Wrecclesham Conservation Group

Although thriving on social media, Wrecclesham Conservation Group needed a website to consolidate its online identity and provide a permanent access route for its busy events calendar. As pro bono work, we unashamedly repurposed substantial elements from a now-defunct client website, but added lots of new functionality specific to the needs of the group. In particular we incorporated the facility for cataloguing details of wildlife, for example this list of locally found moth species.

Furthermore, Kourou's file management facility was able to be customised to be the administrative interface for the archive website underpinning photo gallery delivery on the main site at launch – with the prospect of further sophistication being added in the future to reflect the group's interests in both local ecology and history. This kind of flexibility is simply not possible with the "instant website creators" that are so popular, but lead the unwary into technological dead-ends.

Charlotte Lade

Charlotte Lade is probably the top female professional football freestyler in the world, and needed her own "quick-win" website to support her promotion company's latest publicity drive, and based on her existing artwork.

Charlotte's site was the first of our Kourou websites to employ HTML5 and mobile responsive design, to ensure best compatibility and customer reach on devices such as smartphones and tablets as well as desktop. Customers of all our future developments will be encouraged to embrace similar technology to maximise the potential of their websites.

Highshot Events Children's Parties

By way of keeping up to date with more recent developments (a new member of the family has inevitably meant considerably less time and energy to put into web stuff!), here is Highshot Events Children's Parties, promoting the latest venture from our long-time friends at Highshot Events whose own website was an early Kourou implementation.

It's a technically fairly simple site but the design brief was to be fun and child-friendly whilst not actively childish, so we've incorporated animation and a few other eye-catching features along the way.

eMersion Language

Just a simple "quick win" site for an existing client promoting her new English/French tutoring business, eMersion Language.

That's really pretty much all there is to it, but it's exactly what the client wanted, and there are still some useful custom features such as an event calendar.

Danny Bowen Airbrushing

A simple but stylish website to promote Danny Bowen Airbrushing.

Artists invariably want their websites to look better than great, and that's no bad thing. We think we've delivered, with the help of Kourou and jQuery.

Impulse Engineering

Over a year in the making but worth the wait, the new Impulse Engineering website is finally here! It is perhaps our most "corporate" website yet, yet it still maintains the personality and approachability of the company and its staff.

In common with several of our more recent developments, this site makes extensive use of the popular de-facto standard jQuery scripting framework to provide attractive visual interactions.

The Garden Consultancy

An attractive little website overhaul for Alistair McVean's landscape garden design business The Garden Consultancy.

Full-window background images seem to be all the rage but can be heavy on resources, but we've always been conscious of those without the latest and greatest computers and/or internet connections, and think we got it about right with the help of Kourou and jQuery.

Armadillo Pets

A brand new website published today, for a brand new business! Armadillo Pets offer pet-sitting, walking, visiting and other furry-friend related services in Farnham, Surrey and the surrounding area.

The website is implemented in Kourou, with various customisations, based upon a "960-pixel" concept from third-party business Designer Mate. The jQuery and Prototype libraries are used to help power some of the more sophisticated user interaction. The client is happy that the finished website is the most attractive of any local competitors.

Zonta Club of Guildford

The Zonta Club of Guildford is a local branch of Zonta, a global organisation of executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy.

The website is an intentionally minimalist Kourou design, with a few elements subtly animated with Flash, and using a database-driven calendar to promote future events for the club.

SFM Project Management

Another new site for an existing client, SFM Project Management offers services to self-builders. Text content, titles and so on were all defined by a friend of the client.

As Kourou sites go, it's pretty straightforward, not employing any particularly fancy features or plug-ins, but that reflected in the speed of design and implementation - and therefore the overall cost to the client.

Highshot Events

Produced to support a new venture for an existing client, Highshot Events promotes a clay pigeon shooting business. Based at the upmarket Groomes hotel in rural Hampshire but also offering a quality mobile service, Highshot Events needed a website that was, in the words of the client, "calming, inviting and exciting" and consistent with the country/rural feel of both the hotel and the business. We hope you'll agree we've succeeded!

We'll be honest and admit we're not the biggest fans of Flash, since it can make websites slow, fiddly and unreliable to use. However used judiciously it can enhance some sites, with Flash being used for the fancy slideshows at the foot of many of the pages on this one. We also use Goznet Systems' proven square_thumb_gallery on the site, making it easy to add stylish browsable photos into the mix.

Farnham Conservative Club

Farnham Conservative Club needed to move with the times and get themselves on to the web, and Kourou proved the ideal system to help them do so. The website uses various photographs - some provided by the client and some taken by Goznet Systems during a guided tour of the premises. An interesting feature of the website is the sidebar menu, including an option for special events, with everything easily updated by the client.

The Urbanist

Gone live today is the website for top airbrush artist The Urbanist, to coincide with his appearance on ITV's Daybreak alongside Adrian Chiles, Christine Bleakley and special guests Katie Waissel and Paije Richardson from the X Factor.

Roda Golf Holiday Lets

Roda Golf Holiday Lets website rolled out live today. Content and SEO by a friend of the client, but all design and implementation by Goznet Systems. Kourou does the business yet again, including the first outing for the funky new square_thumb_gallery quick and easy photo gallery plug-in.

MAN with MOWER

Put those stripes back on your lawn with the help of MAN with MOWER - yet another quick win for the Kourou content management platform!

Billy Fincham

Billy Fincham is a top football freestyler, and needed to get on the web quickly but in style. We were able to deliver, thanks to Kourou, with a simple but distinctive looking website including extensive use of photos and video.

Arthur Boustead Building and Joinery

Arthur Boustead Building and Joinery is a brand new Kourou-based website, structurally very simple and created to a tight budget, but still looking good and functionally rich with an intentionally "retro" feel.

Top Dog Workshops

We are pleased to announce the launch this evening of the new-look Top Dog Workshops site, created in conjunction with local graphic designer mellowdesign.