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New Leaf Health

Richard — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:54:17 +0000

New Leaf Health is a site built from our client’s Photoshop files. We quickly converted it to a custom Wordpress design and used my favorite theme, ‘Themaitic‘ for the framework. It was a fairly straight forward affair, Thematic makes it really easy to customise your design simply by using the functions.php file and filter hooks. Thematic’s default css styles are also rock solid and therefore easy to build upon. Anyway, it seems to be working for New Leaf Health as they’ve told us enquiries are coming in thick and fast , they are also adding some new content in the near future.

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Consult Solutions

Richard — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:37:13 +0000

Consult Solutions are a start up recruitment agency based in Birmingham. We seem to be getting a fair bit of web design work from that area of the UK at the moment and it all seems quite varied. They required a site that was ‘corporate cool’ and of course usable and accessible. I really think we delivered on this and so do the guys at Consult Solutions. The site has a bright white background and uses Wordpress as it’s CMS. There’s also a bit of jquery and cufon thrown that make this simple design something a bit special. I also should mention cforms the amazing wordpress plugin that made light work of the many contact forms that are used throughout the site, thanks guys.

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Apex testamonial

Richard — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:12:57 +0000

AmberCouch took our ideas and brought them to life. They were fast, efficient, and professional.

Jason Sizemore
Apex Publications

Apex Books

Richard — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:39:14 +0000

Apex Publications, publish science fiction and horror literature. Their retail site uses our favourite e-commerce solution, Shopify . One of the best things about Shopify is it comes with some very good pre-built templates. This mean that we we’re able to create a logo, header navigation, sidebar and footer at a fraction of the cost of creating a bespoke design from scratch. Apex were using the very popular vogue theme and using that as a basis we were able to create something that looked completely original simply by editing the CSS.

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Deviant Bubblegum

Richard — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:24:55 +0000

This is our latest design built around the shopify hosted shopping cart solution. Shopify gives designers complete control over the html, css and javascript of the site so it’s super easy to fit ecommerce functionality into any design. This was brilliant for Deviant Bubblegum because it meant we did not have to compromise the edgy, eclectic look and feel that they wanted for their shopping cart design. Deviant Bubblegum are based in Uta, USA and sell really interesting and strange clothing and art, mainly aimed at women and children. The design is feminine with elements of danger, grunge and creativity all of which create a really original shopping cart that is still accessible and intuitive.

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Cow Says Moo

Richard — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:40:25 +0000

Cow Says Moo Media are a design agency based in Kinver, near Birmingham. They provide quality PR and Marketing services to a variety of clients. They came to AmberCouch with a PDF of what they wanted their web site to look like but without the skills to take their document and turn it into a fully functioning web site. From that single PDF file we were able to get them live on web, in just a few days. Their web site didn’t require anything fancy like a CMS but we still decided to use Wordpress for its built in SEO and because it so easy to design for. We used the Thematic theme as our starting point and quickly developed a child theme for it. Thematic is an absolute star as it allows us to develop without hardly touching the HTML, saving us time and our clients money. Wordpress and Thematic are now are number one choice for any web design.

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Cosmo – Albums

Richard — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:00:51 +0000

Cosmo is a singer song writer based in Cardiff who needed designs for 4 albums. So here they are, we’ve used a simple design that incorporates strong colours and very hi-contrast black and white photographs. Visually the designs really pack a punch. Cosmo’s story like lyrics provided loads of ideas for us to play with and so that’s what we did. You’ll find images of religion, human dissection, self medicating animals, the cold war and suicide through out the art work, all of which are a reflection of Cosmo’s lyrics.

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Curious Tales

Richard — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:00:07 +0000

Robbie Graham of www.robbiegraham.co.uk designed this great looking website but Curious Tales needed the design to be made into a shopify theme. Julie-Anne, at Curious Tales, designs and makes really interesting and beautiful recycled fashion and was at first worried that Shopify would not be able to support such a detailed and quirky design but we assured her that Shopify gives you complete control over the look of your site and we weren’t wrong! AmberCouch made a near pixel perfect theme from Robbie’s photoshop documents and used some great google friendly markup to do it, the Shopify functionality just slotted straight into the code easy as pie!

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Curious Tales testimonial

Richard — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:22:55 +0000

Richard provided a very professional service, creating a workable website from my own design. He made the design work online and as it was intended. He also provided detailed information on how to implement the theme in Shopify. I was extremely satisfied and would highly recommend his services to anyone.

Julie-Anne Graham
Curious Tales

Chapter Maibock 09

Richard — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:33:04 +0000

Well Maibock’s been and gone but as ever AmberCouch got to have some fun producing some great flyers and posters to promote the ever popular german beer festival. Even though Chapter is still using it’s temporary bar because of renovation work, the festival was a great success.