Property is nine tenths

This London apartment property website is now live. Featuring flash image maps of the apartments by floor level, special loops to show the various apartment plans, virtual tours of the show apartment and lots of shiny brochure images.

As time goes on the apartments will be marked sold or reserved so website visitors will be able to see at a glance which apartments are available.

The proximity to Hampstead Heath in northwest London is an attraction which may well be reflected in the property prices...

CMS a la Wordpress 3.0

Well, it's here and there are some significant improvements...

Allan McNish starts the Le Mans 24 Hours

Dumfriesshire born Allan McNish starts the Le Mans 24 Hours in 6th position, 3rd row on the starting grid. Race starts at 2pm (BST) on Saturday 12th June, 2010...

Wholesale seed potato merchants

Jamieson Brothers now have a merchant website for wholesale supplies of Scottish seed potatoes. This is database driven with use of php and asp scripts to control content display and user account features, and was developed in partnership with the prodigious Kit Allen.

This runs in conjunction with the "JBA Direct" website that is geared towards selling seed potatoes to domestic customers in the UK.

The wholesale site has been built specially for garden centres, allotment societies and other seed potato merchants so that they can benefit from trade prices when they buy seed potatoes in bulk quantities.

NextGen Gallery again

The existing Comlongon Castle website image gallery module was struggling to cope with the volume of images so it was time to employ a Wordpress installation with the renowned NextGen gallery plug-in to help organise the photos into themed galleries (AJAX pagination) with slideshow and piclens options.

This is to be achieved using an alternative Comlongon Castle domain as a sort of mirror to the main site so that web visitors can switch between the two resources, with each resource being able to provide either text content and documents, or images.

By extension, this could also be applied to video content - at the moment the Comlongon YouTube channel is in it's infancy but this is the ideal resource to host video content that links back to the main 'outcome' site, where web visitors can complete goals such as make contact or use the wedding calculator to generate a guideline wedding quote.

Property in north west London

Callisti is currently assisting with Glentree homes with their West Heath Place website development for new apartments in NW11 (off Finchley Road, near Hampstead Heath.)

The site will include virtual tours of selected properties, interactive floor-plans for the apartments, and sold/reserved notifications.

Selling property in London is a highly competitive market so some sensible SEO strategies are required...

What is the standard screen size anyway?

What are you designing for?

There is a glut of possible display resolutions or screen sizes for your viewing interface now, largely due to variation and convergence of traditional computer display screens, digitalisation and wide screen, then HD television.

These are roughly split between 3 main contenders:

18% approx - 4:3 ratio (following in the great VGA tradition)
42% approx - 16:10 (Widescreen)
20% approx - 5:4 (1280x1024 pixels)

It is a design consideration for fixed width display websites but also for desktop wallpapers based on bitmap images. There are some new Allan McNish images available on the official website...