Floating on Air.... well on helium actually!

Floating on Air.... Well on helium actually!

The Balloon Gallery is a family-run business in Holbeach in Lincolnshire supplying high-quality balloon decorations for parties, weddings, corporate events and special occasions. They came to Chads Web Studio for one of our small business website packages in order to gain their first web presence.

The brief which the Balloon Gallery gave was very specific in terms of what they wanted their website to achieve, but the only design specification given was that the site should use the company colours which are deep pink and purple.

They particularly wanted the website to convey the quality of their products, designs and creations, rather than simply shout "Party Balloons!".

In order to achieve this, we combined the colours of magenta, purple and gold. Our website design centers around the idea of a special gift, so the navigation bar is a gold ribbon, wrapped around a graded purple background. All the images used on the site were given a gold border.

In order to show as many of the balloon designs as possible, we used fade-image shows on every page. We also provided a light-box gallery so that visitors may browse through photographs of the helium balloon creations and see many of them in situ at special events. This gives an impression of how balloon decorations may used to transform parties, weddings and corporate and other special events.

The website consists of 6 simple pages: the home page, a page outlining the types of occasions when balloon decorations might be used, examples of the styles of decorations which the Balloon Gallery can supply, (including exotically named "fantasy clouds", "sculptured hearts", "topiary trees" and "balloon bouquets") , a list of Frequently Asked questions and a contact page.

The Balloon-Gallery website is search engine-friendly, created using the latest web-standards and is accessible to all.

In common with every website created in Chads Web Studio, basic search-engine optimisation on www.balloon-gallery.co.uk was included in the small business website package price as standard.

To see more examples of small business websites created in the Chads Web Studio, please visit our portfolio.