I finished the redesign of the Website of the Bervie Guesthouse last December. I have since  gotten a lot of indirect positive feedback through the owners of the Bervie.

I now made contact through facebook to the photographer John Cowman, who has known the Bervie for quite a while and contributed the main photo gallery to the old and also new website

John gave me the nicest feedback about the Bervie website, I ever got about any website:

“Love it. A work of art, which really captures the special nature of the place. You must have stayed there, or you’re fantastic at taking a brief, or both. Simple, very refined, concise, beautifully styled and extremely attractive. It’s possibly the best site of it’s type I’ve seen. Nice coding, too. [...] I wouldn’t mind seeing any other sites you’re proud of.”

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This WordPress-Website is using a minimalistic custom design and so far the following plugins: Contact Form 7, FD Feedburner Plugin, Headspace2, Redirection, Search Everything, Top Level Categories, W3 Cache and Yoast Breadcrumbs.

The template is optimised to be as sleek as possible and already now, without any compression on the server enabled it does not exceed 100KB.

The site will probably go live somewhen next week. For a preview, see interactions.kerndter.net

Tags: Contact Form 7, FD Feedburner Plugin, Headspace2, Redirection, Search Everything, Top Level Categories, W3 Cache, Yoast Breadcrumbs

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This Website is driven by a highly-customised WordPress 3.0 “Thelonius” installation, using a custom design and the following plugins: AddThis Sidebar & Social Bookmarking Widget, Category Order, Category Page, Contact Form 7, FD Feedburner Plugin, Headspace2, Index PDFs, My Link Order, Redirection, Search Everything, Top Level Categories, WordPress Download Monitor, WP Super Edit, Yoast Breadcrumbs.

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The last few days have been very exciting, as we were able to finish, test and release the Import/Export Tools for XT:Commerce we have been developing over the last weeks for a customer.

The in-built import/export possibilities of XT:Commerce are rather simple and do not really work, as they dump some undocumented csv file, and that only for products. Even the apparently existing interface to the German accountancy software Faktura is not really working as there are several problems, e.g. regarding the import/export of graduated prices. (more…)

Tags: export, import, mysqldumper, open source, xt commerce

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Browne Brothers - Site Services

brownbrothers.ie was the second design we did for eWrite. This customer wanted a website designed to promote their landscaping services, including, General Landscaping, Maintenance, Hard Landscaping, Safety Surfacing and Play Grounds.They had no existing logo or preference for colours to use. They wanted the site to reflect their services and each page of the site to show an image in the background relating to their 5 areas of work. The site title had to be “Browne Brothers” with “Site Services” in smaller text. The title text had to be a strong font in green colour.

We were given no reference page and were to create  an open design, to include plenty of images of their work in the background or foreground. Preferred color was green.

Tags: css, design, esthetiks, eWrite, xhtml strict

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Gerard Kearney - Close-up Magician

Gerard Kearney is a magician and needed a website designed to promote his service. He is a close up magician providing entertainment at weddings and corporate functions. His typical interaction with a group is casual. There is no stage, he interacts with a group of people and spends a few minutes providing entertainment to the group by performing a few acts.

The request was for a basic, 1-5 pages design, which had to be dark,  mysterious and akin to magic, mystery and intrigue, using dark colours like black and grey. The website should be superior to websites of competing magicians.

The Website for Gerard Kearney was the first job for eWrite. Here we did the design and turned them into templates to be us used with eWrite Lite CMS

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