Portfolio of websites designed by Graham Boston

Accredited Website Designer, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

With a background in publishing and graphic design, I designed my first web page in 1996. For me, designing websites is an opportunity to create something aesthetically pleasing that also works on a practical level, bringing clients new business and new contacts, often from all over the world.

In August 2006 I became an accredited Business Link web developer.

Here is a selection of the sites I have designed between 1997 and 2008, starting with the most recent:

Evelyn Harvey is a medical writer specialising in the study of tuberculosis. Currently working on her Phd, she also writes articles for the scientific community and science sections of newspapers such as The Guardian.

Evelyn needed a simple website to promote her medical writing services, and which enables potential clients to contact her easily. The site is valid XHTML 1.0.

Website completed March 2008.

Nigel de Berker is a Tree Consultant with many year's experience of working in the arboricultural field, both as a tree surgeon and consultant.

The brief for the Wessex Tree Consultancy website was to have a basic online presence and provide information on the various services offered.

Website completed November 2007.

Joy de Berker is an artist working near Bath, and married to Nigel, above. she paints landscapes, seascapes and other subjects using oils, acrylics and other media. The brief was to create an online gallery of her work, as well as provide information about her working methods and forthcoming exhibitions.

As with Our Paris Apartment (below), all the information is presented in one page, yet in a visually simple, accessible and easy to use way. The site is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and fully compatible with the latest web standards as defined by The World Wide Web Consortium.

Website completed August 2007.

Pilgrims Mind Body Spirit is a (real!) shop located opposite the Chocolate and Fudge shop below. For this site the client, Bill Anderton, wanted an update to the site I originally designed in 1998, and which he could populate with products himself. Another requirement was that music clips from audio cds could be played easily.

Like his other site, it employs a full eCommerce and customer-management system for the smooth processing of orders.

Website structure completed June 2007, Site live in August 2007.

Pilgrims Chocolates and Fudge is situated in College Court, next to Gloucester Cathedral. The proprietor, Bill Anderton, whose Pilgrims Mind Body Spirit website I designed in 1998 (see below), asked me in July 2006 to give his existing Chocolates and Fudge website a makeover, and to automate the sales and customer management process.

The site has a full 'shopping basket' system and private areas for wholesale and corporate customers. All the products (fabulous chocolates, mounds of fudge and old-fashioned sweets such as sugar-mice) were photographed in-house and retouched using Adobe Photoshop.

Website completed November 2006.

Testimonial (110k, Adobe Acrobat file).

If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, it can be downloaded at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html (free, 15.MB). Alternatively, it is available on the CDs that come with computer magazines.

Our Paris Apartment is a newly renovated apartment in Le Marais, in the vibrant heart of Paris, and is available for holiday lets.

The brief was to create a site that contained all the information a potential guest might need to know, such as local places of interest, maps, booking form, enquiry form, photographs, room layout map etc, yet avoiding the complexity of a multi-page site. The client wanted the site to have the look of an interiors magazine article, to reflect the contemporary chic of the decor.

Website completed June 2006.

Olivia du Monceau is a young production designer working in theatre and films, and a graduate of LIPA, the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. Her website, which is very simple in design, shows examples of her stage-craft, and its visual theme is based on her smart black and pink business card.

Website completed March 2006.

Jenna Monroe is a talented singer, pianist and singing teacher, living in the UK. The brief for this site was that it should enable potential agents to hear her vocal skills and be able to contact her quickly and easily.

You can listen to clips from a wide variety of her songs, in both lo- and hi-fi.

Website completed February 2006.

Règne is a beautiful 10-bedroomed country house located in south-western France. It is available to let as either one or two separate properties (La Grande Maison and La Petite Maison).

The brief was to design a site that evoked 1950s visual style, whilst avoiding the usual clichés of holiday websites.

Website completed February 2006.

Lucy Byatt. Lucy is an illustrator, sculptor, cartoonist and film-maker based in Cheltenham. She designed the pages and asked me to put a site together using Macromedia Dreamweaver, then host it. The job needed to be completed within 10 days, in time for the 2005 Florence Biennalle.

Website completed December 2005.

