The latest website to add to Oliver Designs portfolio is www.gainassociation.org.uk. Collaborating with Shere Marketing in Surrey, the agency approached Oliver to design and build a low cost site that would bring the existing site up to date.

GAIN Association helps customers to provide access to a network of businesses specialising in renewable and sustainable energy sources.

hám interiors, based in Henley-on-Thames, UK is a family born interior design company that transforms a property into a perfect living space.

hám approached Oliver Designs having seen the previous site designed for Varley and requested a revamp of their existing site along with all marketing, including newsletter design and print media.

hám felt their existing website was difficult for user experience, navigating through products and displaying their portfolio. Based on these attributes, Oliver designed and built the site focussing on displaying the project portfolio, using full screen imagery, product store display, online blog and ease of management within admin. hám also requested that the site was clean and non-intrusive to the functionality and navigation of the site.

To view the site, go to www.haminteriors.com

OpenSource software has been around for decades and has been changing the web since the beginning. Previously, OpenSource had a reputation for being difficult and temperamental however, over the last few years, the huge number of developers adopting OpenSource platforms for client development has made a massive impact on ensuring that the platform is fully supported, up to date and evermore secure than once were.

Over the course of 2012, OpenSource software has had an evolution of developers and agencies creating some fantastic webpage widgets, layouts, and dynamic effects. Typically, the most common and easy for users to use being CMS software such as WordPress.

Open APIs and resources like Github have been allowing designers and developers to not only prototype layouts, but also animations and effects on the page. This includes the revelation of CSS3 (to those unaware the normal positioning of elements and modules within a page) creating fancy animated effects and transitions.

OpenSource is not expected to slow down anytime soon and, if anything, is set to become more popular, even more supported and evolve over the next year to utilise the other trends of Responsive Design, HTML5, theme and plugin easy management.

Extracts from http://www.hongkiat.com/

The site showcases an easy to view portfolio layout, details services Oliver can provide for businesses or individuals in terms of online, digital marketing and illustrates some of the latest techniques that are able to be achieved through programming OpenSource platforms.

If you are not already aware, we specialise in the following services:

• Logo & Branding
• Graphic Design & Illustration
• Print Design
• Powerpoint Presentation Templates
• Web Design & Development
• OpenSource Theme Development
• SEO Optimisation & Accessibility
• Online Newsletter Campaigns
• User Experience (UX) Consultation
• Responsive Site Design
• Site maintenance

Oliver Designs focusses on OpenSource CMS web development for it’s support, ease of use for clients and strength as platforms in their own fields. Oliver Designs works with the following platforms:

• WordPress
• Magento (e-commerce)
• Joomla
• Drupal

If you are, or know someone, interested in any of these services, why not get in touch with us. If not, why not just check our site out and see the clients that we work with