Department 24 - La Rousselie

It all looks fantastic thank you, you should be really proud of your work I
can’t wait for people to start checking it out, its difficult for me to
imagine what more information we could provide. Once again many many thanks for a great job.

Paul Riley
Owner
Department 24
La Rousselie a luxury Villa in the Dordogne, South West France

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Creative Curtains

Hi Ian, I have just done a search on Yahoo and curtains in telford, curtains in shropshire and creative curtains in telford and guess what…. they all came up and our website is near the top!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You really are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thankssssssssssssssss

Nikki Lowe
Proprietor
Creative Curtains

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Eazy 2 Use

Par Excellence - that is how I would describe Ian Blackford and designconscious.com

Why? Simply because he understood the brief and came up with an appealing, well designed ‘easy to use’ website that has not only delighted my wife and I, but has clearly impressed the Editors of Webuser, the internet’s best-selling internet magazine, achieving a 4* rating [out of 5]. [Issue No' 199]. His positive, ‘easy going’ attitude and attention to detail are a credit to him and his company. Would I recommend him? YOU BET

Ian Munn
Owner
www.eazy2use.co.uk

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Frank Harvey Hifi Excellence / hifix.co.uk

Design Conscious and Frank Harvey Hifi Excellence have worked together for a number of years now, and all the time Ian has been professional and attentive to our website needs. With Ian’s help our website www.hifix.co.uk has grown year on year to become an important and integrated part of out business, this has only been possible with Ian’s hard work and dedication.

Frank Harvey
Managing Director
Frank Harvey Hifi Excellence

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Simply Overseas

Now that the work on our re-engineered website is complete I thought it only fair to send you a BIG THANK YOU!

All of us here at Simply Overseas have been very happy with your efforts on our behalf right from the start.

You obviously listened carefully to what we thought we needed and then made some very sound and constructive suggestions in a non-technical way so that even I could understand what you were advising us. It seems to me that far too many in the IT industry assume that laymen such as me understand them when they launch into technical jargon. That just looses me and so they lose our business!

We were also very impressed and dare I say, amazed at the remarkably quick turnaround that you achieved; indeed, I think we held you up once or twice because you progressed things even quicker that we could get further information to you. But hey, who’s complaining? Not us!

Once the new site went live I am pleased to confirm that you have still been there for final “tweaking” and even a few changes as we have had further thoughts. I am sure that this has been just the start of a long working relationship between our companies.

Christopher Morris FRICS FNAEA
Chartered Surveyor, Director
Simply Overseas

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Elite Marine Services

Design Conscious is an excellent web development company and Ian is a delight to work with. The level of support provided exceeded my expectations and the advice and support provided was invaluable in helping me take the online presence of my business forward. I would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending this company as a professional, good value solution.

Monica Daniel
Commercial Director
ELITE Marine Services

Design Conscious .com has been commission again by Elliott Bridgman to create a second website for them then to bring their corporate website into line with it.

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Website URL: http://www.elliottbridgman.com

Website URL: http://www.shropshirenotarypublic.com Client: Elliott Bridgman Solicitors

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The Elliott Bridgman website (as you can see from the archives) had been designed and developed before but Mark Bridgman is now a Notary Public and therefore needed a new website to promote this new service. Working with Mark and Bethany at EBS - a new format and colour scheme was developed for the Shropshire Notary Public website.

Being a Notary Public is an extension of a solicitors services but is something that is quite separate, therefore the Shropshire Notary Public website needed to be hosting and set up as a separate thing, but to give it some grounding and relate it to a bone fide business, the same colours and theme was used again.

Design Conscious .com has an ongoing relationship with Frank Harvey Hifi Excellence to maintain, market and develop the hifix.co.uk ecommerce website

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Website URL: http://www.hifix.co.uk Client: Frank Harvey

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Working closely with the Managing Director, Frank Harvey for many years has produced a tightly integrated website that has streamlined their mail order business. Because of the clever integration with the office systems we have been able to create an efficient order flow process that has cut their workload in half when compared to their previous methods.

The integration includes:

• replication of specific data to and from the web databases
• real time adjustments to database content
• real time updates of product photos and website imagery

This was project to over a year to develop and now is undergoing constant change and refinement.

Website Features:

• Comprehensive navigation or search by manufacturer
• Address auto fill - you only need to enter your postcode
• Credit Card processing is done in the shop and not online for safety
• Order by phone option

Backend Features:

• The ability to tag the the product records to activate options on the website
• The ability to add all the descriptive information about a product into one record - then assign other records to it in a Parent->Child relationship (this is for instances of a product being available in more than one colour etc)
• Datafeeds for Froogle, Kelkoo, Pricerunner, Pricegrabber, Reevoo and other price comparison sites

The development for this site will continue and there are some interesting new features in the pipeline.

Design Conscious .com have recently finished the design and development for elite-marine.com

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Website URL: http://www.elite-marine.com Client: ELITE Marine Services

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The ELITE website is in two parts and was developed very quickly. The first part of the site is for information and services, the second part is the online extension of their in house chandlery. We were able to take the information site from design to live in approximately 10 days and that’s due largely to the organised professional approach of Monica Daniels - ELITE’s Commercial Director. Monica had all the pictures and words ready to go and was able to approve or amend pages on the spot, this made for a very productive working relationship.

Working at a distance wasn’t a problem either - Monica working from her office at Tewkesbury Marina and Ian Blackford working from Design Conscious office in Telford proved that using Skype instant messaging is a smooth and productive way of working. This method of data and ideas transfer allowed the creation of the second part of the site to follow very very quickly. The second part is an ecommerce solution extending the on marine boat and accessory shop run by ELITE.

Again the online shop came together very quickly as Monica was prepared and able to add the information and products herself which allowed Ian to concentrate on the design and function of solution.

ELITE has become a model client for Design Conscious, but equally ELITE are pleased with Ian and Design Conscious, as this is what Monica had to say:

Design Conscious is an excellent web development company and Ian is a delight to work with. The level of support provided exceeded my expectations and the advice and support provided was invaluable in helping me take the online presence of my business forward. I would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending this company as a professional, good value solution.

Monica Daniel
Commercial Director
ELITE Marine Services

Design Conscious .com have recently finished the design and development for moanaboutmen.co.uk

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Website URL: http://www.moanaboutmen.co.uk Client: Moan About Men

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The Moan about Men website is a suite of website scripts, a blog, a forum, a chat room and most recently a profile (facebook/my space) facility that have been designed to fit seamlessly together. The website is a new community specifically aimed at women - and is not all like the name sounds. It’s not a site for ‘men bashing’, it is however a site that allows women the freedom of expression in a safe and control environment. Every step is moderated by the Moan About Men team and abuse is not tolerated.The brief for this project:

• create one website with multiple areas of interest
  blog
  chat room
  forum
  profile facility
• give the admin team the ability to edit the site and moderate all the members

The development for this site is on going and there are many more features planned.