Peter was a pleasure to work with. He listened carefully to what I needed and as a result, communication was straightforward and clear. I am delighted with the website he has designed for me, which exactly reflects my business, and I recommend him highly
Clare Thalmann (clarethalmann.co.uk)We have been working with Screenbeetle for 4 years and they have played a vital role in our development. Not only are they very efficient and knowledgeable, they listen and understand extremely clearly what we hope to achieve with our website
Joe Melia (bristolprize.co.uk)
Clare Thalmann is a very well respected, Bristol based counsellor, coach and supervisor. She works with people to help build confidence and purpose in their personal and professional lives. The website was to be both a personal profile of Clare herself, as well as an advert for her services.
It was important for the site to visually communicated trust, clarity and professionalism which are fundamental aspects of her approach. She was kind enough to allow me to select and adapt a theme which I thought best communicated her professional profile.
John Churchill is a very talented Blacksmith who works from his forge in Devon. He first came to me with the brief of adding a shop component to his already existing site.
After some discussion we eventually went down the route of creating a new site. The aim was to create the shop as well as a much more expansive and stylish portfolio to show off his past commissions. It was based on a custom theme with custom aspects to handle a simple shop and an extensive portfolio.
Like my other local tree surgery clients the spec for this website was to give a professional yet personal face to Kent based, Quality Tree Care Ltd. Over three decades the owner, Keven Watt, has continually developed his company to remain at the forefront of his industry. Commissioning a modern, well thought-out website was, therefore, a natural step to take.
He very kindly trusted my judgement and allowed me to come up with something that fitted his company. His explanatory brief was nicely detailed but not prescriptive. This allowed for enough creative input from me to keep the project interesting without being directionless.
The brief for this site was to create a little visual vignette of life in the South of France. This beautiful house in the Minervois wine growing area was restored by semi-retired, amateur photographer Barry Glanfield. The wealth of photos he provided made it obvious what style direction to take in the design.
It took a fair amount of time to create the theme and arrange the content but the actual Wordpress set up is quite basic. It makes little use of the wealth of features available in the package and only has a few well chosen plugins - including a image popup effect and a contact form. It goes to show that less can be more for some websites.
This is a website I built for my brother, Angelo. He is a long established tree surgeon in London and wanted his online presence to be a cut above his competitors. I put a lot of time into this site for a number of reasons. Obviously, being my brother, I wanted to do a good job. It was also that trees are an aesthetically interesting subject to design a site around.
To go beyond the look of a standard trade site we decided to have a professional photographer shadow him for a day to come up with most of the images. I'm lucky to know a very talented photographer - Catherine Benson - who agreed to do the photos for us.