Little Bird’s web design and digital media portfolio
Whether you are looking for a start-to-finsh web solution or something inbetween, Little Bird Web Services has a full range of web products and services to meet your needs. Here are just a few examples of Little Bird’s web design and digital media work.
The Government Finance Profession website
The Government Finance Profession (GFP) is a department of HM Treasury that is responsible for developing the implementation of strategies for improving management of financial resources across central government. They required a user friendly, cross browser compatible website that would allow them to interact with the 9,000 members of the Finance Profession spread throughout various locations and government departments in the UK
- Consultancy
- Creative design
- Web development (XHTML / CSS / jQuery)
- CMS
Expertas Colour Consultancy website
Expertas is an international colour consultancy business, specialising in the technical science of paints and pigments. The focus of the site design was the strong imagery used to illustrate the use of colour within the man-made environment.
- Consultancy
- Creative design
- Web development (XHTML / CSS / jQuery)
- Blog (Blogger) design and customisation
Robin Carter Illustration
The Robin Carter Illustration website is the online portfolio for freelance illustrator, Robin Carter who required an online presence for his illustration work. With the images being the focus of the site, text was kept to a minimum – letting Robin’s work speak for itself.
- Consultancy
- Creative design
- Web development
- SEO / PPC Adwords campaign
Norfolk IT Services
Norfolk IT Services is an IT consultancy and PC repair business based in Norwich. They required a website to promote their business in conjunction with a print based marketing campaign. The purpose of the site is to enable potential clients to view the products and services on offer from Norfolk IT Services and provide background information on the business.
- Consultancy
- Creative design
- Web development
- Graphic print design
LoveVampires book review site
LoveVampires is a fantasy fiction book review website. The challenge of this design was getting a vampire fiction look and feel while avoiding obvious gothic horror clichés. The site was also structured to promote usability and enable users to easily navigate their way around this large site.
- Concept
- Creative design
- Web development
- SEO
SP Pilates website
This site acts as a point of presence for SP Pilates, Pilates instruction. Its purpose is to provide timetable, cost and general class information for both potential and existing Pilates students. In order that clients can find class locations a Google Map page was a must.
- Consultation
- Branding
- Creative design
- Web development
- SEO
Norwich Web Designer
Okay, this is actually my old freelance portfolio from before Little Bird took flight. I still love the pug though (who can resist his little squashed up face and wheezy breathing?) so I’ve included it here. It’s also a good representation of work from my freelance career.
- Concept
- Creative design
- Flash video
- Web development
3D Flash animation
The static Envisage logo lent itself towards 3D since it appears to be made up of multiple images. I used Papervision to break apart the logo since 3D rendering enabled a much more realistic animation of the logo spinning apart than non-3D Flash animation techniques were capable of.
- Concept
- Flash development / ActionScript 3.0
- Papervision 3D
Flash animation for web page
This animated banner was designed to create visual interest on key web site pages and illustrate the company's corporate mission and values.
- Flash animation
- Creative design
Little Bird’s clients
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Little Bird works with:
- The Government Finance Profession
- Waterside Leisure
- Marta Acosta
- Balloon Dog
- Scion Sprays Ltd
- Norfolk IT Services
- Expertas Ltd
- SP Pilates
- Robin Carter Illustration
Latest project
The Norwich Wine Festival website
www.norwichwinefestival.org.uk
- Consultancy
- Creative design
- Web development:
(XHTML / CSS / jQuery) - HTML email design / broadcast
- Graphic design of printed materials
Norwich’s first wine festival needed an accessible website to provide detailed festival information and allow site users to book places on festival events and purchase festival tickets online. The creative brief for the site was simple – the site needed to look elegant and contemporary while conveying the visual message of wine and Norwich.
Integration with social media was essential for the site, so the festival’s Twitter messages were chosen to be displayed on every page of the site in a dynamically updating widget. Twitter played an important part in the festival’s promotion and was used to keep people informed of the latest festival developments. PayPal provided the shopping cart for online sales, with each page containing a clear call-to-action to buy tickets online.
Google maps are used to plot the locations of the various venues across Norwich that are participating in the festival so that festival goers can easily pinpoint any bars or restaurants that they may be unfamiliar with. JQuery was chosen to provide a sliding panel on the home page that displays the site’s key messages on a timed rotation. The festival site contains multiple forms and jQuery was also used to provide validation and error handling for the forms, reducing the risks of the festival organisers receiving incorrect data through the booking form and helping site users to fill out the form correctly.
In addition to designing and developing the festival website, Little Bird also designed all the printed promotional material for the festival – including flyers, posters, tickets and information booklets.