Web design portfolio

Project: European Regional Economic Forum

Presentation: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash
Customer: Slovenian Business & Research Association
Purpose: Serve as an information-portal for the annual European Regional Economic Forum
Back-end: PHP, MySQL
Audience: Scholars & professionals interested in attending or contributing to the EREF
Description: The European Regional Economic Forum (EREF) is an annual event that is preceded by several workshops, each discussing one of the themes of the forum. Before our remake, the forum was served by a website with antiquated design and inconsistent and incoherent structure. We worked together with EREF to pinpoint the main focus of the website and organized the information so that it has a logical structure and can easily be accessed by EREF organizers and attendees alike.

Project: Concept Chalets - Mountain chalets & Apartments

Presentation: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript
Customer: Concept Bulgaria
Purpose: Present a number of vacation properties and services - from chalet/apartment booking to the booking of an airport transfer.
Back-end: PHP, Perl
Audience: People looking to book a package vacation in an authentic & luxurious chalet or apartment.
Description: Concept Chalets is a portal site with extensive information on the Bulgarian winter resort of Borovets - location, current weather, climate, bars & restaurants, activities, etc. Besides information on the resort the portal promotes several vacation properties for rent - luxurious chalets and apartments and allows the website's visitors to book their vacation and everything they require for it - from the airport transfer to the ski equipment and the lift passes.

Project: Winery Raynoff and Sons

Presentation: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript
Customer: Winery Raynoff and Sons
Purpose: Present the winery and the wines produced and attract new customers
Audience: Existing customers who would like to know more about the wines and the winery. New customers looking for boutique wines.
Description: Winery Raynoff and Sons is a small boutique winery located in Nisovo, Bulgaria. The winery had a previous incomplete website located at the cryptic URL www.wrs-nisovo.com, which stood for Winery Raynoff and Sons - Nisovo. The main goal was to redesign the website and make it much more appealing to the visitors, as well as have an updated list of the wines with much more in-depth information. As part of the online strategy proposed by Simplicity the new online home of the winery is www.raynoff.com.

Project: Royal Palace Hotel and SPA

Presentation: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript
Customer: Royal Palace & Co Ltd.
Purpose: Present the hotel and attract potential customers off the Internet
Audience: Anyone looking for a luxurious vacation hotel in a quiet place with wide choice of entertainment activities, sightseeing opportunities and museum visits.
Description: Royal Palace is a four star hotel in the picturesque village of Pisanets, in Northern Bulgaria. Until this website was launched the hotel had no advertising whatsoever. For that reason the main goal of the website was to be as search-engine-friendly as possible, as it would be the first ad of the hotel. For that reason the website was build in pure and valid XHTML despite the wide-spread popularity of hotel websites build with Flash. The website includes map from Google Maps including pictures added by third parties, in order to show the visitors the unique beauty of the region, captured by impartial Internet users.

Project: Concept Bulgaria

Presentation: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash
Back-end: PHP
Customer: Concept Bulgaria Ltd.
Purpose: Present the investment properties developed by Concept Bulgaria
Audience: Anyone looking to purchase a property in the exclusive ski resort of Borovets, Bulgaria, either for leisure or as an investment
Description: Concept Bulgaria Ltd. had a website in place that was presenting their properties but it was being about 4 years old and required heavy and tedious maintenance for regular updating. Their new website looks just like a design update but it is much more than that underneath. Everyday chores, as adding news items, importing monthly newsletters and keeping their clients up-to-date with Concept Bulgaria's construction process have been streamlined and automated. It's worth mentioning that this rework of Concept Bulgaria required that the website's search engine rankings should be preserved, as the website had been optimized by another company.

Project: Auto-Plaza.us

Presentation: XHTML, CSS
Back-end: PHP, SQLite
Customer: Diamond Conceptc inc.
Purpose: Portal for selling second hand cars
Audience: People in the USA looking to purchase a car. Car dealers who would like to sell their fleets on-line and at the same time be able to acquire cars offered by private individuals.
Description: Auto-Plaza.us is a newly started car portal targeted at car dealers. The portals allows car dealers, through a subscription process, to exhibit their available car pools for sale. At the same time it allows private individuals to submit their cars in order to be reviewed and possibly acquired by one of the subscribed dealers. The site is constantly developed and new features are released almost every month.

Project: Chamkoria Chalets Hotel

Presentation: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript
Customer: Concept Bulgaria Ltd.
Purpose: Present the Chamkoria Chalets Hotel complex - it's location, the leisure activities and availability of accommodation
Audience: People looking for a vaction spot in a mountain resort
Description: Auto-Plaza.us is a newly started car portal targeted at car dealers. The portals allows car dealers, through a subscription process, to exhibit their available car pools for sale. At the same time it allows private individuals to submit their cars in order to be reviewed and possibly acquired by one of the subscribed dealers. The site is constantly developed and new features are released almost every month.

Project: Dias - Esthetic Dermatology

Presentation: XHTML, CSS
Customer: Dias Ltd.
Purpose: Introduce the potential clients to the variety of procedures offered. Benefits, possible side-effects and ultimately attract new customers.
Audience: Anybody interested in the variety of esthetic and beautifying procedures offered by the client's office.
Description: Diasbg.com is a part of a larger complex campaign that aims at popularizing the company online and attracting new clients. The websites aims at being informative and honest about the procedures themselves, their effects, the required number of visits and also the duration of the procedures' effects. The website creation was bundled with a 3 month advertising campaign and quickly popularized the website.

Project: Diamond Concepts

Presentation: XHTML, CSS, Flash
Back-end: PHP, MySQL
Customer: Diamond Concepts SA / Diamond Concepts Inc.
Purpose: Presentation of the products and services offered by Diamond Concepts
Audience: IT professionals, IT and General Managers of banks and large corporations.
Description: Diamond Concepts contacted us for a whole overhaul of their existing website. They provide project management, implementation and customization of ERP systems for large enterprises. As such they needed an up-to-date design with ease of use and search engine optimization in order to increase the visibility of their website and their services.

Project: Shisharkite

Presentation: XHTML, CSS, Flash
Back-end: PHP, MySQL
Customer: Bulgarian Estates – Development LTD – joint Bulgarian-Dutch venture.
Purpose: Attracting customers for the company’s new real estate project – Shisharkite
Audience: People from Western Europe looking to purchase a second home in Bulgaria or to invest small amounts in a booming real-estate market.
Description: Shisharkite.com is a website presentation of a building complex by the same name located in Pamporovo, Bulgaria. It offers thorough description of the complex, the availability of the property, purchasing condition and a photo gallery. According to customer requirements the website was developed with a backend for easier management.

Project: Digital web-shop

Presentation: XHTML, CSS
Back-end: PHP, MySQL
Customer: Digital s.p.r.l., Belgium
Purpose: Presentation of the company and web-shop
Audience: Businesses and persons interested in the portfolio of security products offered by the company
Description: We developed a website that presented their clients with company information, past projects and their portfolio of products. The website also allowed their regular customers to easily order products online.

Project: Angelakov

Presentation: XHTML, CSS
Back-end: Ruby on Rails, SQLite
Customer: Private Individual
Purpose: Online presentation of a Bulgarian painter and his works.
Audience: Everyone interested in art
Description: The painter’s representative in London contacted us for a small website with general information of the author and several paintings as an example. We fulfilled all those requirements but also included a simple and easy-to-use administrator interface that allows new paintings to be added and already sold paintings to be removed from the website.