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Ask4Genie is a site specializing in bookings for excursions and events in Lanzarote. Unlike some similar sites the site offers direct bookings with companies themselves – thus minimizing cost and allowing fro many excellent discounts.

Gandy-Draper were approached during a period of reorganization within the business, initially to move the existing site and provide hosting. Some months later we were asked to propose for a redesign of the site to encompass some changes within the business and provide a fresh look and make the site as user friendly as possible.

The Business Finder Lanzarote site began life as Lanzarote Business Sales back in 2008. When the previous owner returned to the UK the business was taken over by Chris Sherratt Gandy-Draper were asked to re-brand to fit around the change of identity along with some minor modifications to the functionality of the site to fit in with the new owners.

This wasn’t a major task, but its always satisfying when a business changes hands that the new owners chose to continue with an existing relationship in this way.

Business finder Lanzarote is the only business transfer company on the island and offer an unparalleled level of integrity, honesty and service to anyone looking to buy and existing business in Lanzarote.

Carleton and Lana Van Selman, well known hoteliers and wine connoisseurs asked Gandy-Draper to produce a website for their new Lanzarote wine merchants business Bigvino.com.

BigVino as well as providing fine wines to Lanzarote bars and restaurants also offer a service to both residents and tourists can have wine delivered to their home or accommodation by the case. A new service to the island which will no doubt be more than welcomed buy its wine enthusiasts.

The site can be regularly updated with Lana’s wine articles, latest offers, new products and contains a shopping cart so wines can be ordered online.

Yvonne Lonergan approached Gandy-Draper when launching her new business Discover and Recover, which provides holidays and therapies for people suffering from Eating Distress. Gandy-Draper had previously created a couple of websites for her husband Paul’s businesses so were a natural choice when it came to produce a new site.

The brief was to create a bright, friendy and easy to use website that reflects the philosophy of the business and is easy for Yvonne to update herself as the services offered change and develop over time.

The first website built by Gandy-Draper in 2006 was for Dr Miguel Medina who owns and operates the British Surgery of Lanzarote. Based in Puerto del Carmen the multi lingual surgery caters to English, German, and of course Spanish speakers. Dr Medina spent a number of years working with the NHS so has the knowledge necessary to undertand the needs of his British clients.

Over time, all websites tend to age in technology and design and Dr Medina approached Gandy-Draper to refresh his online image and improve the SEO in line with the lastest practices.

Ben and Diane the owners of Dove Lanzarote approached Gandy-Draper having seen some websites previously developed for friends of theirs.

At the time Ben and Diane had a problem their previous web designers (not based on the island) and had lost all of the previous site. The brief was to obtain control of the domain name and to create a new site that retained most of the look and feel of the old site whilst also adding to it.

Looking very like the original the new site also includes a Flash banner of photographs (mostly from Gandy-Draper’s own stock) to add life to the home page.

Mike and Jules the owners of Villa Azul in Playa Blanca asked Gandy-Draper to create a website to supplement the promotion the property was getting via local letting agents.

Mike has been a prominent  member of the Canary Nightlife Forum – which is part of the Gandy-Draper owned and run Canary Nightlife website, so it seemed a natural choice for Mike and Jules to approach Gandy-Draper when it came time to build a website for their business.

The website is a relatively clean and simple site which offers a slide show of pictures of their very impressive villa, and extensive local information, including a map of Playa Blanca , showing some of the key facilities of interest to their guests, and testimonials.

Camel House Concerts, is the brainchild of  concert pianist Paul Crossley and Lanzarote resident Sir Ernest Hall. They have refurbished an old Camel Shed to house an annual series of concerts by world class musicians. Concerts are open to members who join by subscription, and private and corporate subscription.

The website, in addition to providing subscription information and information about the artists and performances, includes separate areas for members only, and information for artists travelling to the island.

QSI Group Limited engaged Gandy-Draper to re-design their existing website and assist with their re-branding, the time-scale being decided upon around a move to larger offices.

The original site had been in existence for some time. It looked dated and was in need of modernising to bring it in line with the professional standing of the company in their industry. Additionally SEO was an important factor in the project as the site figure poorly in Google, largely as the original had been built in frames.

The resulting site is clean, clear and SEO friendly. Gandy-Draper will be undertaking further work on the content and news sections in the future,  communicating with the UK based clients via phone, email and face to face meetings.

Daly Building Services approached Gandy-Draper to build a website with very clear ideas of what they were looking for in terms of design and what they wanted to achieve. As a long established company on the island they were best known for their ‘Dynamic Ceramics’ brand and were keen to promote their general building and property management services.

The site includes a revolving gallery which features completed work and before and after photographs of past work and the clean design and SEO friendly site achieved a page one position for key search terms on Google within days of launch.