Web Accessibility Auditor UK | Web Designer | Alan Gillies | Glasgow | Scotland

Tag: web design

  • CFOAS

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    The Conservative Friends of Africa / Scotland required a website for their new organisation. The site is designed using a WordPress theme which I customised by changing colours and layout. WordPress allows clients to update Posts and Pages themselves, giving freedom to expand their own content. There is also an Instagram feed plugin giving recent…

  • Glasgow plumbing and heating

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    A new website was created for T Cosgrove Plumbing and Heating based in Clarkston Glagow. They offer a varied and comprehensive service and installation of all gas appliances and a plumbing service to cover most plumbing emergencies. The website has a smartphone friendly design which is modern and accessible. My initial design had the headings…

  • Accessible Aromatherapy website

    Accessible Aromatherapy website

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    I created a website for Glasgow based aromatherapy consulant Tilly Aromatherapy. The design was chosen to not only look good, but to have clear accessible content. An Accessiblity Statement page was added to the website, giving people some background info of the steps taken to improve accessibility. Visit website.

  • Ivory and Brass Music Lessons Website

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    Nicola Hopkinson of Ivory & Brass provides private music tuition in piano and brass instruments. Nicola needed a new website and hosting package. A modern responsive website was the best option to promote her music lessons online. After feedback from my client I came up with a suitable colour scheme for her website. Next we also…

  • Shree Boutique Web Design

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    Shree Boutique Hair and Beauty Salon are based in Bearsden near Glasgow. A responsive design was one of their main requirements to enable smartphone browsing clients to view their services easily. New Logo Adobe Illustrator enabled me to create a new logo for the business based on ideas they had suggested. Choosing the font was…

  • Sondh Associates Architecture and Design

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    I recently created a new website for this established Glasgow based Architect firm. I used Adobe Muse to create the website. I found it fairly straightforward to use, but slightly lacking in customisation features. I had to export the website from Muse then open it in Dreamweaver and perform several html and css updates to…

  • The Scottish Rhododendron Society Web Design

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    The Scottish Rhododendron Society required a website to showcase there photographs and highlight the society membership benefits. Their old website had confusing navigation which made it difficult to access pages in an easy way. I wanted to feature a large slider on the front page to immediately showcase the Rhododendron  flowers. This is another Wordpress based…

  • Nova Blinds Milngavie

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    Nova Blinds are an established family business. They required a new responsive/fluid website for their Milngavie based Blinds business. A Bootstrap menu was integrated into the Top navigation bar, giving the website a responsive touch-screen friendly functionality. A Google map was embedded into their contact page. The website was created using Adobe Comp, Dreamweaver, Photoshop…

  • AA Web Solutions

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    I am a self-employed web designer and my main website is  AA Web Solutions. The site will be updated within the next few months with a new design and content. It is a few years old now and needs updating but it was one of the first of the new generation of responsive websites in the…

  • The Sustainable Web

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    Sustainable web design i am interested in the concept of creating web sites which are less harmful to the environment. The most damaging aspect of some designs is the size and amount of images on a site. Higher emissions of CO2 are produced by large image dominated sites, due to more loading and processing. If you…