Web Design for Charities - Portfolio

North Herts CENTRE For Voluntary Service

www.nhcvs.co.uk. North Herts Centre for Voluntary Service (NHCVS) are a Charity who run various projects in the North Herts area. They provide advice on volunteering and funding, run the Furniture Link community project in Letchworth, run the Respite Playshemes in Stevenage, Hitchin and Letchworth amongst many other worthy projects.

Jacquie Hime, Director of NHCVS came to us after some bad experiences with trying to get their website done very cheaply. The website was incomplete and did not allow for accessibility requirements. There were also problems with the hosting and domain set up.

We redesigned and completely recoded the web pages to allow for accessibility requirements and to be more user friendly. We have resolved the issues with the hosting and domains and the site is now up and running. We have recently trained Jacquie and other NHCVS staff to maintain the site themselves which they are now actively doing.

"I am really impressed, I think it now looks really good. I will be showing the trustees on Monday just to see if there is anything they would like to add/comment on. Thank you so much for sorting everything out as I am aware that you had several mountains to climb to get us to this stage." Jacquie Hime Executive Director - North Herts CVS

North Herts Council For Voluntary Service, Letchworth, Hertfordshire

Website Designed For Baily Thomas Trust

www.bailythomas.org.uk. The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund is a registered charity which was established primarily to aid the research into learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability by making grants to voluntary organisations working in this field. They consider under learning disability the conditions generally referred to as severe learning difficulties, together with autism. In this area, they consider projects concerning children or adults.

We developed a web site design from scratch including logo and branding. Disability Accessibility was a key requirement. Included within the web site is a complex form allowing organisations to apply to Baily Thomas for grants.

"At our last meeting the Trustees reiterated how pleased they were with the site and thought it looked excellent! "
Ann Cooper, Trust Manager

The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund, Luton, Bedfordshire

Website Designed For The Haymakers Survey

www.thehaymakerssurvey.com "The Haymakers Survey – a unique and mysterious project about climate change, deforestation, poaching and pollution. Let’s look back 200 years to the industrial revolution. Imagine people like Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth and William Turner deeply concerned about the potential impact of the industrial age on our Earth! What if they met in secret on Christmas Day in 1822 as the Blakeware Set with other heroes from across the world and left us something magical and enchanted – ‘The Haymakers Survey!’ What if a romantic poet from that time, Charles Lamb, recorded everything in his journal." The Haymakers Survey is in fact a novel by Chrissie Daines, a new writer.

This is a very interesting project from the perspective of what Chrissie has set out to achieve as well as what she wanted on her website. ln addition to the normal website pages, there is a survey (using open source software) which has been skinned to match the site design, plus 3 blogs (provided within the hosting set up) used to provide relevant news, feedback and a bonus for people who make it to the end of the "Survey".

In addition Chrissie has been very active on You Tube and elsewhere creating associated materials.

"I'm so glad you are doing my website"
Chrissie Daines

The Haymakers Survey, Ware, Hertfordshire

Website Designed For 4 My Schools

www.4myschools.org "Schools Recruitment and Supply Teachers Support Staff Services - This innovative service is specifically designed for schools and supply teachers and is structured to deliver benefits to schools and children. A non profit distributing business which means any financial surplus is reinvested in the services for schools and children. The service is for the recruitment of permanent staff and provision of supply teachers and support staff and is for use by all schools across the County."

Mark Payne came to me with a logo and a general idea of the design he was looking for, for this new website. The result, a clean, simple design that takes its guide from the logo. The images were sourced by Mark from an online photo site.  The website has been revamped at the beginning of 2009 so that it caters for mulitple regions and can now easily be expanded as the company moves into new areas and a Jobs Advertising mechanism has been built by one of my long standing colleagues - Mark Hudson of www.seventhwavedesign.com

"Brilliant thank you very much - You continue to excel"
Mark Payne

4 My Schools, Chelmsford, Essex

Website Designed For North Hertfordshire Compact

www.nhcompact.org.uk "The North Hertfordshire COMPACT is an agreement between local government and other statutory bodies with the voluntary and community sector to improve our relationship for mutual advantage"

This initiative is run by North Herts CVS and Jacquie Hime, Director, wanted the rather dated website updated in terms of appearance and current web design standards. The colour scheme and logo existed already and the site you see now is a modern, clean interpretation.

"Thank you for doing such a fantastic job you have even made Compact look more interesting which is a skill in itself"
Jacquie Hime, Director, NHCVS

North Hertfordshire Compact, Letchworth, Herts

Website Designed For CNCF Rugby Tours

www.cncf-rugbytours.com. CNCF (Christina Noble Children's Foundation) Rugby Tours is a charity organisation that exists to provide a unique, once in a lifetime rugby experience whilst raising money for the desperate plight of disadvantaged and orphaned children in Vietnam and Mongolia. The teams are made up of invited world class rugby players and they play at the annual Dubai Rugby 7's (Sevens) in November each year.

A colourful web site designed with the teams shirt colours in mind, with lots of different images of famous rugby stars used in the header and footer of each page as well as within each page content plus some movies.

CNCF (Christina Noble Children's Foundation) Rugby Tours, Dubai

Website Designed For Entec Novare

www.entec.co.uk. Entec Novare supply, install and support computer systems and software to business, education and the voluntary sector. The company is skilled in providing specially discounted software to academic institutions, staff and students and to charities.

We have worked with Ian at Entec for many years now and several iterations of their website. The current web site is teamed with an Actinic Online Shop providing full ecommerce facilities which was set up and managed by Ian who is learning the finer points of website maintenance and search engine optimisation. Try looking for "discount software for charities" or "Adobe software for charities" or "discount software for students" in google.

