Indigo-2

It with much pleasure - and also a sigh of relief - that we unveil the new site for Decho Creative Services.The site has proven to be our most technical yet, as it is the first time we had to internationalise a site, which is not as easy as it looks on paper. Thankfully the just released version 1.2 of CakePHP with its new i18n and locale functionality saved the day. Though it must be said it was a steep learning curve because the documentation on this feature is still forthcoming.

The new version’s caching engine also came in very handy, reducing the load on the server when fetching all the page translations, and speeding up page load times which is good news for everyone.

Aviatours - Fear Of Flying, who we posted about back in May 2007, have entered 2008 with a new and fresh design. Redone in XHTML and layed out purely in CSS, it makes for a much leaner site, which is good practice for both SEO, usability, and minimising bandwidth usage.

It’s more than just a reskin, we’ve also added an RSS feed for subscribing to news updates, an iCal calendar of all the course dates (thanks to the Bennu PHP iCal Library), and marked up all the contact and event data using microformats - which as you may have gathered we are big fan of.

Today we unveiled the new website for our good friends and former neighbours Allison Mitchell Limited. The site was purpose built so the client could add, change and rearrange its content with ease.

Behind the scenes, the site is using the CakePHP framework to accelerate development, and JQuery to achieve animate the menu and image gallery.

Indigo-2 has done some clever stuff with Code Igniter (an open source PHP framework) for Loans Checker. We designed and built this clean looking loans checking form for one of our clients who is involved in the affiliate marketing world. Under the surface, mulitple variables determine what fields are displayed to the user based on the data they enter.

We like flying. Some people don’t. We added a PHP driven booking form to aviatours.co.uk allowing customers to book fear of flying courses online. The booking form then takes the user to the payment processor (Google Checkout).

Indigo-2 have just completed the redesign of Stems Florist. Indigo-2 also shot all the flower photos. More on their blog.