After months (and we really do mean months) of work on our new company website the site has finally gone live at http://www.aqua-creative.com/

We realised pretty early on last year that with all the work we had on we were finding it increasingly hard to keep our main company website updated with our latest work. Hence part of the reason for us launching this blog at the beginning of 2009.

Our blog has been a great way to keep everyone who is interested, up-to-date on what we are up to on a regular basis, but of course we knew we still needed to keep our main website updated more frequently. So we decided the best way to do this was to put the static main website into a CMS. At the end of 2009 we began to put our website into Joomla, and of course as designers we thought this would be the ideal time to re-design!

Although most of the work on our new website was completed by Feb of 2010, due to the large amount of clients’ work we had on, we were finding it increasingly hard to get the time to complete it. Plus we agreed it would make sense to wait a bit longer and add some of our more recent projects, which had been keeping us so busy, to the portfolio of our work.

So, after 6 months of hard work, we are over the moon and extremely relieved, to finally see the website go live.

On top of the 2 major changes to our new website (the redesign and the CMS) we have added various bits of functionality which we are very happy with.

On our homepage we now have a very large banner at the top of the page allowing us to truly showcase some of our favourite and latest work. We also have a flash scroller of some of our other favourite / most recent projects further down the page, to highlight to our potential clients the work we are able to produce.

This website is more focused on social networking than our last. We have a feed from our Twitter account on our homepage so, as soon as our users come to our site, they can see what we are up to on a more up-to-date basis. And of course we also promote the other social networking platforms of Facebook and LinkedIn that we can be found on.

We have a selection of quotes from the testimonials our client have written us and we have made contacting us even easier, by not only having our contact details on every page but allowing our users to contact us via MSN and Skype.

Throughout the site we have made use of some nice little bits of functionality. We particularly like the smooth scrolling effect of our ‘back to top’ button and the javascript effect on the ‘our work’ page.

It probably goes without saying that the new site has been created and built with SEO in mind.

Anyway we would love to hear your thoughts / comments on the website, so please feel free to comment below.

Today we received this testimonial from David Peile, MD The Apex Intitative

“Working with Aqua Creative was a pleasure from start to finish. Their creative process worked well for us as we had some ideas how we wanted our site to look and there were other areas where we needed their input. The site was delivered on time and exceeded our expectations. We will certainly be using Aqua Creative for our site requirements in the future.”

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Today we received this testimonial from Agusia Kubik, owner of Mini Mi.

“I needed to set up my E Commerce website and chose to work with Aqua Creative. They proved to be totally professional, efficient and extremely friendly. They helped me immensely throughout the training process and were always very quick to update and requests or changes. I am absolutely delighted with the final result of my website and would highly recommend Aqua Creative.
Thank you for everything Stefana and Lee.”

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The Apex Initiative is a leading provider of global business to business events and the website we created for them went live today.

We love the subtle flash animation on the site, the branded wallpaper effect in the banner area of the website, the roll over functionality on the list of events to the left of the majority of pages and the use of lightbox functionality used in ‘The Events’ section. We are also very happy that we got to create all the vector art work / icons on the website, allowing us to showcase other area of our design capabilities.

This makes for yet another project that we are happy and proud to be able to add into our portfolio of work.

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Today we received this testimonial from Manuel Garcia Caracuel, partner GCLA Abogados

“Starting our own firm was a completely new adventure to us, but we were determined to have presence on internet, and we knew that our website would be an essential piece of our firm. We asked Aqua Creative to design it, as well as a logo for our company. Stefana and Lee have done a great job and we are very pleased with the result. Our website has a clear, elegant and fresh look. From the very first meeting, Stefana was able to capture the essence of what we wanted our firm to be. She provided an excellent, very professional and friendly service. We highly recommend Aqua Creative.

Manuel Garcia Caracuel, partner GCLA Abogados.

Thanks again.”

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Our latest website went live today for law firm GCLA Abogados based in Puerto Banus on the Costa del Sol, Spain. You can see it at www.gcla.es

The website is in English and Spanish and we love the soft, clean feel that it has.

The site has been designed and built with SEO in mind and part of the project brief included us completing some basic SEO for the client during the build process.

We are happy to be able to add this project to our portfolio of work and more importantly we are please to say the clients are also happy, not only with the design work we have delivered them but also with the service they have received, as you can see from the testimonial they have written us.

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After supplying GCLA Abogados with the design concept for their new website we have been given the green light to go ahead with the website build. Since most of the content for the website is in place we are looking forward to hopefully seeing this website go live in the next few weeks.

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Today I received the below personal testimonial on LinkedIn from Edwin Blanchard (Senior Strategy Manager at Greenwich Consulting).  I worked with Edwin during my time as an eTV Producer at B Sky B.

“I Worked with Stefana at Sky and she was both the model of professionalism and a joy to work. She had a good mix of technical knowledge, excellent project management skills and commercial sense making her a valuable asset to the team. Most of all she is a great fun person to work with. I would heartily recommend her”

Thank you Edwin