Portfolio

In the Spring of 2024, we wer approached by an existing customer to help them to set up a new webiste for their bowling club.

Banbury Cross Indoor Bowls Club are located within Woodgreen Leisure Centre in Oxfordshire. They are a friendly and welcoming community for bowlers of all ages and skill levels. The club has six national/county standard rinks and is open for play from September through to April each year.

The new website uses a prototype admin that we are developing for community groups, non-profits, small charities and small businesses in the UK. We are working to develop a new 'website builder' style platform based on our in-house bespoke CMS.

Banbury Cross' website includes editable pages, customisable banners, side panels, staff member profiles and a news/blog system. Much of which was built specifically with small community groups like local bowling clubs in mind.

If you'd like to know more about our forthcoming 'website builder' and 'pay per month' website options, please get in contact!

Check out the new Banbury Cross IBC site here: www.banburycrossibc.co.uk

At the end of 2023 we were approached by professional photographer, David Webber, who had reloacted to Devon and was looking for a simple website to showcase his varied portfolio of photography.

David Webber is a skilled and professional photographer with vast experience working for a diverse array of clients and subjects, often in challenging situations.

He has photographed many corporate and personal events as well as real-estate and architectural work, studio and location fashion, beauty and red carpet, celebrity and corporate portraits, for the smallest of small family weddings to the largest of giant international corporations, fashion magazines and newspapers.

The website that we built for him is relatively simple in itself, with the focus rightly on his vast array of photographic brilliance. It allows David to upload new photos as/when he needs to and to update the content of each page at will with a simple but powerful bespoke admin area.

See the website for yourself: www.davidwebberphoto.co.uk

At the start of 2022, Emma Griffin, an incredibly talented young artist based near Nottingham, got in contact with Doive Web Design with the aim of showcasing her unique brand of artistic creations. The idea was to allow you, the general public, to purchase prints of her art, whether as a card, a poster or even a mug!

Emma also does art commissions, whether that's for a custom tattoo, a wedding card or anything else you can think of. If your after something completely original, Ms Griffin will create something that no one else will have!

Given the uniqueness of Emma's work, we needed something as unique for her website. So we created a bespoke e-commerce website tailored around her needs and based on her own art.

You can see (and buy) all of Emma's latest artwork by visiting: www.emmagriffinart.co.uk and we cannot recommend her hand drawn masterpieces highly enough!

Back in the Autumn of 2021, Peter Wrigley approached us with an idea for a personal website where he could share greetings cards, short stories, poems, details of walks and more generally is faith, or as he describes it 'a total mish-mash of whole life'.

Coming from a design background, Peter already had a good idea as to what he wanted, but had no real interest in how websites worked. So we complemented each other quite nicely and his initial ideas were quite easy to translate into a working website.

The website itself uses the latest version of our bespoke content management system (or CMS) which means that we were able to completely customise the options available to him. This allows him to add his varied content to the website, whilst giving him an easy to use admin system to add, edit or upload new content.

The new website launched in April 2022.

At the end of 2021, we were contacted by holiday home owner Many Cotter, who needed a website set up for her newly purchased holiday cottage in the Scottish Highlands.

Located in Letterfearn, the Old School House was the Head teacher's house until the school closed. It is now a 3 bedroomed holiday let, which sleeps 5 people.

On the shores of Loch Luich, overlooking the Eilean Donan Castle, this relaxing location on the West Coast of Scotland, is an ideal base for exploring this wonderful part of Scotland.

The website is nothing all that complicated. They simply needed something to help them to get found, to help people to make enquiries and to share photos from guests and of local attractions. One helpful feature is the 'availability checker' which helps perspective visitors quickly check its availability.

So we set to work, customising our home made CMS (content management system) to produce the simple business website that you can view for yourself at: www.letterfearnholidaycottage.co.uk

FindCarWashes.com is the brainchild of Harry Barrett who simply wanted to create a free service for people looking for their closest car wash. So, the website is a simple search facility for anyone looking for a car wash. Users can rate car washes and even leave comments for other visitors.

