Web Solutions

Some of our past web projects include :-

Korner House - Bed & Breakfast An old school friend is currently transforming her home into a Bed & Breakfast and now that she is nearing the completion of building works thought it time to consider how and where she was going to generate her bookings. It seemed natural that a web site was required and so she asked me to build a basic site together that she could update and maintain as and when she was ready to fully commence business.

The result is a content managed solution which helps to manage bookings, delivers information to guests, promotes Stonehaven via an image gallery and has the facility to provide news. The structure of the site is now ready and awaiting that essential information to finalise the project in time for the opening of Korner house on 1st April 2009.

Horsebed Quality wood Shavings Stewart Timber had been long standing clients of Brian Watson & Co until they were acquired by East End Sawmills, so it was a pleasant surprise when they recently approached us to develop a new site.

East End Sawmills were suffering from the recent downturn in the building trade and as a result were failing their equine customers who bought wood shavings as horse bedding. The answer was radical but simple. Turn wood directly into shavings. This kept the workforce busy, satisfied a customer need whilst creating a whole new product.

To rapidly produce a content managed web solution to sell not only horse bedding but a range of products needed by anyone who stables a horse we pulled modules from past projects and made a few tweaks here and there to satisfy the company's specific needs. The site produced in under two weeks and went live on 1st February 2009.

Watsons of Haddington - The Stationer It is strange how long it can sometimes take to get around to getting your own house into order and this has been the case with Watsons of Haddington, my fathers business, which I registered a number of domains for a long time ago but never seemed to get around to building the site. Well the structure is now finished and content is being added so that customers can order their stationery online.

This is a content managed solution which maintains a shopping cart, information pages and news section. A number of domains lead to the site and different header content is presented to return information optimised to the page content which differs slightly for each domain name. The site was launch ready on 7th December 2008 and hopes to be customer ready (once content is added) in the first quarter of 2009.

Fat Buddha Store We have been working with Fat Buddha Store for a number of years and during that time have made many changes to the company's web presence to enhance search engine positioning and maximise income from the web presence. This latest version not only provides an online shopping cart using ASP at the front end and MS SQL server as the database back end but also generates Google Base XML output which is scheduled with Google to update the newest 1000 products with Google Shopping every week.

This is a content managed solution which maintains not only the cart but also the information pages and news section within the site. The site also uses many micro sites which focus of specialty product ranges such as hatcetera, bucklemybelt and retrotransfers. The latest version will be ready to launch in November 2008.

French Dream Homes is nearing completion and as the name suggests is a site specialising in finding your dream home in France. The company specialise in South West France and are especially strong around Dordogne and Charente.

The site uses SQL and ASP and has many added features for registered users utilising AJAX to help filter the properties to only show those most likely to meet the buyers set criteria.

In the admin section staff can quickly identify what prospective buyers need and use this information to help source the right home. Numerous sales aids are built into the admin section to ensure no hot buyer is ever overlooked. the site is planned to launch late 2008.

Clyde Wraps We have been working with Clyde Taxi Advertising for many years and historically the vehicle wrapping division of the business shared the Taxi Advert web site, however, the owner recognised that vehicle wraps would benefit from a separate web presence and so Clyde Wraps was created.

This solution uses SQL and ASP with some AJAX functionality in the gallery section.

West Coast Harley-Davidson are one of Scotland's Harley-Davidson and Buel motorcycle dealership. They offer a wide range of New and Used Bikes, Clothing and Rental Bikes. They required a revised site to promote their goods, and offer an online shop to buy clothing, accessories and parts. The site offers over 10,000 product variations many with multiple images.

In the past few years we have constantly evolved the West Coast Harley web presence and the site has seen many changes mostly behind the scenes over time. This has culminated in a site that looks after in clients and gains substantial repeat custom. A cosmetic revamp is planned during the winter of 2008.

