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 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 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)

Visit the sites by clicking these:

Dunblane Lifestyle Estate
“Dunblane offers you the move back to an old-fashioned country existence, coupled with the best of modern living to create the extremely desirable lifestyle that you’ve always dreamed of. Dunblane is situated in the East Rand around a magnificent Equestrian Centre, made up of  133 prime, large stands, dams and breathtaking countryside.”

Dunblane Equestrian Centre
“What better way to spend your time with your horse than in an environment that offers everything you could ask for? From the smallest pony to the most competitive horse, Dunblane has something for you. If you live for horses, you should live at Dunblane Equestrian.”

michaelbain successfully completed a WordPress installation and modification for www.coralstephens.com.

Services provided includes:

• Installing and configuring the WordPress base.
• Live-move of the site from the development environment.
• Utilisation of the michaelbain-developed get-post-image plugin to place thumbnails next to post excerpts on the home page.
• Theme modifications to ensure post excerpt pulled from posts containing galleries do not incorrectly render the gallery shortcodes as displayed CSS text. (This is a WordPress “gallery” bug that inserts CSS text into posts).

About www.coralstephens.com:

“Coral Stephens Handweaving specialises in decor fabrics and rugs woven in mohair, silk, wool, cotton and raffia.

These are used extensively in home, corporate and hotel décor.  Curtaining is our core product, hand spun and woven mohair is something unique and special and has a highly individual and sophisticated look.  We began weaving mohair curtaining more than sixty years ago so are quite practised in it.”

michaelbain, in conjunction with pixelmagic, has successfully established the online presence of www.rockingfuture.co.za.

michaelbain installed a WordPress installation, sourced and installed the appropriate plug-ins and did extensive customisations to the functionality of the theme to incorporate the City Press section of the site.

The Rocking Future Roadshow is the most fun any Grade 12 can have while learning about study opportunities in many tertiary institutions. The Show takes place during school hours in the school hall, and gives Grade 12’s the chance to speak personally to representatives of the colleges they are interested in. Add live music, and loads of prize giveaways, and you have a recipe for loud, informative fun that leaves a lasting impression.

Visit them here.