recent projects

Lea Seigen Shinraku - www.leaseigenshinraku.com

dotSquared throughly enjoyed working with Lea, a 'self-compassion' therapist based in San Francisco, whose unique therapy has lead to a unique web site full of Lea's personality, warmth and generosity. Lea's blog will run alongside the web site adding insight into her life, thoughts and the processes she believes in.

broc - www.brocuk.com

broc - Beautifully Reconstructed Original Clothing required a creative, quirky, fun and accessible to all web presence to match broc's (and creator Gail Whitney's) personalties. The site offers online booking of courses via PayPal. It's bright, colourful and informative without being too wordy. The site uses images and some video from iStockPhotos where we collated a retro illustrations portfolio for the site.

Craftstone of Sussex - www.craftstoneofsussex.co.uk

Craftstone of Sussex's previous web site was far outdated and unattractive. The company needed a stylish and concise web site to get the message across that these are fireplaces that make a home special immediately a user lands. The result is simple and effective.

First Time Driver - www.firsttimedriver.info

First Time Driver is the creation of entrepreneur David Whitewood. The web site is developed using WordPress to enable vast functionality at a fraction of the price. It aims to provide users with a 'one-stop shop' for everything a first time driver needs to know. It boasts; bespoke searches, email collation, Facebook widgets, theory test practice sign-ups, polls, a Q&A, RSS feed, it's own 'TV' channel (FTD TV) and numerous other user enhancements. In the near future it will have a Driving Instructor Directory with ratings and user feedback options. Watch this space...

Impact Art - www.impactart.co.uk

dotSquared worked closely with design firm Thomas + Trotman and bespoke CMS expert Alex Farran to produce a standards compliant web site with outstanding visual wealth. dotSquared converted the rich brochure of designs into valid HTML and CSS.

The ShowRoom - www.theshowroomchichester.co.uk

The ShowRoom needed a standalone web site to showcase it's varied dance and performance programme. The theatre's performers use masses of visual imagery and it was crucial to include these in the web site's design fairly with each being equally prominent. The end result is a highly stylised, easy to update web site which can be adapted each performance season.

Ben's Butchers - www.bensbutchers.co.uk

Using a WordPress template dotSquared produced a web site to showcase Ben's local, free-range meat and game. The site provides an e-shop within budget constraints which is user-friendly and easy for the client to operate.

Charlotte Shorthouse - www.charlotteshorthouse.com

Charlotte Shorthouse creates tailor made voice coaching courses for individuals or groups. Charlotte is a hugely experienced voice professional, a Certified Master Teacher of the Estill Voice System and a professional opera singer. Charlotte's new web site is a clean, crisp and confident display of her varied talents in a concise manner. The web site has room to grow with Charlotte's work whilst offering a brochure for prospective clients. As always, the site uses W3C validated HTML and CSS.

The Preston Partnership - www.preston-partnership.com

The Preston Partnership are leaders in business training based in Hove, East Sussex who needed a complete web site overhaul. dotSquared won the contract to redesign the site beating of many other contenders and have now completed the project on time and to budget. We worked closely with The Preston Partnership's core team to develop a web site with it's own voice lending itself to the notion of bespoke training for today's many varied business styles and models. The web site uses rounded corners which render across all major browsers yet still use valid HTML and CSS. The web site is, of course, WAI compliant also. Read the case study here (Adobe PDF 120Kb, PDF Help).

Marcia Michael - www.marciamichael.co.uk

Marcia Michael is a well established London based photographer and poet whose web site needed to reflect her very personal creativity with both images and words. Marcia has an enormous talent for story telling so the challenge to display her wares appropriately was set. I used a series of bespoke designs based around a couple of templates and boundary-pushing (literally) CSS to suit the depth of Marcia's stories. The result, I feel, is successful.

Further chosen projects can be viewed here.