The Centre for Contemporary Furniture. Based in the fashionable Montpellier area of Cheltenham, the Centre showcases the work of contemporary furniture makers and designers. They wanted a site that would match their ethos of good design, simplicity and style. It is a flash-enabled site, since animation has been used throughout.

Website completed Autumn 2003.

Please note that the Centre has now closed, due to flood damage in August 2004.

Sound Travels - Music cds, clothing, sensual products and more... Sound Travels sells an eclectic mix of music cds, clothing, lighting and other products from around the world.

The site is fully e-commerce enabled, and once the framework was set up and graphics such as the large banner designed, I trained the proprietor, Jonathan Barnett, in how to add products to the site, take orders and to make changes as and when he wishes. Google picked up the site automatically, and within two weeks of being online, Jonathan was receiving on average an order per day.

The site was expanded dramatically in the autumn of 2004 by the addition of over 7,000 individual audio clips, so that you can listen to samples from every CD he sells.

1st phase of website completed Spring 2004.

Please note that since November 2007 this website has been redesigned by someone else, so is no longer part of my portfolio.

Laurence Owen is a new young British figurative painter and animator. In 2005 he won a New Young British Talent prize given by the Boundary Gallery, London. He is the son of John and Fiona Owen (see below).

This website was commissioned by John and Fiona for Laurence's 21st birthday, and contains examples of his paintings, drawings and sculptures, as well as stills from an animation. The aim with this site was to present Laurence's portfolio in as simple, clean and accessible a way as possible. It contains an example of a simple java animation.

Website completed September 2005.

Training Evaluation Solutions, co-run by James Hunt, provides companies with a way of evaluating the changes in behaviour, attitude and work methods in staff brought about by training courses they have run. I was asked recently in April 2005 to create a website based on the style of an existing website they had created.

The site keeps mostly to a simple frame, so there is almost no scrolling required. To move from page to page you either click on the 'next page' button (bottom right) or use the large navigation bar, which highlights the page you are looking at.

Website completed April 2005.

John and Fiona Owen are two artists and gardeners who live in Chalford, Gloucestershire. They exhibit their work each summer and their beautiful garden is simultaneously open to the public under the National Garden Scheme. The layout is the same as the Our Venice Apartment website.

Website completed December 2004.

Our Venice Apartment ('Piccola Perla') is Valerie's latest venture into the world of property - an apartment in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. This is a very simple, one page site that needed to be created quickly. It took five days from start to finish, and was designed in close consultation with Valerie.

Website completed September 2004.

DTCInternational provide executive and management training to a range of well-known blue chip companies. Since I designed their original site in 1997 (redesigned in 2000), they have won several prestigious contracts from companies across the globe, who found them on the Internet.

1st website completed 1997, redesigned in 2000.

www.careerfulfilment.com This site has an online personality test devised by me and James Hunt, together with a downloadable eBook that can be purchased and downloaded instantly.

Website completed December 2002

Hartley Pool is a comedian and comic script-writer, whose site is a showcase for his multiple comic personalities.

Website completed February 2004

Please note that this is a temporary web address for Hartley's site.

Interconnections is a large mind-body-spirit website that I run, which provides background information on a full range of complementary therapies as well as links to related practitioners, associations and professional bodies. It currently receives over 300 visitors per day from the UK and around the world.

Website designed Spring 1997 (ongoing updates).

Rosamund Webster is a yoga and meditation teacher, and this is an example of an inexpensive, template based site costing around £250 for the site, £69 for the first year's hosting (£25 p.a. thereafter) and £30 for registration of his domain name for 2 years.

Website completed Summer 2003.

"I get most of my new yoga students through my website" R.W., July 2007.

Phil Phillips is a clairvoyant, and like the above site this is based on a template ideal for individual therapists and practitioners.

Website completed Summer 2003.

June Clarke is a Past Life Healer, and this is another example of an easily affordable site. Website completed Summer 2003.

Valerie du Monceau is a Feng Shui consultant based in London and Gloucestershire, UK.

Website completed February 2002.

Office Solutions run by James Hunt, provides efficiency solutions for small businesses.

Website completed Spring 1999.

