Exeter Business Forum provides marketing, sales and Web promotion tips to new and budding businesses in Devon.

Business Marketing and Regional Promotion

This site has been designed and built by JoomGuru for our own purposes of promoting and encouraging business growth in Devon and the SouthWest. Exter is the chosen focal point because it is the central location for Devon and a popular destination as well as one of the most sought after cities to live in the southwest.

The site is supported by 4N members in the providing of articles and blogs which are linked directly to their sites and online persona's to provide google backlinking and higher SEO results and help them increase their online visibility.

Designed around a magazine style it is capable of managing features and main pages as well as multiple issues of the magazine and different segments such as business, legal, employment etc., and it will soon also handle classified advertising and event management for members of the EBF.

 

The site was completed in Joomla 1.5.18 and hosted on Parrot Hosting servers 

 

Manor Farm provides static and mobile caravan and camping in Seaton, Devon

Caravan and Camping site

This site has been under our management for nearly 5 years now and has a very high visitor level far in excess of the norm. We have concentrated on placing information in an easy to read and informative way and the photographs of the camping and caravannng and facilities make it an attractive site.

This is the 3rd design in the time the site has been developed and we have tied it in with Events management and local interest projects. The site is managed by us on an ongoing contract to provide content and interest as well as updates and maintenance.

The site was completed in Joomla 1.5.18 and hosted on Parrot Hosting servers 

 

Business by the Sea is an Event management company

Networking and Events Management

Liz Dunphy is an Events organiser in the South West of England and needed a website on a tight budget that would give her the ability to manage her business networking events and subscribers.

Beyond the colour scheme we were given a free hand within the budget to maximise the impact of the site so, in the end it came out as a blog with Events which has the added option of comments and rating. 

We used a commercial application for the Events management .

The site was completed in Joomla 1.5.18 and hosted on Parrot Hosting servers 

 

Mailing Partners are a Direct Mail consultancy organisation

Direct Mailing consultancy

This was our first project for 2010 and the requirement was to create a dynamic site that could handle the diverse activities of a Direct mailing company and its Consultancy arm. As is normal practice the client provided the specification for colour and style and we worked very closely with them in the first few weeks tp ensure a good fit.

The site was completed in Joomla 1.5.18 and hosted on Parrot Hosting servers 

"I can't praise Les enough after working with him on my web re-design. Incredible value and customer service second to none."

Mike Hill, Mailing Partners

 

lawscape.co.uk, a legal advice and wills online service

Wills on-line

We were contracted to provide a 2 phase installation for the client which consisted of building a clean website to customers requirements and install extensive content provided by 3rd party copywriters and in addition to this provide a large on-line will completion form to allow clients to fill in their will details from the front end of the website and email a completed PDF file post payment to the Lawyers office for completion of the Will.

The site was completed in Joomla 1.5.18 and hosted on Parrot Hosting servers 

 

lawscape.co.uk, a legal advice and wills online service

On-line Document Selling

We quoted for the development of a website to manage downloadable speeches for weddings, and other special occasions. The brief was very tight, colours logos and graphics were provided and all had to be incorporated into a document selling application.

The specification required additional 'modding' to allow the customer to not only  receive an email with the speech enclosed but, also to be able to view the object immediately on-line within their account maintained on the site.

"My website project was a fairly complex one and he did everything as promised along the way and was patient with me when I delayed the project more than once. The finished result is just what I was looking for"

 Jamie Graham - SwiftSpeech
 

Sure Call provides an online appointment booking service for IT Support

IT Remote & Physical Support Booking

Very complex sites are often fun to do because its harder and more of a challenge to make them work well. SURECALL is just such a site with a complex booking system that takes accounts of days available, resources working and locations as well as specific types of jobs with those criteria.

There is also a remote applet download facility for remote appointments which works out of the box for the user and provides for ad-hoc visits to resolve issues, or ongoing monthly subscription support. This is a very sophisticated site and potentially can be applied to training or seminars with very little modification of design.

The site was completed in Joomla 1.5.18 and hosted on Parrot Hosting servers 

 

richardpuddy

Building Project Developer

We were recommended by another client and Richard was very specific as to what he wanted taking the same fine detailed approach to the website as he did to all his building projects.

All of the photographs used throughout the site were from Richard's own sites and because there was a need to display all the projects for potential clients it was essential that this did so without creating long load times and no flash.

As a brochure site it works very successfully and the rotating header adds dimension to the project. All in all a very enjoyable build.

 

seatonnet

Wifi Hotspot Service

We needed to do this quickly because there was only a short window of opportunity before the holiday season opened for 2011 with the coming of half term. We were extremely keen to keep the site looking clean and simple and make it specific to the area in which the visitors were staying.

This totally fitted the bill and has proven very popular with the annual users who use the website extensively throughout the seaon.