Find Car Washes is available not only on your laptop though, with reactive versions available for mobile phones and tablets of all shapes and sizes.

The website originally launched in the summer of 2014, but had a major rebranding in 2021 with the addition of the Business Portal which allows owners of car washes and mobile valeters to take ownership of their profile pages in order to keep the information up to date and authorise comments made by their customers.

The re-working of Find Car Washes.com has probably been the most ambitious project that we have worked on to date, including the integration of Google Adverts, Map with traffic and directions, Stripe payment gateway, photo Galleries and tabbed results. See the site for yourself and find your closest car wash today: www.findcarwashes.com

Blomfield Bespoke Furniture are a small family business specialising in making one-off pieces of furniture to order, or complete room schemes in a variety of different timbers and finishes.

Whether it be a replica of a chair, a custom fitted wardrobe or kitchen, bespoke boardroom table or a modern piece for a contemporary interior, the quality of the work speaks for itself.

Peter Blomfield, a furniture maker and designer since 1977, approached us last Summer wanting to set up a new website following his relocation from Cornwall. The new website was to be relatively simple and to act simply as a way to showcase a portfolio of his works.

So we set about setting up a bespoke website to display his work using our in-house content management system (CMS) which makes it really simple to customise to his exact needs and removes any complications that the client doesn't need or want.

The new website went live early in 2021, delayed slightly by the second lockdown, but we're proud to list this in our portfolio of work. See the Blomfield Bespoke Furniture website for yourselves here: blomfieldbespokefurniture.com

Women Connect First was established on 1 March 2001, St. David’s Day, to empower Black & Minority Ethnic Women in Cardiff and South East Wales by offering a range of services and training in order to improve their livelihoods and employability. The organisation has moved on since and has expanded its services.

It is their mission is to empower and improve the lives of disadvantaged BME women and communities in South Wales, to help them realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to Welsh society.

At Doive Designs, we have been working alongside Women Connect First for several years, initially simply helping them to update and maintain their current website. However, at around the time of the first national lockdown we agreed to work together to help re-design the website.

The new website, which still uses the incredibly popular Wordpress CMS (Content Management System) has a new customised theme using the charity's colourscheme and photos. The lockdown did slow down the re-launch which went live in March 2021 to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of the charity.

Check out the website for yourselves here: https://womenconnectfirst.org.uk

St Barnabas with Christs' Church in Dulwich are a large and diverse group of people at different stages in their Christian pilgrimage. They are an active church with an aim to help people to develop their faith in Jesus, learn together how to live with respect for creation, to love God, to love and serve others, to seek justice and to resist evil.

St Barnabas’ church building is new, rebuilt in 1996, after the fire in 1992 which destroyed the original Victorian building. Their worship is enhanced by their large and brilliant choir directed by Music Director Christopher Woodward.

The new church website, though not specifically designed by Doive Designs, was converted from a Joomla website to a Wordpress one in the Autumn of 2020, and relaunched in December 2020. The conversion allows the team greater access to amend content using Wordpress' and an array of easy to use plugins.

Check out the new website here: https://www.stbarnabasdulwich.org

Life Center Beirut is a Christian community center located in the heart of Bourj Hammoud, one of the poorest areas in Beirut, Lebanon. This 4000sqm facility serves as a church for many congregations of different nationalities: Lebanese, Armenian, Ethiopian, Sri Lankan, and Filipino. Through its various programs, it provides schooling, relief, food, clothing and shelter to the most needy in the community.

Hayat Ministries is a registered UK charity which exists to help support the Life Center in Beirut and we have had the privilege to work with them over the past few years to re-develop their old Joomla website and migrate it over to Wordpress. We also helped to bring it up to date and to give it a new look. Here's what they said about us on TrustPilot:

Highly recommended web developer

Dave has done work for the charity I run for several years now, first on a Joomla website, and more recently as we transitioned to WordPress. He's always been very helpful and "knows his stuff", which of course is what you want! I highly recommend him.

Check out the Hayat Ministries website at: www.hayatministries.org