Our redesign has made it onto Designm.ag titled 101 awesome portfolio sites. Alongside some world renowned web agencies and individuals: Happycog, Jason Santa-Maria, and Dan Cederholm’s Simplebits.

Disclaimer: This is someones individual opinion into current design on a variety of portfolio sites. We have not paid to be included!

However, we hope we have made it on because the copy is as eyecatching as the interface design. We are firm believers that if there is nothing to keep the visitor on your pages, then the site has failed, even though the design may have orginally caught their attention.

To keep the meme rolling, here’s 40 sites you should visit. Inspirational and Beautiful indeed!

Here are some recent successes at Callender Creates over the last couple of months that we think you should know about.

• We’ve been accepted into The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) for our clean and well structured code. We have done this from the start of our business, so it’s nice to get recognition for this.
• We have becomeBusiness link accredited suppliers. Where we are listed in the online directory which allows Local and National companies to contact us as a trusted and reliable company in Web Design and Development.
• This website has been listed in no less than 10 CSS galleries for our recent web site relaunch and rebrand. We are proud to be sharing space on these sites with some other fantastic examples of web design and branding.
• Finally, our company has been nominated by a long-term client for a Small Business Award for Sussex Business Awards. Watch this space!

We launched the Concordia International Volunteers in August.

Since then we have been getting great feedback from the charity based in Portslade.

Programme Manager, Fiona Taylor says:

The number of bookings has far exceeded out targets for this year, and it’s all thanks to the site review Callender Creates carried out, they executed the findings in the design and structure of the new site. Very Exciting.. We are just watching the traffic grow each month!

Site redesigns that are done well, are often regarded as switching a switch and letting all the visitors who could not understand the way to navigate around a site, and get the information they require.

In this instance, this has led to:

• Increase in number of bookings
• Increase in seo and accessibility
• With database work planned soon, to make searching and booking even easier online

We have used Google analytics and Crazy Egg to demonstrate to the client the actions and visitor journey on the site. We have explained also the way the pages are written can determine which pages the visitor clicks onto.

Check out the site at www.concordia-iye.org.uk

Exciting news regarding results of a National competition by Xchange team.

Jim Callender is the winner of the digital and media category for the Freelancer of the Year Award. He was awarded this at an event in London on 30th January 2007.

For more information on his thoughts, check out the blog post on his personal blog site at Jayonline.