michaelbain

michaelbain has successfully completed a website design and development project for 1.618 Financial Services.

The project met the following requirements:

• An admin interface to manage content and articles easily
• A suitable theme to suit the company profile and image
• Easy to follow navigation
• An interactive contact form
• Facebook integration
• An affordable budget

1.618 Financial Services is an independant Financial Services Company (FSP No. 39927) consisting of independent Financial Planners who are highly qualified to provide a financial solution to individual clients and companies. This solution may consist of any of the Insurance, Investment and Health Care products that 1.618 Financial Services is registered to sell. They are contracted with all major players in the Insurance, Investment and Health Care arena enabling them to give appropriate, tailor-made advice to their clients.

Contact michaelbain to find out how affordable your next website project could be!

michaelbain has successfully developed and deployed a photo-blogging website for the freelance photographer, Jessie Slabbert.

Jessie needed a photo-blogging and journaling platform to use as a showcase for her freelance photography website, SnappedPhotos – and on a tight budget too!

She needed social media integration and reader interactivity as well as an easy way to manage and update her own content: WordPress theming and customisation to the rescue!

The design called for a smart, but not too busy approach so that the website itself does not detract from the real art – her photographs – but still provide a modern, relaxed, yet professional showcase for her work.

In Jessie’s words:

I am all about freelance photography.
SnappedPhotos is all about freelance photography.

Contact michaelbain so that we may discuss your particular needs and tailor-make a solution for you.

michaelbain has successfully delivered a complete website solution for Tartan Manor.

The website features the following functionality and components, all neatly tied together:

• The tried and tested WordPress CMS with which the administrator can manage their own content
• A custom design with an easily manageable image slider
• Featured content area on the homepage
• Social media integration
• News items and blogging
• Visitor commenting and interaction
• An events calender
• Image galleries

Tarton Manor is a fun and dynamic new stable yard, just 4km from Greenhills, Randfontein, a stone’s throw from Maple Ridge and 20mins away from Featherbrooke.

Visit the Tarton Manor site for more information and contact michaelbain to discuss your needs for your website project.

michaelbain has successfully completed a website project for www.hajime.co.za.

Hajime needed:

• The WordPress content management system installed
• A custom theme designed and developed
• Their content transferred
• Their photo and video galleries set up
• Their Facebook page integrated with the website

michaelbain obliged with all of the above within a very short time period and within an extremely affordable budget.

Contact michaelbain for your website, content management and web development needs.

michaelbain has successfully completed a small website project for www.heatherdale.co.za.

Heatherdale Guest House needed a new look and feel, an easy to use content management & publishing platform and some facebook integration.

michaelbain met these requirements by creating and implementing a custom WordPress theme for them.

“Heatherdale Guest House  is an accredited member of the National Accommodation Association of South Africa. We have been awarded four stars by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa. We have 2 Executive suites, 7 luxury rooms and 2 self catering units plus 2 conference / function venues, catering for up to 75 delegates or up to 15 delegates. Facilities include U-shaped, classroom, boardroom and cinema style seating plus executive facilities such as plasma screens, data projectors and wireless internet connections. Our venue allows for outdoor team building activities”.

For more about Heatherdale Guest House, visit www.heatherdale.co.za.

michaelbain (in conjuction with pixelmagic) is happy to present another successfully completed web project.

Rapidwave had very specific style, landing page, user interaction, navigation and content requirements with regards to their web presence and as such michaelbain developed and delivered the following for Rapidwave:

• pixelmagic effectively translated Rapidwave’s corporate identity into a design that was implemented as a WordPress template.
• The WordPress content management system was installed and extensively modified (by way of a custom template and custom plugins) to meet their needs.
• A custom landing / home page was developed (thanks pixelmagic for the design) with JavaScript and DHTML functionality that simply, but effectively gives the user of the site an overview and a jump-off point.
• A custom navigation system (incorporating a navigation bar listing sub sections of the currently viewed page, block-image navigation with remembered history and breadcrumbs) was developed. These were developed and implemented as custom WordPress plugins.
• A custom contact form was developed as a WordPress plugin.
• The site frames in their existing offering where their clients can log into a back-end management system.
• The client can manage their own content without any special skills or tools, online, in real-time.
• All of this was tied together effectively to form a neat and usable user experience.

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michaelbain in conjunction with pixelmagic has successfully completed a website revamp and modernisation project for the two sister sites, Dunblane Lifestyle Estate and Dunblane Equestrian Centre.

The client had a web presence in the form of static websites that they could not update and maintain themselves. Useful functionality like update picture galleries, news items and articles was not possible. They needed  a content management system and a publishing platform with some added functionality and a revamped layout and design to fit their image and marketing strategy.

The following was delivered:

• A customised WordPress content management system with which the client can manage their own content, picture galleries, news items and articles
• An events calendar managed through the admin interface
• A newsletter subscription and publishing service to collect newsletter subscribers and send out newsletters, managed through the admin interface
• Consistent and related (in function and form) navigation, layout and widgets across both sites to tie them together (theme design by pixelmagic)

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