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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.

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.

Already a client of Gandy-Draper through the Canary Nightlife website, Paddy Macs Irish Pub in in Playa Blanca approached the company to provide a full website. Having just completed some work within the bar, Fergus and Hazel were keen to reflect the traditional feel they have worked hard to create.

Paddy Macs were keen to create a site that provided comprehensive information about the bar including information about their regular entertainment, and their full menus which vary throughout the day.

Bar owners in the Canary Islands commissioning a website through Gandy-Draper are provided with exposure on Canary Nightlife free of charge. The site has approaching 1 million hits a month, so generates additional traffic and assists with the sites SEO placement.

Paul and Sally Cook of Atlantic Islands Sailing S.L. contacted Gandy-Draper, before moving to Lanzarote, to set up their business so their new website would be ready in time for their launch on the island. Wanting an attractive and informative website, they provided some examples of existing yacht charter sites around the world, to demonstrate their taste and illustrate their aims with the site. The company offers bare boat yacht charters in Puerto Calero. Their aim was to promote the family nature of their business, and provide a level of information slanted towards the sailing fraternity.

The finished site,  in addition to details of their business, includes information on Lanzarote, Puerto Calero and a number of Google Earth links so prospective clients can explore the sailing possibilities around Lanzarote and the other Canary Islands.

Canvas Lanz sells specialist printing services including transferring clients pictures to canvas, canvas prints from their selection of images and promotional banners using their state-of-the-art printing technology. Canvas Lanz can usually be found either at Teguise market, or on the market at the Rubicon Marina in Playa Blanca. Wanting to extend their market Canvas Lanz naturally looked towards using the Internet to get the message out further across the island, and also enable them to offer deliveries also to the UK and mainland Spain.

They did have an original ‘home made’ site built by themselves but knew that to Internet sales they would need something that looked far more professional than they had created. The new site features a Flash intro, and links through to one of Gandy-Draper’s own sites which provides the client the opportunity to cost-effectively build up a gallery over a period of time.

Naturally Floors, one of the Canary Islands leading flooring companies, came to Gandy-Draper having seen and liked our work on a friends site we had previously completed. The client had an existing site created by a friend in England but felt it did not reflect their standing in the market. The brief was to create a clean and inviting site, reflecting their branding, whilst also including information on their suppliers, many of whom the company has exclusive distributorship deals with.

The resulting site is modern in style and uses a Flash intro to entice users further into the information provided and provides a wealth of links to the suppliers and ranges that Naturally Floors can provide throughout the Canary Islands. A contact form page displays on every page of the site to enable users to easily make an enquiry or request catalogues.

Gandy-Draper where approached by Costa Teguise business owner Paul Lonergan to provide a site which could offer villa rentals throughout the Canary Islands.

The resulting site canaryislandsdreamvillas.com answered all of the requirements at a relatively low cost compared to building the site from scratch. The adaptation of an out-of-the-box script to fulfil the brief ensured that the site was cost-effective whilst providing for all of the needs of the client. The site can be totally controlled by the owner from a versatile back-end administration system and offers a level of functionality not often available within the price range of this site build.

Fumiguard SCP is the only British owned pest control business in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Las Palmas. As a long established business the company already had an existing website which they felt was outdated, and did not portray the business as best it might, so wanted to bring the site up-to-date, and to reflect the professionalism of their services. Giving examples of a few sites, that the owners of the business liked, helped to give Gandy-Draper an impression of the client’s tastes, and the result is a clean, but highly visual site in both English and Spanish.