BeaverTree.co.nz has been upgraded!
February 9th, 2010 | 4,110 views
The official website of Beaver Trees & Landscaping has been upgraded!
This is what the web designer Joseph Ku has to say:
(article from kudesign website)
“First of all, I would like to congratulate the busy beavers for their great effort in supporting the local communities in various fund raising projects, thumbs up!!”
Who are the Busy Beavers?
Talented Arborists & Landscapers serving the Canterbury region, visit this page and meet the Busy Beavers.
I first met Bryce when he came to our property to inspect a leaning poplar tree; after having a close inspection, Bryce provided me with good advise on the problem tree, and had it removed safely and professionally! Before I found Bryce, I phoned various other tree companies, and I have to say that Beaver Tree provided me with the most efficient and friendly service!
Bryce asked me what I do for a living, I told him I am a graphic and web designer, and was keen to assist in any way. I never thought Bryce would call me back, but he did after a few months, saying he would like me to assist with his website upgrade work!
The Existing Beaver Tree Website
The first job was to analyse the Beavers existing website, first impression was that it was a very plain site with some simple static html pages. The internal pages had white backgrounds with large texts, each text box was as wide as the browser page making it difficult to read. I still keep a full backup of the very first Beaver website, an example of one internal page shown on the right –>
I love seeing websites that could be improved! We believe a website is an important marketing tool for a company, as it shows professionalism and caring for the business.
I like the Beaver logo, and think it is humorous, and a good name to use for a tree company, the blue, brown and yellow colourway is a good combination, and I thought I would carry this to the new website template design.
Website Development Notes
The existing static website was improved utilising silverstripe content management system, which has been an excellent web CMS for the past year, however due to the growing needs, we have decided to upgrade the site system to WordPress.
It was great moving from a simple static html site to a dynamic one, where editors can log-in to add or modify their own web pages, but moving to wordpress has taken this even further, as it opens up a whole world of possibilities! The ease of use and abundance of plug-ins has made wordpress the number 1 choice for a magazine/blog styled website.
It took 5 days to move from Silverstripe to WordPress, the work included planning, re-building, re-structuring and migrating the whole site contents to the new system. A new website template is also required to be designed to accommodate this upgrade. I wanted the design to be clean and easy to navigate, so I introduced the ‘timber look’ to reflect the range of services provided, and to carry the blue, brown and yellow to this theme. Regarding the site structure, the articles are sorted under ‘categories tabs’ sitting on the left hand column, below the ‘Categories’ Tab are ‘Most Recent Posts’ and ‘Our Preferred Supplier’s Links’.
The BeaverTree.co.nz website has transformed from just a plain static html website with no typography, to an informative dynamic one. Offering abundance of information on tree care, landscaping design, latest news, community involvements, promotions and photo/video galleries. Expect to see a lot more to come, if you have tree care or landscaping question, you are most welcome to ask Bryce by visiting this web page, so don’t be shy ask away!
BeaverTree.co.nz is on top of Google
Good content always helps Google rankings. Other good news is that Beaver is on top of Google on a lot of important keywords phrases, this is an important leap in terms of web presence of the company! Keep up the good work Beavers!
BeaverLandscaping.co.nz is active
We have secured a new domain name BeaverLandscaping.co.nz, this new url will redirect traffic to this web-site, give it a try http://beaverlandscaping.co.nz
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