Careerandlifecoaching.com. James is also a career and life coach, drawing on many years' experience of running self-marketing and outplacement workshops for organisations across the UK, as well as one-to-one work with individuals who are stuck in their personal or work lives.

Website completed Spring 2003.

Maria Mercati is the leading UK exponent of Thai Massage and Tuina Massage, and offeres training courses, books and videos on these and other oriental bodywork techniques. From her website she provides information on her courses and provides books and videos for sale internationally. Although I initially created her site in 1999, her son has gradually modified it over the years and it no longer resembles it's initial version. Website designed Autumn 1999.

www.bodyharmonics.co.uk

Pilgrims are a New Age bookshop and 'mind-body-spirit superstore based in Gloucester. Bill Anderton, who runs Pilgrims, updates his website daily with the latest news, book, cassette and CD titles as well as a whole variety of interesting background information, reviews and services.

Website completed September 1998, completely redesigned in 2007.

Aquarius Severn are an astrology group based in Cheltenham who use their site to keep members and local astrologers informed about their current programme of talks, seminars and classes.

Website designed Summer 2001 - Ongoing updates.

www.livingastrology.com My own astrology site, where you can purchase an instantly download your Planetary Profile, written by me!

Website designed April 1999 - Ongoing updates.

Ps this site really needs a facelift!

Yesil Dunya is a Turkish Holiday company that offers courses in Yoga, Shiatsu, Astrology etc combined with exploration of Mediterranean Turkey.

Please note: Although the site is visible, it is no longer 'live' as the business is no longer in operation.

Website completed Spring 2001.

Contact

Graham Boston,
PO Box 156, Cheltenham GL52 3YQ
Telephone: (01242) 228796
Fax: 07020 969940
Email gboston@interconnections.co.uk

Benefits

I design and host websites for individuals, companies and organisations in the Gloucestershire area, although if you are happy to communicate by email, phone, post and fax, you could of course be anywhere in the world! I particularly enjoy working with people involved in an artistic or holistic field.

Having a website enables you to:

promote yourself, your products or your services around the world, for a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising
Sell products and services directly over the Internet, automatically, using secure e-commerce facilities
Be listed in search engines such as www.google.com, so increasing your exposure enormously
Enhance your professional image, by adding your email or Internet address to your stationery and marketing literature
Network and communicate with existing and potential clients, both in the UK and overseas

Options

You can have anything from a simple template-based site starting at only £250, to a fully a la carte service designed to your own specifications.

Your site can also be hosted, from only £75 per year, to £150 for larger sites.

Optionally, you can have your own domain name ('www.yourname.com') and/or your own secure credit-card transaction facilities, so that you can sell products direct from your website to customers around the world.

To discuss your needs, please call me for a no-obligation chat on (01242) 228796. I will do my best to answer your questions and clarify your options.

If you are serious about wanting a website, call me to arrange a free, no-obligation meeting at my home in Cheltenham.

Why Choose Me to Design Your Site?

Since I work from home in Leckhampton, Cheltenham (Gloucestershire), my overheads are low, and because of this I am able to offer competitive rates compared to most web design bureaux. I am flexible in the way that I work, and clients have told me they appreciate that I have understood they may be unfamiliar with the technical side of computers and graphics, and my guidance in turning their ideas or wishes into reality.

My aim is to help you have a web site that fits in with your individual aims or the aims of your business or organisation.

My philosophy is to empower you rather than making you dependent on me, by providing you wherever possible with the tools and know-how to be able to update your site for yourself. That way you won't have to keep paying me to do it for you!

Testimonials

Pilgrims Chocolates and Fudge.

About Me

I am interested in all aspects of living holistically, and teach astrology as well as see clients for astrological consultations. In 1994 I gained a practitioner certificate in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), the learnings from which still powerfully inform my work and life. In 1997 I wrote 'Astrology, a Beginner's Guide', published by Hodder Headline, and co-authored, with James Hunt, The Career Fulfillment Guide'.

I publish Gloucestershire Connections, a bimonthly broadsheet began in 1992 with the late Peter Hewitt, author of 'Science of the Gods'.

My personal website is at www.grahamboston.com.

Thanks for visiting!

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