Cotswold Designs
UK > South West > Cheltenham
Web site and Graphic Design Studio in Gloucestershire
Breaking down barriers and Where ideas come alive...
Clients and Projects
Industry Sectors:
Building & Construction, Health & Beauty, Tourism & Travel, Professional Services, Sports & Leisure, Educational, Other, Entertainment
Tends to work with:
Private Companies, Entrepreneur, SMEs
General location of clients: Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Cotswolds, Worcesterhire
Latest Project
Blue Canopy
Blue Canopy's philosophy is to offer a stunning selection of high class Sculptures, Products and Living Accessories for the Home and Garden
What We Have Achieved
Latest Review
24 January 2011
Francis Walker at Blue Canopy
When we at Blue Canopy needed an eCommerce website to sell our designed garden sculptures we were pleased to find Cotswold Designs. This has been proved perfect over and over again with the business that...
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Interview
WWDC:
Describe your company in 5 words.
Cotswold Designs:
”Where ideas come alive...”
WWDC:
Where do you see your company in 10 years time?
Cotswold Designs:
”I have 6 children, they already show signs of a creative nature so i would love them to join me and this exciting industry, perhaps bringing other skills like Flash.”
WWDC:
How was your company name chosen?
Cotswold Designs:
”lol...wish i choose a different name as i don't like to brand myself too one area. We have clients across Europe.”
What We Do?
- Branding
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
- Content and Copy
- Hosting
- Design
Technologies Used:
CSS, mySQL, PHP, (X)HTML
CMS Used:
Open Source
We specialise in Joomla content management software
Company Overview
Languages Spoken:
English
No. of Employees: 1-5
Established: 2007
Joined WWDC: 24 March 2008
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SEO expert:
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Hosting company:
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Cheltenham Racing Accommodation
- Branding
- Hosting
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
We specialise in arranging the rental of quality accommodation in and around Cheltenham especially for the Cheltenham Festival - Gold Cup and Paddy Power race meetings.
Languages: English
Project type: Basic (Static)
Organisation category: Entrepreneur
Industry: Sports & Leisure
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla 1.5
Online Payment System: N/A
Number of people who worked on this project: 2
Technologies used: CSS, mySQL, PHP
Completion date: November 2010 (on-going)
Price: 800 GBP
Blue Canopy
- Branding
- Hosting
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
Blue Canopy's philosophy is to offer a stunning selection of high class Sculptures, Products and Living Accessories for the Home and Garden
Languages: English
Project type: E-commerce
Organisation category: SME
Industry: Entertainment
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla CMS, Ecommerce Virtumart, Product feed into Google
Online Payment System: RBS World Pay and Paypal
Number of people who worked on this project: 3
Technologies used: CSS, mySQL, PHP
Completion date: November 2010 (on-going)
Price: 1200 GBP
Being Human Foundation
- Branding
- Content and Copy
- Hosting
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
The author John S Anderson approached me to develop a website to go along side his latest book The Art of Being Human. John's brief was very specific, he wanted no boundaries constricting the pages and the colour scheme to match his book cover.
Languages: English
Project type: E-commerce
Organisation category: Entrepreneur
Industry: Educational
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla 1.5.20 and Virtumart Ecommerce
Online Payment System: Paypal
Number of people who worked on this project: 2
Technologies used: CSS, PHP
Completion date: August 2010 (on-going)
Cotswold Stove
- Branding
- Content and Copy
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
Cotswold Stove sell and fit contemporary and traditional stoves in and around Gloucestershire.
Languages: English
Project type: Basic (Static)
Organisation category: Entrepreneur
Industry: Building & Construction
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla 1.5.20 with some custom template design
Online Payment System: N/A
Number of people who worked on this project: 2
Technologies used: CSS, mySQL, PHP
Completion date: August 2010 (on-going)
Price: 700 GBP
Ceramics Centre
- Branding
- Content and Copy
- Hosting
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
Cermaics centre had a website but it was very dated. They approached me to re-develop their site and to optimise the site as it was not performing.
