Our client for this project was a Chester interior design company. Our brief was not to redesign their website, built by another web design company, but to recode it as there were issues that were making it difficult to update. We were also asked to transfer the domain and webhosting.

With a great many existing sites we are asked to look at, the first thing we do is look for more efficient ways of coding. This site contained lots and lots of code on each page that we either moved somewhere else, replaced, or chopped out completely.

We kept the layout and the graphics, but we did remove the introduction ’splash page’, taking visitors directly to the home page instead. We also integrated a powerful blog, complete with it’s own RSS feed.

Finally we gave tutorials in how to update the website, using our client’s choice of content management system; how to optimise images in Photoshop; and how to update the blog for maximum effect.