It was up and running even quicker than that and has already generated much more money than I charged the club

Have a look at the shop and buy yourself a calendar at www.bristoluninetball.com

Here are some of the links to the calendar in the press:
Daily Mail, The Sun, The Metro

You can view the site at www.stokebishoplunchbox.com

You can see the site at www.shefmansoc.com

Easy to manage site all built into one page allows users to view different event posters with music that matches the poster in the background! www.unevenblonde.co.uk

Visit the site at www.bristolpoloclub.com.

Orbital is the largest student society in Bristol with 1000s of new members every year. Last year I built them a website which was extremely successful, attracting 1000s of hits per month and selling £1000s in the online shop. This summer (2011) the new committee commissioned me to build a new site, based on my original designs and artwork by Fiona McCurdie, but using a content management system to allow easy editing and updating for their large committee.

The main goals were:

1) Easy content management for a large number of users, easy with varying levels of access.

- This was obtained by building the site on WordPress which allows unlimited users with 5 levels of access and a very client-friendly control panel to add/edit content on the site.

2) The site had to continue to look great and have a very clear layout.

- Thanks to artwork by Fiona McCurdie for the 2010 site I had a lot to work with. The designs still use the colourful hot air balloon theme, but with very clear, bold black and white text.
Lots of big pictures and sidebars which contain key information help users work their way around the site as well.

3) Annual updates of committee info and sport captains would be straightforward.

- I have built the site so that each user can update their own profile including their bio, picture, contact details and facebook profile link. When they do so every aspect of the site that references this information is updated automatically. This means that now only one page needs to be updated rather than all 6 pages that include committee or captain data.

4) Facebook had to be even more important.

- A new facebook page and group were added to Orbital’s facebook portfolio. The page is fed into the sidebar on every page of the website and the links to the main group and all the sport team groups are found on a facebook page on the site. All these pages and groups are already coming up on the first page of Google.

5) The site must continue to be top of Google search results.

- It is, easily. Type in Bristol Orbital and the majority of the first page is this site or the facebook links. The only non-official Orbital page on the first page of Google is this page you are reading now and the one I made for the 2010 Orbital site!

Below are some screenshot from various key features of the site:

The package I got UBNC is only £25/year to host with the web address, so a very affordable option for other societies out there!

Here are some screen shots of the site (click the images to enlarge them):

1) This is the home page for bristoluninetball.com. The custom header image and colour scheme makes the site feel tailored to Bristol Netball and the navigation is very clear and easy to use.

2) The News page is a the facebook page’s feed. This means that only one page has to be updated and using facebook means it is a lot quicker and simpler for the whole committee to post news items.

3) The facebook page is crucial to the publicity of Bristol Uni Netball. It also has the most recent photos on there from games and socials. Events can be created through the page to look more official than if committee members created them.

4) The custom google map shows all the locations the club use for trainings and games in Bristol in one map. Directions from any address can be generated by clicking on a location. This was important for UBNC as they have many locations for all their teams, spread around Bristol.

5) The committee profiles page looks good and is very easy to update after AGMs. The email addresses, profile pictures and facebook profiles are all linked in to this page to give visitors the best link to the committee.

6) The clubs youtube page, www.youtube.com/bristoluninetball is a great way to gain more publicity in google and also the easiest way to manage their videos. These can be added to their site with one click and look great to potential members!

Cait’s website is very clean and simple. It relies on striking images and videos to impress visitors, but likewise doesn’t distract from them – the main brief of the project.

She can easily upload new content and edit her site by logging on using anything with an internet connection, vital for a busy student who’s passion isn’t spending hours on a website!

The site was built with WordPress and was built a day before the deadline giving Cait plenty of time to not be able to decide which videos to put up!

Please visit caitlinfw.com and be sure to mention any parts of the site you like when discussing ideas for your own website project!

Here are some screen shots of the site (click the images to enlarge them):

1) This is the home page for caitlinfw.com. The site starts with her select images from her larger portfolio page. The navigation is extremely simple and compliments the bold design of the site.

2) The About page had to be striking. We used a picture from our photo shoot in January to go next to Cait’s blurb. I sent her the link to her control panel and she edited this page to look exactly how she wanted it…having never made a website before! Another happy customer with my easy to manage sites!

3) This is a screen shot from the video gallery page. Poster images were used straight from google images to make an instant gallery. When clicked the videos load in a pop up box straight from youtube! A portfolio of 10 videos can be made in 10 minutes! Videos from youtube or vimeo can be inserted straight into the gallery pages to save upload time and storage space whilst improving performance in search results!

4) Here is an example of a video being played from youtube on Cait’s site.

The site included a very popular online shop, mailing lists and had to incorporate facebook, google applications and multiple user accounts for the committee. Original artwork was also created with Fiona McCurdie.

This site has now been replaced by the new 2011+ version which I built over summer 2011.

Visit bristolorbital.com.

I took a load of new photos for the club as well, just to do the site justice!

Visit the site.