The Funk House has been busy building websites and here is one of the recent sites to go live. The website uses WordPress as a CMS to allow the charity SCIL (Southampton Centre of Independent Living) to edit the website and manage the content from different departments.

SCIL is a democratic membership organisation run and controlled by Disabled People.  We are committed to campaign for the full civil and human rights of Disabled People whilst supporting Disabled People to make use of current provisions available to enable them to live independently.

This project was unique as unlike other projects under taken by The Funk House the charity themselves built the website and The Funk House was their to teach basic HTML and CSS while using WordPress. It was a very rewarding project and it was great to be able to help such a worthy charity.

Future developments will include adding the functionality to allow users to view the website in different contrasting colours for those with visual impairments. This will involve creating a new WordPress Plugin for the website.

EDIT: The site has now been upgraded to include the new WordPress plugin to allow the user to change the colours of the website to help them read the website. This will be published for the everyone to use very soon. With the addition of this plugin not only can the user change teh colour contrast of teh website they can also use the enlarge text plugin to make the text larger if they wish.

It is good to note that these are a nice feature but we need to make sure the user knows how to change these settings in their own browser. It is always good practice that if you have these widgets to also have a page to let the user know how to change them in the browser without the use of these widgets.

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Atlas Marine required a refresh to their previous website to make it easier for them to manage and to also make the site look more modern.

They also wanted to use the site to advertise the fact that Atlas Marine are based in Southampton and Mallorca.
The website was set up to allow the owners to list boats from each country with some subtle design differences to reflect where the boat is from.

Now the owners are selling boats from two different countries are able to sue the same website to promote their boats.

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Another WordPress website built for VectorCommand Emergency Command System. They provide products such as the Command Support System (CSS), The CSS is a powerful new technology platform that solves a common operational problems for emergency commanders and managers around the world.

The website makes use of many new features created by The Funk House including some bespoke WordPress plugins. Included in the site is a JQUERY slideshow for the home page and a full slideshow for the owner to use separately on another page.

For this website WordPress was a great choice as it allows the client to edit the website from anywhere and to provide different permissions for people in their offices. The ease of use that is provides allows anyone with access to edit the website without any knowledge of code.

One of the plugins used on the website is a form builder plugin that allows the client to create and edit their own forms. This is a very powerful tool as it allows the client to create forms for specific events and offers they have again without knowing any code.

Along with the website we also created a flipping book which allows the user to view a interactive Flash book of their bulletin. This is a nice way to show off some of the photos in the bulletin and also have fun while flipping between the pages.

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A site built using the benefits of the easy to use content management system that is WordPress (with a few plugins).

By using WordPress templates and the use of a bespoke WordPress plugin the home page was easy to create and also easy for the user to update without any knowledge of HTML.

“The service from Lee was excellent.  The result of the web design exceeded my expectation.  Lee listened and correctly interpreted my requirements and my market.  The web site is easy to handle and update and that process was simply explained.  I cannot recommend highly enough ‘the funk house’ for your web design needs”

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