Archive for the ‘Selected Portfolio’ Category

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.

Playa Blanca businessman Stuart Chambers approached Gandy-Draper to supply a website to promote his new venture Playa Blanca Rentals. Playa Blanca Rentals is a low-cost service aimed at residents or people moving to Playa Blanca who are looking for long term rental villas and apartments. The brief was to supply a site that looked clean and inviting and communicated the simplicity of the service offered, and to present the venture as a cost-effective alternative for both owners and tenants to the way in which long term rentals in Playa Blanca have previously been arranged. Playa Blanca Rentals has also retained Gandy-Draper to provide online promotion and marketing consultancy support as the business develops.

Already a client of Gandy-Draper´s advertising and marketing services, Graham and Susan, the owners of Hubs and Tubs approached the company to provide a web site for his new venture, a bike and hot tub hire shop in CC Papagayo, Playa Blanca. The aim of the site was to promote their services via a clean and uncluttered site which showed off, as well as conventional bikes, their more unusual and exclusive offerings. The site offers booking enquiries and also includes embedded YouTube footage of the stepper bike, for which the company has an exclusive distributorship deal for throughout the Canary Islands.

The Irish Anvil is one of the best known bars in Playa Blanca, with it’s fantastic sea view terrace overlooking Fuerteventura, and their nightly entertainment. The brief was to create a simple, low maintenance and attractive site that communicated the bars reputation for fine food and entertainment. Tying in with the forum on Canary Nightlife allows users to provide feedback and reviews of the bar without the need for monitoring, and the time that involves, by the bars owners.

Mathparri, an exclusive hair and beauty salon in Puerto Calero marina approached Gandy-Draper to redesign an their site. The existing site had been put together by a friend. The brief was to provide the salon with a site more in keeping with their very strong branding and present and reflect their high end of the market positioning. In addition the company had very ambitions expansion plans to offer Mathparri branded salons as a business opportunity throughout Europe through one of Gandy-Draper’s other clients, Lanzarote Business Sales. It was thought that for the future development of the brand and their planned expansion a much more professional website was a must.

26 Chalets is a new development of 26 properties in Playa Blanca. If you know Playa Blanca it’s unlikely you have missed their big red banners as you enter the town from Yaiza. UGR, the Spanish property developers, already had a website but were looking for a redesign as the original was built entirely in Flash and had a number of limitations due to this. Firstly, the owners wanted to be able to update the site easily, and secondly, the site was not figuring as well in searches as it might. UGR wanted to rectify these issues and came to Gandy-Draper with this brief.

The resulting site though incorporating an number of Flash elements is built primarily in HTML, and answers the original brief. With some knowledge of the Internet UGR can now update their site easily using Dreamweaver, and the Flash elements are all extremely easy to update. The site is available in both English and Spanish.