For the next few months, I will be contributing to Axis Magazine for their new Web Advice section. Axis Magazine is a high quality, free monthly magazine covering East Hertfordshire, with content focused firmly on relevant, useful local information.

This new Web Advice section will cover some of the basics of having a web presence for your business, search engine optimisation, e-marketing, e-commerce and more.

Copies of Axis Magazine are distributed by hand to selected homes and businesses, with additional copies available at selected venues and supermarkets. The first edition with the Web Advice section is available from the beginning of February.

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Ericsson have recently commissioned Beaver Design to create a user-friendly calendar for their intranet. The calendar displays upcoming corporate events with the year broken down into sections, in the form of a pie graph.

Ericsson is a long-standing client of Beaver Solutions (sister company to Beaver Design) and we are proud to continue the relationship with web design.

A staff member using the calendar can highlight a month for a short bullet point breakdown, or select the month to see each day seperately. When a member of staff finds an event they are interested in, all they need to do is click a link which puts the event in their Outlook diary.

Events can be added direct from event management's Outlook system and managed on the calendar through a CMS system. This friendly, simple and unique calendar gives Ericsson another effective way to communicate with their staff.

The School Governors’ One-Stop Shop (SGOSS) “Fresh Faces” website was a finalist in the Third Sector Excellence Awards 2008. The website, design by Beaver Design, was shortlisted amongst some strong competition, but was beaten by Leonard Cheshire Disability.

The Third Sector Excellence Awards are intended to recognize and celebrate the vital work done by the voluntary sector and the role they play “as the conscience of society”.

To view the SGOSS website, please go to:

www.sgoss.org.uk/freshfaces/

Beaver Design has created a one page website for Grassform Ltd's Protection Mat products. The idea was to give the Protection Mats a space on the web that would provide visitors with all the information they needed, without having to go through the main Grassform site.

This small site solution was done by Beaver to give Grassform the ability to update the page and even duplicate it, should they wish to expand the new Ground Protection Mat site.

It also links back to the Grassform main site, but the specific Protection Mat site acts as to be found easily by search engines.

To view the one page site and find out more, please go to:

www.groundprotectionmats.co.uk

Beaver Design has finished work on another site for our client Rapier Group, who are the company responsible for managing the 1st Pan-Asian Computerised Tomographic Colonography Congress (it just rolls of the tongue!).

The website from Beaver gives attendees a place to register for the event and pay for their place. This system is controllable by Rapier Group via a custom built CMS system. As the conference date gets closer, prices for the tickets auatomatically increase, as pre-set by Rapier Group.

Delegates can log in and register their place, with the system remembering their details on return visits. The site is designed to provide delegates with all the detail they will need for this three day conference and since the event is being hosted in China, the site features both English and Chinese text. In addition, the site has an international payment system from World Pay, to allow payment from the multinational users.

To view the site and find out more, please go to:

www.ctcasia.org