Clark Studios Web Blog

I have just finished a design off for a friend who is just started his own company specialising in the maintainence and install of  bespoke air conditioning systems. Here it is anyway, Should be launching later in the year.

Just finished a new design for Eurotech Fire Protection a new fire safety and extinguisher company based in Crowthorne, Berkshire.

Eurotech is a small company who specialise in the manufactuer and global distribution of Gaseous Fire Exstingushing , so my challenge was make something so niche and quite unexciting fresh and sexy.

Any how see what you think.

After the success of the quick micro site I had done for a friend of mine recently www.gitesloire.co.uk for their holiday home in France. I was asked by my friends company to give them a mock up of new design for their existing website.

Launched the new Camberley and Farnborough hockey club website the guys there love it but it is shy of content and they are making the effort to get it populated.

Got to admit I think its the best club website out there at the moment, and the development of the system is a long term project that will enable, team management, fixtures and player profiles.

View it now at: www.candfhockey.co.uk

Relief Milkerz

Still in the build process of this new site after some code issues and some new features I redesigned and rejigged,  back in Alpha stage and bug fixing this site at the moment, expecting an late August launch now, maybe sooner.

It has been such a busy couple of months I dont know where to start really.

First off I am going to be a dad which is both a worry and very exciting news for me, however it will mean random charchters in my web pages as I am sure young Clark will be banging the keys like Seasme Streets Animal on a drum set, Loving the thought.

So whats been happening in the world of Steve “Clark Studios” Clark. Well client wise I have been approached by several companies and secured some new clients for some summer websites, One called CMS which I suppose is going to be the hardest thing to SEO in the world. As well as that I have been doing the odd campaign monitor emarketing template and consultancy and tweaks to websites.

One of these websites was a company called mantek a seal and gasket company based in aldershot who needed some bits of work done on there new WordPress driven website, I have to say a gem of a client who had good savvy of computers already but just needed some help in tweaking their site – needless to say it is now live.

Just secured a design and templating job for a mansion house based in Hampshire which has been delivered and I am expecting the site to go live by mid July. Really liking that site.

What else, Oh yes just finished a design for a coach company based in Hampshire, it is with the client at the moment so I am expecting build to commence next month which I am excited about. See a preview here.

A part from that won a lot of money at Royal Ascot and having started writing a mean little Twitter App, shame I cant dedicate much time to it at the moment.

It has really taken off this month – I have work coming out of my ears. My typing arm is a bit knackered from all the hockey I have been playing and falling over a lot and then being spanked by the strikers, consequently I have just invested 500 British pounds of my monet in a new kit, 500 pounds for four bits of foam.

Anyway – I have managed to secure Releif Milkerz, C&F Hockey, DLP Coaches, Showbiz Spy and Mantek as clients and a couple of others on the card. Releif Milkerz is the site I am currently working on and is a big project which in my opnion is going to work really well, very niche!.

C&F Hockey Club Design

Relief Milkerz Concept

Also this month I finally got iwantotworkinoz up and running – you can see it at www.iwanttoworkinoz.com.

Spending time away from my blog has been common practice for me as of late – I could use an excuse of “I’m too busy” but that is not the case, but I somewhat think it will be very soon.

This month has probably been the most exciting and rewarding for me of late as I have managed to get 4 web projects from my website, Hooray!. One is a static site with wordpress integrated, another a bespoke CMS and Showbiz Spy comes home (Another wordrpress site). I also have some consultancy on a WordPress project and helping implementation from a local to live enviroment. I can wait.

So what else is new, Well I found and finally signed up to carbonmade an online portfolio site which I will be using to showcase designs to clients, it just beats an online secure area which would just be a nightmare to build with all this work going on. I am officaly now a GAWDS member (Guild of Accessible Web Designers, you can see my ugly mug and profile at their website .

In terms of coding I actually sat down and played with Paypal’s sanbox, and got all the IPN crap working. You are probably wondering why not sooner? well to be fair I have not really needed to know it, but now I do I decided to have a play.

Nascar Skins seems to be doing well, I just dont have the time to update it and create more skins and will be releasing a new upload your skin page soon so it is self populated. Also Graphic River was unvailed and I have got to say it is a fantastic website, I love it! – Istock vectors for $20 sod off!, $5 for some awesome work good effort from the envato boys.

I plan to release some new freebies soon, so keep coming back.

Ahh Forza 2. Blogged on this ages a go and to be fair my xbox 360 time has been waining of late. I put it down to just not being interested but it has all changed lately mainly thanks to my mate Gaz, who kept on about racing online. So one wet afternoon I decided to crack it on give Gaz a call and three hours later we where loving it and talking about setting up a league so www.forza2leagues was bought up and work started on a microsite mini.forza2leagues.co.uk.

Needless to say 3 hours design and build and we have a really nice and simple site build. There is still a lot do but we love it, and so much so two others have joined the league and we will soon be promoting it to the Forza main site once the back end is sorted.

Circus Scene

Is a circus company which provides workshops for schools, businesses and the general public. They provide a number of circus based services and have no branched into selling a couple of products which they require a small paypal shop for. The main goal is to bring the site up to date with a fresh new look and new logo.

I want to work in Oz

Yes I do, and this site is my first step to achieving this. By doing various freelance work for Australian based agencies I intend to get sponsored and bugger off to Oz. If all else fails I will make a I want to work in Dubai website and go there. It is still in progress and can be found here.

Pro AVS and Plasma Screen Rentals

Two sites for my brother in law who is starting his own business. This is the whole package, branding, website and collateral.

Sites are at: www.pro-avs.co.uk | www.plasmascreenrentals.co.uk

Well it is nearly here the new Clark Studios website will go live by the end of the week.  I am just tweaking the CSS and adding more and more to it, but the base site will be ready by Friday.

You can get a look at the in progress version here