A recent big success at B Websites has been the website revamp for fluentintuition – a local language training facility based in Woking.
fluentintuition is run by the amazingly focussed Nikki Oliver Pentucci who came to us after being recommended by the equally amazing Caroline Arthur for whom we created a website last year. fluentintuition provide a range of innovative language learning courses and experiences, such as book clubs, cookery classes as well as the more traditional training.
The branding was already in place so our brief was to reuse the company colours to create a new accessible and easy to use website with 50+ pages and on-line booking system.
The entire website had to be planned from the ground up. Part of the challenge was that we had just 3 weeks to plan, design and build the site since it needed to be ready for the September term and to top it all Nikki was to take a (well deserved) holiday half way through our development time.
In terms of the back end and user experience we included a massive list of features:
- 50 + pages all with their own custom banner
- Tweet this, send to friend, bookmark this
- Print button with print friendly version
- Facility to upload and store 100′s + PDF downloads
- E-commerce to allow visitors to book and pay for courses online
- Secure area for fluent training materials
- Newsletter sign up
- Easy to use navigation (so no drop downs!) which includes a breadcrumb (the “you are here” but at the bottom of the page)
- Integration with the existing fluent database
- Extensive cross browser testing (let me know if you spot anything…)
- Lots of work on SEO to retain the links and credibility obtained from the previous website
And to top it all fluent can manage every aspect of their website using our bespoke SMART CMS (which we’ve tailored specifically for this project) along with full technical support from us for the lifetime of their website.
We have thoroughly enjoyed working on this project. Designing websites that are easy to use and include such a lot of data is not always easy.