Simple 2 Rent Offer a free service to tenants to help them find properties to rent throughout the UK. Private Landlords can add up to can advertise up to 5 properties to let, each with multiple images Free of Charge and Agencies can add multiple Branches each with many properties. The project started in April 2006 and was launched in August 2006 .

We are currently in discussion with our client to revamp this site and home to demonstrate new site features in the spring of 2009.

Thomson Pettie had not changed their web site steeltubes.com in almost a decade during which time the company had undertaken many mergers and takeovers. To reflect these changes we have just commenced a new content managed web solution for the company.

The new content managed solution thomsonpettie.com was launched in December 2006

Flip Stores We built this site with online shopping cart using ASP at the front end and an Access at the database back end back around 2002 to provide Americana European Wholesale Ltd with a content managed solution to maintain information pages within the site and the management of their online shop.

The closure of Flip resulted in this site also shutting down but Fat Buddha Store acquired the domain name and have benefited greatly from the high volume of traffic the filp generated.

Puffin Dive Centre is located at the Sound Of Mull which has excellent diving conditions. The centre is rated as one of the best diving centres in the world. Accessible from anywhere in the British Isles, Puffin Dive Centre exploits the naturally clear Gulf Stream waters that pass through this region. The area is famous for its many shipwrecks from the days of sail, through the wars to present day with soft corals, sheer underwater cliffs, scenic reefs and fabulous drift dives. They wanted to change their site so that they can regularly update the content and so we are designing a new content manager with online shop to sell new and secondhand equipment. This project commenced 13th October 2005 and was completed in the spring of 2006, however, as the dive centre are at their busiest during the spring and summer months most of the content will not be added by them until they reach their quiet period. Look out for this one late 2006.

Hydreau are a new company with a unique product. Their modern undershot water wheel generates renewable energy at low cost and high yield. It has a long life, can be rapidly developed emits no carbon dioxide has low visual impact and has minimal total lifetime environmental impact. The site is being built as part of the company's marketing campaign and may later be developed to generate online sales. This project commenced 9th January 2006 to reflect the prototype and design concept and in December 2008 got a makeover as the company are now nearing a the market ready phase.

B G Club was built for the Business Growth Club within Falkirk Enterprise Action Trust. It is a content managed solution with a private members section including a forum. We were instructed to undertake this project by Blue Kite Communications bluekite.co.uk who needed this project completed quickly and within a restricted budget. Consequently the project was somewhat rushed as we were only instructed on 15th September 2005 and it had to be completed by the 30th of September. By using elements of past code we were able to rapidly develop this solution such that the structure was finished on the 25th September and now awaits population of content by Blue Kite so it will be launched January 2006.

Fantasy Speedway is a game where participants built their team from a list of real Speedway Riders. The actual results of the events these riders participate in are recorded so that the fantasy teams can compete in a league. Prizes are awarded together with the opportunity to play against Fantasy Speedway opponents from all over the world. The project commenced December 2004 but could not commence as a gaming licence had not yet been issued. Some revisions have now taken place, the licence has been awarded and the game will be start with the 2006 season.

The game was taken over by Speedway Star Magazine shortly before the 2007 season and each year since we have made moror twaeks to make the game more competitive and enhance used experience.

Stephen S Gordon Glasgow Architect needed a site to promote his practice. This content managed solution ensures that Stephen can quickly and easily update the site as new projects are undertaken or completed. Behind the scenes there is a private section where clients can upload or download material relevant to their project. This project started Jan 2005 but was put on hold and therefore was only Completed December 2005

JMC Tiles also trading as West End Tiles and Bathrooms This site was recently redesigned following the total refurbishment of the company's Dumbarton Road showroom. This is a simple content managed solution which empowers the company with a means of uploading images of the latest tiles, bathrooms and showers to the site such that they can arrange pages that better illustrate the constantly changing product range. It has an ASP front end and Access database at the backend. The solution also uses an ASP Component to ensure images are dynamically resized server side before being presented to the end user. As such members of staff uploading images do not need to think in advance how the image might be used and worry about optimising it for web use. This solution primarily uses one of our "off the shelf" Content Managers and so was completed within one day, 25th September 2005.

