Looking for a web designer? Want to sell online? Want to develop a presence on the web for your business? Need your website to rank higher on Google? No idea where to start? For web design solutions: Talk to Chris!
Web Design Portfolio
Chris Ashwell has worked on the following web design projects:
Holiday Accommodation:
Seaview Caravan Park: East Runton, Cromer
About The Business:
Seaview Caravan Park has a prominent position on the cliff top at East Runton in beautiful North Norfolk. It is a small, family owned and managed park that is the perfect holiday destination. It offers luxury caravans for hire and occasionally has new and used caravans for sale.
About The Website:
This was the first website I built - back in 2001. Has been completely updated in the last couple of years and now includes a more comprehensive caravans for hire section. The site was designed with accessibility and search engines in mind. The business no longer needs to advertise offline as they can fill all there vacancies through online enquiries - mainly due to there high-ranking on Google.
Skipjack Holiday Cottage: Ingworth, Norfolk
About The Business:
The business needed a website to market their holiday cottage with a difference: Skipjack holiday cottage is available to hire all year round for short breaks or weeks. The newly built accommodation is located above a private indoor swimming pool which you have the use of for 2 hours a day. There is also a sauna and a jacuzzi aswell as an outdoor hot tub.
About The Website:
This website was built from scratch to advertise this unique holiday cottage. Text and images were provided by the customer but I designed the header. Web hosting and domain registration services were also arranged at a great price.
Sutton Staithe Cottages: Sutton Staithe, Norfolk
About The Business:
Two luxury Norfolk Broads cottages to rent. In one cottage dogs are allowed.
About The Website:
This website was built to help the business reduce the fees it was paying to booking agencies. It is already paying off and bookings are well up on last year. The website is search engine friendly and, although it is up against a huge amount of competition, performs well in searches on Google. An availabilty calendar has been included which the owners can update themselves and a link to a virtual tour of the cottages is provided.
Manufacturers:
Swimtek: Ingworth, Norwich
About The Business:
Leading UK manufacturers and suppliers of fiberglass swimming pools and swim spas.
Rowlands Bros: Aylsham, Norfolk
About The Business:
High volume precision sheet metal specialists. They offer punching and folding services and can produce components from stainless steel, galvanised metal, aluminum sheet, zintec and pre-painted materials.
E-commerce:
Caravan Accessory Shop: East Runton, Norfolk
About The Business:
Caravan and camping equipment. Huge range, low prices, quick delivery! Over 1500 products available from the following manufacturers: Al-Ko - Carver - Thetford - Truma - Whale - Hi-Gear - Camping Gaz - Fiamma - Purpleline and many more! The UK's No.1 supplier of Morco LPG Gas Water Heaters and gas level indicators. Other popular products include: Al-Ko Stabilsers AKS3004, PDQ Awnings and Enduro Caravan Mover.
About The Website:
Completely updated for 2008. The website is based on Cubecart v4 but features 100's of custom modifactions by myself. A fully functioning shopping cart website that can be updated in two clicks from the shop's stock database. Business is booming thanks to its well placed listings on search engines and Google Products (formerly Froogle).
Karen Rowlands: Alby Crafts, Erpingham
About The Business:
Karen Rowlands is a Norfolk artist, weaver and dress designer based at Alby Crafts. Her new online art gallery offers prints, originals and cards of her paintings aswell as weaving and examples of her dress designing.
Subjects include: Norfolk paintings, wildlife prints, Cromer Pier paintings and weaving.
About The Website:
This website was built using osCommerce and 100's of custom modifications. There is an easy to use back-end system which allows Karen to update the website as new artwork is completed.
Bluebird Galleries: Cromer, Norfolk
About The Business:
A gallery with a difference - From well known Norfolk artists to old photographs. Originals and prints by Andrew Dibben, Jason Partner, Mick Bentley, Bill Hudson, Rosemary Smith, Bob Farndon, Martin Sexton, Lance Beeke, George Debenham and many more.
Antique and photographic prints, picture framing service, literally hundreds of thousands of old picture postcards, collectibles and accessories for the collector.
About The Website:
This website was built using Cubecart v3. There is an easy to use back-end system which allows the owner to update the website when new stock comes in.
Interactive:
InQuizitive:
About The Business:
A fun website offering free pub trivia quizzes. Large database of quiz questions available to play online. You can now also have a game of Suduko or the classic Tetris! Originally built for fun to help me learn PHP and MySQL, the website now provides a steady revenue from unobtrusive Google Ads and the Ask.co.uk affiliate scheme. Around 300 unique visitors are attracted daily (as of October 2008) but this is growing steadily.
About The Website:
The website was developed from a free script provided by Neil Gardner of Multi Web Vista. The script was customised beyond recognition by myself. The questions are stored in a MySQL database and the new back-end system allows fast uploading of new quizzes directly from an Access database. Ranks well on Google for "free quizzes", "pub quizzes", "free quiz questions" etc.
Leisure:
Fishing Boat Pub:
About The Business:
The Fishing Boat Public House is situated in the tourist village of East Runton, a mile from Cromer in North Norfolk. Regular entertainment, idyllic beer garden, free pool table, pub quizzes and brilliant prices are just some of the reasons this traditional pub is so popular.
About The Website:
This was the first website I built using Joomla software. A full content-management system is provided so the website owners can change all information. This is particulary useful for adding forthcoming events and price changes.
New website in development: Caravan Park Directory.
Biography
Chris grew up in Leicestershire and left school, aged 16, with eleven GCSE's (including A grades in Maths, English and Science). He moved to North Norfolk in 2000 in order to help is his parents run a caravan park on the East Anglian coast near to Cromer. He spent 3 years doing manual work, learning valuable skills. In this time he also developed and maintained the business's website, developed a computerised booking system and learnt about book-keeping and accountancy.
Using contacts made in the caravan industry, Chris began selling caravan parts and in 2004 opened his own shop - The Caravan Accessory Shop. The shop's range quickly expanded to almost 2,000 products as his flare for sourcing and buying products developed. His IT knowledge helped him build a state-of-the-art, unique epos system which also took care of stock control and accounting procedures such as VAT returns.
With the arrival of eBay Chris found it was a perfect place to sell excess stock and improve cash flow during the quiet winter months. The mail order business soon overtook shop sales and in 2005 The Caravan Accessory Shop went in to partnership with KwikBreaks.co.uk to launch a web shop. Chris opened the shop's own website soon afterwards. Web sales now equate to 75% of the rapidly growing business.
Chris was asked to build a website for a local business in 2005. His service was recommended to others by them and several subsequent jobs followed from this. Chris has now built over a dozen websites and is happy to take on any new jobs over the winter months. He pays paticular attention to search engine optimistation and the ease of use for consumers. His websites are guaranteed to generate results - either sales for your shop, leads for your products or bookings for your holiday accommodation. He can also offer good e-commerce advice having run a successful web shop for several years.
Contact Me
To contact me, please use the contact form on the Seaview Caravan Park website and mark for the attention of Chris.