Languages: N/A
Project type: Basic (Static)
Organisation category: SME
Industry: Building & Construction
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla
Online Payment System: N/A
Number of people who worked on this project: 1
Technologies used: CSS, PHP
Completion date: July 2010 (on-going)
Think It
- Branding
- Content and Copy
- Design
- Hosting
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
Juliet had an existing website that was built in Flash. The site did not perform well and it was hard to make on-going changes. We redeveloped the site using CSM.
Languages: English
Project type: E-commerce
Organisation category: Entrepreneur
Industry: Other
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla
Online Payment System: N/A
Number of people who worked on this project: 1
Technologies used: CSS, mySQL, PHP
Completion date: June 2010 (on-going)
Cotswold Beauty
- Branding
- Content and Copy
- Hosting
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
Mobile Beauty Therapist based in the Cotswolds
Languages: English
Project type: E-commerce
Organisation category: Entrepreneur
Industry: Health & Beauty
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla and Rocket theme Extensions
Online Payment System: rockettheme shopping cart component
Number of people who worked on this project: 1
Technologies used: CSS, mySQL, PHP
Completion date: April 2010 (on-going)
Price: 750 GBP
Height and Safety Limited
- Branding
- Content and Copy
- Hosting
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
Height and Safety trainers, offering training and courses in health and safety.
Languages: English
Project type: Basic (Static)
Organisation category: SME
Industry: Building & Construction
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla
Online Payment System: paypal
Number of people who worked on this project: 2
Technologies used: CSS, mySQL, PHP
Completion date: March 2010 (on-going)
Cotswold Farm Cottages
- Branding
- Content and Copy
- Hosting
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
Holiday Cottages to rent, let in the Wychwoods, Oxfordshire in the beautiful area of the Cotswolds.
Languages: English
Project type: Basic (Static)
Organisation category: Private Company
Industry: Tourism & Travel
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla
Online Payment System: N/A
Number of people who worked on this project: 2
Technologies used: CSS, PHP
Completion date: March 2010 (on-going)
Sport Connection
- Content and Copy
- Hosting
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
A Sports Gym in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire offering a USP Pay £10 per month then £1 per session.
Languages: N/A
Project type: Basic (Static)
Organisation category: Private Company
Industry: Sports & Leisure
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla
Online Payment System: N/A
Number of people who worked on this project: 2
Technologies used: CSS, mySQL, PHP
Completion date: January 2010 (on-going)
Price: 750 GBP
Consult Graphology
- Branding
- Hosting
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
Graphology, Handwriting analysis, Graphologist, Gloucestershire, UK
Languages: N/A
Project type: Basic (Static)
Organisation category: Entrepreneur
Industry: Professional Services
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: Joomla
Online Payment System: N/A
Number of people who worked on this project: 1
Technologies used: CSS, (X)HTML, PHP
Completion date: April 2009 (on-going)
House and garden
- Branding
- Online Marketing
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Development
Garden Designers and landscapersbased in the Cotswolds, Portfolio website of their work and services.
Languages: N/A
Project type: Basic (Static)
Organisation category: Private Company
Industry: Building & Construction
Content managed (CMS): Yes
CMS Description: N/A
Online Payment System: N/A
Number of people who worked on this project: 1
Technologies used: CSS, mySQL, PHP
Completion date: February 2008
Reviews
When we at Blue Canopy needed an eCommerce website to sell our designed garden sculptures we were pleased to find Cotswold Designs. This has been proved perfect over and over again with the business that our site is generating, especially from the update maintenance that Cotswold Designs are continually carrying out on the site. Cotswold Designs have kept to their word on timescales and costs which is so important, so it is easy for us to recommend this company.
Francis Walker
Peter took my brief and understood it quickly and well. We worked together to build the site to my own needs and the image I wanted to potray; he efficiently made any corrections and edits whilst I was viewing them and worked diligently to complete the site as it grew to be larger than we both anticipated. Apart from one spat we worked together well and he finished the job to my satisfaction in a quick time.
Cotswold designs built my website exactly to my specification and more, there was great communication throughout and plenty of good ideas along the way, my ideas and thoughts were considered in every step and changes were able to be made frequently. Everything was explained in a simple and easy to understand way,
I'm much more confident with making my own changes after having the training which was well worth having. My overall experience of having Cotswold Designs build my website was exceptional and have already recommended them to many people.