M Tek BMW are specialist BMW dismantles who needed a site where they could rapidly change the content and images of vehicles they had acquired for breaking into spare parts. They had a limited budget and so we offered a solution which used many components of code from past projects to help us rapidly deliver a quality yet budget priced solution. The solution uses an ASP front end and Access database backend to provide an easy to use content managed web site. As one of the mechanics said "I know nothing about computers but this is so easy to use even I can build great looking web pages!" The project started on the 31st March 2005 and was completed on 24th May 2005.

AELZ The Active England Learning Zone web site helps Active England funded projects with the monitoring and evaluation needed to report to Sport England. The site and its sister site Community Club Development Programme ccdprog.org use an ASP front end with SQL backend and also incorporate forums where members can share experiences and opinions. These sites are content managed solutions such that Hall Aitken and Bearhut, the organisations commissioned to help projects can regularly update the information provided. The project commenced on 27th January 2005 and was completed and delivered on time for the 14 th February and within budget.

Nickleby and Nickleby Kit These full content managed solutions use an ASP front end and Access backend. The projects commenced on 20th January 2005 and was completed within one month and delivered on time and within budget.

taxiadvert.co.uk is another content managed solution with some complex image management. Clyde Taxi Advertising wanted a solution which enabled then to quickly upload new images of client advertising campaigns to further enhance their clients promotion. The site facilitates this need and the image gallery selects random images from the site to present an ever changing array of images. The project commenced on the 3rd September 2004 and completed 20th December 2004 on budget.

Catering World is the online trading arm of Gas Heating and Appliance Services Ltd who specialise in new and reconditioned catering equipment. The company required a low cost solution to meet their online trading requirements which we achieved by using elements of code from past projects to deliver a content managed site with shopping cart within a very restrictive budget. The project commenced on 5th July 2004 and was complete by 10th September 2004

VVS Technology are a leading specialist Research and Development company working on innovative technology-based products and systems for the established CCTV Industry. The site not only acts as an information resource on the company and its products but also has a shopping cart that enables online order fulfillment. It uses our Content Management module to provide VVS the resource to maintain their own site.

We also built the Active X framework for VVS Live camera demonstration View Here

World Homes Network is a marketing tool for property agents around the world. The site hosts an abundance of maps and data in its 3000+ static pages to empower those about to move to new areas with a host of useful details. These static pages are further enhanced by a massive back end database hosting around 2,000,000 homes for sale and or let at any point in time. Plus links to thousands of property agents around the globe.

The site receives millions of unique viewers each year. Property agents effectively offer their clients access to the homes they have listed in the world-homes.net database and whenever a prospective customer enters a search parameter to find a listing not offered by that agent but similar to listings offered by other agents the customer is invited to migrate to the World-homes.net site and broaden their search. Whilst each agent passes over those customers they cannot help they are all fed those clients that they can help.

IAMGlasgow.org, is the site for the Glasgow Motorcycle division of the Institute of Advanced Motorists. The site offers a set of ASP based admin pages to enable authorised members to maintain the content. A forum allows members to keep in touch, check changes to timetable for events and raise questions whenever help is needed.

The Membership Administration is an asp.net/MSSQL application that empowers office bearers to simultaneousely manage the membership administration and members themselves can update their details at any time.

The Children of Shakespeare Company is owned and operated by Dr Maureen Lappin Carroll who is from Scotland but now resides in Melbourne. The site was one of our first content managed solutions and remains in it's original design.

Other web based projects include:
ccdprog.org,   fmscot.org,  janice-a-watson.com,  kennythejoiner.co.uk,   angloconstruction.com  marbellahouse.co.uk,   preproductions.com,  softwarepricecutters.com,   SpookySue.com,   TACL.com, 

We recomend that our clients join UK Link Exchange to help promote their sites

Last altered Monday, 23 March, 2009 © Brian Watson & Co. 2000-2009