"I was very impressed by the speed that you changed the front page last week. It looks great"
Ian Brown, Marketing Director

Entec, Baldock, Hertfordshire

Website Designed For Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre

www.hertsbic.co.uk. The Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre (HBIC) assists companies through established support networks and well developed industrial relationships. Epsilis worked to a tight deadline collaborating with the Zen Design company to ensure the new web site was ready to coincide with the launch of the HBIC Initiative by Lord Sainsbury.

As well as providing a clear, professional website to make an impact for the launch, content management was implemented into the web site to allow the HBIC staff to update news, events and text on all pages on the web site.

We continue to provide regular updates to this website.

"Thanks Michael for all your help with the website"
Helen Ashby, Communications Executive, Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre

HBIC, Business and Technology Centre, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Bottomless Coffee Pot Productions - Molly's Story

www.bottomlesscoffeepot.co.uk. Hertfordshire’s PODs, perform Molly’s Story, 29th September, at The Queen Mother Theatre, Hitchin. All proceeds going to the charity CHILDREN IN CRISIS. Molly’s Story interweaves in song the heartbreak of dying love and blossoming of new with a compelling evening of dance, music, monologue and popular musical songs.

A simple charitable site with some simple graphics to advertise this local charity event.

Bottomless Coffee Pot Productions, Baldock, Hertfordshire

Website Designed For Galileo Masters

www.galileomasters.co.uk. Galileo Masters UK SatNav Challenge is an industry lead programme aimed at entrepreneurs, academics, researchers and corporates and offers them all an opportunity to submit their ideas and concepts on how they could take advantage of the latest developments in SATELLITE NAVIGATION

Galileo Masters in the UK is run by HBIC - Herts Business Incubation Centre in Stevenage

We continue to provide regular updates to this website.

" A great help as always."
Adam Tucker, Communications Executive, Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre , Stevenage Hertfordshire

Galileo Masters for HBIC, Business and Technology Centre, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Website Designed For Letchworth Eagles Y.F.C

letchwortheagles.org.uk is a website we have sponsored for some years now for the Letchworth Garden City Eagles Youth Football Club.

The club was established in 1979, currently has over 400 players are registered between the ages of 6 and 17. Between these ages LGC Eagles has grouped them 'under age' teams. All the boys teams are entered in the Royston Crow Youth League , the girls teams are entered in the Herts Girls League. The club is affiliated to the Hertfordshire Football Association. The LGC Eagles are proud to be awarded the Football Association Charter Standard Club. The club also hosts a Saturday morning Soccer School and runs regular 5 aside competitions ..

The web site covers the full range of activities of the club including merchandising, regular competitions and events. Each team have their own section of the web site - some teams provide weekly updates with match reports and photos, others are less active but all support for the club is completely voluntary so time is at a premium for some of the team managers.

LGC Eagles YFC, Letchworth, Hertfordshire

Incredit

Incredit is a registered charity providing help and assistance to a variety of individuals seeking to develop a business. Their client groups cover a broad sweep of those facing the biggest barriers to success in enterprise: women, young people (16-30), people from black and minority ethnic communities, people with disabilities, social enterprises, offenders and ex-offenders.

They had a corporate brand in mind already - the rather clever use of the rounded squares - which runs through everything they print. So we designed the web site around this motif and we are rather pleased with the end result. We designed the website throughout using CSS to provide maximum accessibility. The website incorporates a private area which houses an extensively searchable database of relevant service providers.

"Thank you for enhancing this website in a very short space of time "
Kate Belinis, Head of Operations, Incredit

Incredit Limited, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Bishop Creighton House

Bishop Creighton House Settlement wanted a cleanly presented straightforward site to support their charitable activities at the community centre and out in the Hammersmith and Fulham area.

To aid accessibility the web site is designed using style sheets for content positioning rather than using tables, all text content resizes with the visitors browser text size settings and the site pages scale to fit the browser window.

All pages of the web site are manageable through our epecentre content management software package.

"I'm really happy to provide a testimonial: I found working with you very helpful and supportive. As you know, we didn't have much IT expertise in-house, and it was vital to have someone who talked us through it in a way we could easily understand. I especially appreciated the support and advice around things like accessibility, and legal issues like the privacy policy. Your response to my hundreds of queries was fast and helpful, and I also appreciated your willingness to make the hundreds of small changes as we went through the process! Thanks for all your help"
Karen Osborn, Director, Bishop Creighton House, London

Bishops Creighton House, London

Prospects Services Ltd

Prospects Education and Work Based Learning [Training] Directory for London Boroughs. This was a new web site with a contemporary but clean look for the teen age market for Prospects in association with Connexions and the Central London Learning and Skills Council.

The web site provided many ways to search the extensive Directory database which is fully manageable via a module of our epecentre content management software.

To aid accessibility the web site was designed using CSS style sheets for content positioning, all text content resizes with the visitors browser text size settings and the web site pages scale to fit the browser window.

"Epsilis have a professional and flexible approach to their business. Our project had a demanding brief in terms of functionality and deadline. Epsilis kept us informed at every stage to ensure that the project evolved to meet all our requirements.
Epsilis inspired confidence at every stage through their ability to accurately understand and interpret our needs. Their proactive approach in the application of the latest technologies ensured our site met the Web accessibility requirements of our audience."
Stefan Passchier, Web Site Manager, Prospects Services Ltd, Orpington, Kent

Prospects Careers Information Unit, Orpington, Kent