My knowledge of designing a website was nil but I was fortunate enough to choose Pete Haken to undertake this project for me. After just one meeting he completely understood what I was looking for and designed a site that was perfect for my requirements and made the whole process both straightforward and clear. I would have no hesitation in recommending Pete to anyone to undertake a project for them.
I have found Cotswold Designs to be really professional in their approach to my business, friendly and willing to help me achieve exactly what I wanted for my web site. I am thrilled with the results and the quick turn around they were able to offer me and have started to get business from it already!
I highly recommend this web design company.
The web design process was fast, efficient and we are very pleased with the results. Each day progress had been made and our ideas were implemented as we wanted them but alternatives were also presented to us. Overall it was a very good experience and we would definitely use them again when it is time to freshen the site.
Very happy with recommending Cotswold Designs to any size business. Excellent comms all round. They made some very good suggestions and really worked all our ideas into the final design. the process was very simple and they spoke in a non tech language so it all made sense from the start. They optimise every page as standard and the seo results were very pleasing from the start.
Work went very smooth from start to finish, very professional and extremely helpful. They dealt with my questions and concerns very quickly. I will be making more changes to the site, but for now it is a great starting point for me in the world wide web. They are very easy to work with and to contact an extremely reasonable pricing.
They worked with so much enthusiasm, I really did not have a clue about this, but they held my hand through the whole process and took it very slowly for me so i understood everything. I thoroughly recommend to anyone.
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Peter haken
Partner
Urban Designer and Web Guru - 3 things about Pete... He loves playing guitar, Urban street photography and wearing Converse
WWDC:
What's your name and position in the company?
Cotswold Designs:
”Peter Haken - Urban Web Guru”
WWDC:
Describe your company in 5 words.
Cotswold Designs:
”Where ideas come alive...”
WWDC:
What's your business philosophy?
Cotswold Designs:
”We believe the best way to communicate with customers is through creative website design”
WWDC:
Describe your office environment.
Cotswold Designs:
”Pro-active, inspired and creative, whitewalls, funky pictures”
WWDC:
Describe how your team interact and work together.
Cotswold Designs:
”Fresh coffee :-) with our daily meeting, with every new client we have a story board style meeting to discuss the best way forward.”
WWDC:
What makes you different from other web design companies?
Cotswold Designs:
”We listen, we like to meet clients face to face, we go that extra mile as we would like to feel that we are apart of the success. Good communication needs to be in place only then can we broadcast your business on the world wide web.”
WWDC:
How do you get the majority of your business?
Cotswold Designs:
”Recommendation and SEO skills. We are pro-active in everything we do.”
WWDC:
Describe how you manage projects from the initial client contact to completion and handover.
Cotswold Designs:
”Meet clients face to face.....over a coffee :-)
Stay in touch by telephone and email
Once site completed and live we meet clients again to teach them how to maintain there own site”
WWDC:
What do you think is the most crucial element of creating a good client relationship?
Cotswold Designs:
”We listen and are pro-active in everything we do.”
WWDC:
How do you manage demanding clients?
Cotswold Designs:
”Coffee...Just bought extra large Starbucks mugs!”
WWDC:
If a client was trying to decide between a shortlist of web design companies, how would you recommend they go about selecting the right one for them?
Cotswold Designs:
”Look at their portfolio of clients and get testimonials from them”
WWDC:
Where do you see your company in 10 years time?
Cotswold Designs:
”I have 6 children, they already show signs of a creative nature so i would love them to join me and this exciting industry, perhaps bringing other skills like Flash.”
WWDC:
Where do you see the web design industry in the future?
Cotswold Designs:
”Technology is moving at such a space....All business's will have to have a website and more business will be done on-line.”
WWDC:
What computers do you have use in your offices, PCs or Macs?
Cotswold Designs:
”Mac”
WWDC:
How was your company name chosen?
Cotswold Designs:
”lol...wish i choose a different name as i don't like to brand myself too one area. We have clients across Europe.”
WWDC:
If you were to give your clients one tip on how to get the most from their website what would it be?
Cotswold Designs:
”Be pro-active ....facebook, twitter”
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