At the beginning of 2010, the School Governors One Stop Shop (SGOSS) approached Beaver Design with a brand new design concept they had created, for a new website they wanted to have built. As the main resource for would-be and serving school governor volunteers across England, the main aim was to make it up-to-date, easy to manage and feature the most relevant information for the volunteers, schools and local authorities who work with SGOSS.

“We decided our website needed an entire overhaul in terms of design, content and navigation. After a lot of work in-house over a number of months, we came up with a design we wanted and took it to Beaver for them to turn into an actual website.” - SGOSS

The website design was first done in-house at SGOSS, before being given to Beaver to turn it into a reality – in addition to building the new and more user friendly CMS to support the new site...

“Beaver also built a new and easier to use CMS for the site, which we have full control of, enabling us to add content where necessary and make any changes we need to and overall making such process a lot quicker.” - SGOSS

If you would like more information about SGOSS, please contact info@sgoss.org.uk or visit the website at:

www.sgoss.org.uk

2010 is here and the new website for flooring company Yours4Floors has gone live! This brand new e-commerce site, designed and developed by Beaver Design, has given the North London based flooring business a strong online presence to sell their products and reach more customers.

All of Yours4Floors’ products can be ordered online through the site and paid for directly through PayPal. The site uses a clear menu structure to help visitors quickly find what they are looking for and even calculates how much flooring is required, based on the total floor area – so it’s easy for customers to find out how many packs are needed.

As always with new business ventures, a cost effective site was key for Yours4Floors. With this in mind, we created a simple content management system which allows Yours4Floors to add, edit and remove products to the site. This simple system means that the site will stay up-to-date and relevant over the coming months.

For more information and to view this site, please go to:

www.yours4floors.co.uk

Beaver Design has completed a new website for Foila – the advanced hair foil preparation system. Foila helps improve productivity and efficiency in professional hair salons with the Folia Dispenser and Refoil products.

Foila asked us to create them a site which looked and functioned like other high-end, fashion led websites. Like the Foila product itself, we designed a website which is a stylish reflection of their brand. Simple and contemporary designs were put together, along with some modern web features.

Working with the production team from Media 14, Beaver Design also integrated a demonstration of Foila into the website – demonstrating some of its cost saving benefits for salons in a short video.

Form as well as function

The website is created using the latest web design techniques, featuring an online shop, a savings calculator and search engine optimisation. The site also features a content management system, which allows Foila to amend and update the pages as they need to.

With a new, stylish and well designed web presence, Foila has a strong position to help reach their customers and promote their hair salon products.

For more information and to view the site, please go to:
www.foila.com

Beaver Design has recently finished the website for “Back the Boys”, the official PA team for Reading FC at Madejski Stadium responsible for all matchday music, announcements and video screen requests.

The new website features a screen requests page, which gives visitors the opportunity to post personal messages to show on the screen at the stadium. So if people want to see a birthday message, anniversary announcement, etc. – they can simply fill in the online request and see it next match they go to.

The site also features a blog and gallery for supporter news and pictures, as well as occasional polls on stadium events. A simple design with some easy to use features has given Back the Boys a web presence for supporters and visitors to the stadium.

For more information and to view the site, please go to:
www.backtheboys.com

In Northamptonshire, the School Governors One-Stop Shop (SGOSS) chose Beaver to make a dedicated site with its own marketing campaign to promote the need for more school governors in the area.

The site features an editable vacancies list, so that SGOSS can add and remove available school governors’ positions. Beaver created SGOSS a simple CMS (content management system) to allow them to keep this updated.

To view this site, find out more and even become a school governor, please go to:

www.northamptonshireneedsschoolgovernors.com