of the business – we advised that a website would work well for him, adding value to his growing company, enabling him to add confidence to his current customers, while also attracting and giving an excellent impression to potential future customers, in this way giving him a distinct advantage over his competition.

We advised and developed a simple website for him, essentially outlining his background, services offered, a list of his clients, a and a testimonials section. Importantly, the site also has blog functionality, enabling Garth to add news and images from new contracts completed, and also include other important company news as his business develops.

Our work included not only site consultation and design, also logo creation and we designed and arranged business cards to be printed.

See the new website for Garth Williams, Plymouth Domestic & Commercial Repairs & Maintenance Contractor here

The owners had an existing website that over time, as new technology developed, and their customers social media and internet awareness, they found their existing website was holding them back.

Static websites in this day and age don’t work well with Twitter and Facebook, they don’t allow users in this industry for example work with dynamic online review sites. it’s easy for a restaurant’s own website to be over-run online by a lot of other references to it, unless the website is dynamic, regularly updated, and relevant to the customers.

With this in mind, the new website was created, taking into account their colour schemes, and existing logos. We worked with the owners on every element. The staff onsite can manage the website content, upload new images, and include dynamic news and seasonal offers.

The website was launched last week, with further developments are being discussed, including interactive menus, and online ordering for take-out food.

See the new website for Martini Bistro and restaurant in Millburn NJ.

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.

We have been involved throughout the business development process, designing business cards, appointment cards, the brand and logo, and of course the website.

The WordPress content management system site is simple to update and adapt as the business grows.

For now massages are being offered at very reasonable rates at the Business Centre on Cattedown Road – the same location where Creating Causes are based.

See the Plymouth Business Massage website for more details.

The referral came in through our association with the Protector Services Group of whom both Pacific Capital and Creating Causes are associate members.

Pacific Capital were looking for a more dynamic website which better reflects the growth of the business, and to gain control over admin functions such as adding new email addresses.

Working with their current domain host and website host, Creating Causes negotiated and arranged moving the domain and web hosting to more reasonable hosts. Following on from this we then created a new website which is now live.

Future plans for the website include a dynamic news and blog area to announce new developments and deals for the company.

Jonathan Mitchell, CEO of Pacific Capital Partners is delighted with his new site.

www.pacificcp.com

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.

Living Through Dying - Lupus Documentary DVD Trilogy

Over the course of several years, Roger Hyde of Creating Causes worked with documentary film maker Marcia Urbin Raymond from New York while the trilogy series Living Through Dying was completed.

The project incorporates 3 DVDs filmed over a 10 year period, following Lupus sufferers and their families, and their often inspirational ways of dealing with this disease which attacks the body’s immune system.

A multimedia website incorporating video, blog functionality, and the ability to buy the DVDs directly from the website was launched early December 2009.

See the Lupus Documentary website here, see the film trailers, and buy direct form the site. Also, pass this website link on to any friends you know who suffer from this disease, also their friends and family.

For five years he has developed a very successful business running on Ebay, essentially locating and cleaning up vintage tweed clothing, mixing, matching and products together, then selling them at profit online. His current business is called Style Service – check it out!

He is now expanding into buying new cloth, designing suites, and having them tailored – he’s creating his own bespoke custom tweed clothes line. In time he is also considering moving into accessories, expanding his range etc.

The new website currently under construction will be a showcase for his work, it will serve as a launch pad for all future lines, and it will also be his personal tweed blog – in this way becoming a one-stop shop for all tweed aficionados around the world – of which apparently there are many!

We’re looking to launch in the next couple of months – watch this space for more news on this, the designs for the site currently coming together look very original and fresh.