Grant Fieldhouse contacted The Cybermill to create a brand new website for their property consultancy business.
Brief
As Grant Fieldhouse did not already have a website we were tasked with creating one more or less from scratch. The site also needed to be updatable by the client and was therefore built using our own in-house content management system. This would enable Grant Fieldhouse to access the text and images on any given page and update them whenever they wished.
Design & Build
The site takes its colour scheme from the companies branding using a very dark grey, white and orange as a highlight colour. At the client’s request we kept the background and other key elements very clean and straightforward which allowed the content to come to the fore. Each page was designed to showcase the text and images with a minimum of fuss.
Though mainly a static site, it does have some interesting features. The ‘Our Services’ page uses a jQuery (animated) slider, we chose to use a slider on this page to break up the content into more logical sections, we worked closely with Grant Fieldhouse to make sure that this page worked in the best way possible for the user to follow.
The home page uses an image fader, with captions. It also uses a twitter widget. Twitter widgets are a good option for those who want to embrace social media, but do not want a fully functioning blog. They are available free of charge from Twitter and the colours of the widget are also fully customisable to fit with your existing website – all you need is a Twitter account.
