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Karsten Mathieu a long term Lanzarote resident approached Gandy-Draper to provide a website for his new venture, Transfers4You, promoting his Lanzarote airport transfer service.

The brief was to provide a very clean and easy to navigate site, and to provide a means of booking as simply as possible. The client had tested similar sites and was not impressed with the booking process on many.

The resulting site is organized in such a way that the booking is ‘fool proof’ once the user has made the decision on what they wish to book. Booking details are mailed to the site owner and the user has their booking securely confirmed instantly. At the request of the client, booking transactions are handled through moneybookers.com who offer a similar service to that of PayPal at less commission, and offer an easy and much less expensive means of opening a merchant account than the likes of WorldPay.

The site has English and German options for both content and order processing.

The Shurlock Inn is a pub in the village Shurlock Row, Berkshire. The story behind the project is that after 30 years with the same couple running what was the White Heart, the pub became available.

The company that owned the pub were considering closing it down much to the horror of the village. So much so that a consortium of seventeen of the local villagers got together to buy the pub, which has since been tastefully refurbished, re-branded, with a new mouth watering menu.

As part of the launch it was the intention to tie in with a new website and two of the new owners who own property in Playa Blanca approached Gandy-Draper to undertake the build. The result is a clean and modern site which reflects the new branding and decor of the premises.

Clarenden Stone is a financial services company established by Errol Wood on his return to the UK after living on the island for some years. Errol approached Gandy-Draper having worked on a number of previous projects with us and being so pleased with the level of service and results he had received.

The brief was relatively simple – the site had to be clean, easy to use, and make it very easy for viewers to make an intitial enquiry without the requirent for complex calculators or lengthy forms. The site also incorporates a Flash banner at the head of the page, and, at the clients request uses frames to display the pages.

Established Lanzarote Asesoria Ben Simkins approached Gandy-Draper with his idea for a new website to enhance his existing business in Costa Teguise. Ben wanted to develop a new website to enable second property owners the option to pay non-resident property taxes via the Internet. The new site uses forms to collect the appropriate information which is then easily processed by the team, thus enabling taxesonline.es to offer the service at a vastly reduced rate on more conventional services. The resulting website contains everything the company needs to meet their aims and is easily updated by the client.

Already a client of Gandy-Draper  through the Canary Nightlife website, La Bocaina Restaurant in Playa Blanca wanted to re-design their existing website build around a template with a custom design that reflected both the image and décor of the restaurant, and their position as one of the best restaurants in Playa Blanca.

Using a dynamic image menu helps to gain user interest – and most importantly make the dishes served at the restaurant the focus visually. The owners were also keen to promote their regular events, and demonstrate their ability to cater for many types of functions. La Bocaina is one of the few restaurants in Playa Blanca with the facilities and expertise to manage functions normally associated with – the more expensive option – hotels.

Bob Dickie, who already ran a villa rentals website covering the whole of Lanzarote, approached Gandy-Draper with a new project – Playa Real Villas.

Playa Real is an exclusive estate in Playa Blanca and Bob wanted a new site dedicated to the one estate.

The brief was relatively simple. The client asked for a clean and easy to navigate site that reflected the quality and market position of the villas it advertises.

The brief was relatively simple. The client asked for a clean and easy to navigate site that reflected the quality and market position of the villas it advertises.

Of course we know our way around the server side of our business, but every now and then we hit a problem, or in some cases when dealing with dedicated servers, outsourcing the engineering is more time or cost effective than doing it ourselves.

In these instances out first, and only, port of call is Tom at Maxim support. The first time we used him was when installing Ffmpeg onto the server we had set up for Live Angler. We had come to the conclusion that outsourcing this task would save us time, and our client money. Tom proved our assumption totally correct. The service was fast, efficient and cost effective.

Tom is a highly skilled server engineer totally committed to providing an excellent service, we can’t recommend him highly enough. Since we started working with him in 2007 he has become a highly valued business partner and friend.

If you need assistance with your dedicated Linux Server why not drop Maxim Support an email.

Geoff and Sue Lockwood approached Gandy-Draper prior to their arrival on Lanzarote to discuss the possibilities of a website for their new venture – Maceys.

The new supermarket in Tias fills a gap in the market importing quality and branded British and European produce.

Geoff’s background in the supermarket industry spans many years, and he has negotiated direct agreements with major distributors, which ensures that they can offer high quality products at prices that are kinder to your pocket. Fine wines, real ales, English treats, food staples, greetings cards and much more are all available from this new Tías supermarket.

The site was built with the ever changing ranges in mind and is easily fully updateable by the owners.

Buy Your Holiday is a website designed to advertise holiday properties worldwide. It’s free to register a holiday property on the site and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

Using an off-the-shelf script as a basis, Gandy-Draper have customized the look and feel, thus reducing the build costs.

The sites database is designed to make it as easy as possible for property owners to add their properties and allows direct links to their own websites or other sites for booking, for instance Owners Direct, as well as allowing enquiries direct from their listings.

So far the sit has properties available in the UK, US, Spain, France, the Caribbean, Australia and other countries and the number of listings is growing.

lanzaroteshop4me.com is a new website Gandy-Draper made for the owners of lanzarote-hireme.info. They provide a shopping service to both holidaymakers, villa owners and residents, delivering British and other produce direct to the door.

Utilizing existing off-the shelf software, coupled with custom design Gandy-Draper provided a website that whilst, new retained some of the original look and feel of their existing hire me site, and incorporated a shopping cart so that users can place an order prior to travelling to Lanzarote.

The site achieved the goal of providing a fully functioning shopping cart feature, and allows the users to update the product list and other pages easily themselves, whilst also being produced within a tight budget.