Over the last year we have had more and more clients and projects. Even with a small marketing budget we have been very successful. In fact we have had so much work going that this Journal has been left more or less dead as we have been to busy keeping you up to date.
Parts of the work can be seen in our portfolio, but there’s also a lot more not shown. Those are either Intranet solutions, member only areas or print material. The latter is quite a challenge as this is an area of expertise we don’t exercise that much. But that makes it even more fun.
So what does the future bring?
We are already planning 2-3 new websites and are currently working on the details with the respective clients. All the clients already have a website but feel they would benefit from an update. Especially on the Costa del Sol many companies feel the impact of increased competition and a dropping demand. Naturally this generates the need to further push their marketing budget and change strategies. The Internet is one of this areas left unexploited, and is where I come in.
Besides creating web solutions EWD is also planning to release several new plugins and themes for WordPress. Being our CMS of choice these days it feels only natural to share some code with the users. Among the planned releases are our Comic strip add-on, the Accordion category/date menus and also the theme currently running this website.
Can I contribute?
We are glad you asked! Off course you can! By getting involved either by contributing articles about web development and design, or by interacting through commenting you are helping both this site and future development. We hope to make your acquaintance any day soon.
Our development site has been redesigned again. We are now using the jQuery JavaScript Library to get the desired effects. That goes in particular to the various menus on the left and also the image slideshow(s).
The new theme has been named Tranquil Horizon, which is the feeling we get looking at the photo below the main menu. If the interest is big enough we will consider releasing the source (that means you will have to comment on this post and let us know).
In the blog section we have also added the popular comics plugin that we initially created for Blogvaria (below header image to the right).
Instead of the normal widgets in the sidebar we have hard-coded it in order to get it working/looking exactly like we want. We’ve also made great efforts to keep all the code 100% standards compliant. CSS provides complete control of layout and design, which makes future changes a breeze.
The only thing we are still working on is the logo. We are 93% happy with our current one and are still brainstorming for new ideas. We are also more than happy to receive suggestions… [submit here]
Please let us know if you encounter any bugs or abnormalities, as we are eager to fix and expand in the following days.
MT
Thomas
Recently finished the new look for Oslo Fashion House. Their new website can be seen here: fashionhouse.no
The old site was static HTML which made updates slow and inconvenient. It also failed terribly trying to validate as valid HTML which made it incompatible with several browsers (versions).
The fresh code stores all data in a MySQL database which allows for easy browsing and fast updates. In my mind it also made the site more appealing…
A brief case study of what the client wanted and what we did can be found in our portfolio.
