The Beauty of Natural Stone

Atelier 109 is a small collective of highly qualified stonemasons which creates and builds medium size projects in natural stone. Their projects range from beautifully hand crafted fireplaces to stone staircases in French Limestone and Portland stone to renovation projects and new builds where their traditional stonemason's skills are used to create superb, long-lasting stone window mullions, doorways, chimneys and walls and floors in a variety of stone.

The client had a clear idea of the style he wanted for his website design, preferring a pale limestone grey pallet and a clean, uncluttered appearance. He had a requirement for a large number of photographs to be displayed, linked to separate pages of the website. At Chads Web Design Studio, we therefore made use of the Lightbox style gallery which allows links to multiple images, either from thumbnails or from text links, and the images pop up to display over the underlying page. This meant that from 4 visible thumbnails on the traditional stonework page, we are able to display 4 separate galleries totaling 60 photos.

Displaying images in this way also means that each page of the site can be compact and contained within a screen resolution of 1024 x768 and nothing is lost "below the fold".

Special attention was given to search engine optimisation for this website for stonemasons. After just two weeks the whole site has been indexed by Google and Atelier109.co.uk is coming up number one for the search string "Ketton Stone Fireplaces", "Ketton Stone staircases" and number 3 for "stone fireplace maker" and "stone staircase maker".

To learn more about search engine optimisation or to see other examples of our work, please visit Chads Web Studio.

A Vision of Elvis

Elvis Tribute artist, Rob Kingsley, better known as "a Vision of Elvis", was looking for a clean, simple website with photo gallery, media player and embedded video. The purpose of the site is to showcase his talents to promoters, theaters and larger venues who might be interested in booking his tribute to Elvis Presley show.

At Chads Web Design Studio we created a 7 page website where photos of Rob Kingsley were allowed to speak for themselves, showing what an incredible Elvis look-a-like Rob is.

In order to give a taster of Rob Kingsley's stage performance, we included an embedded YouTube video of one of a Vision of Elvis's shows and a media player with clips of a number of his live songs.

The photo gallery also helps to create the flavour of a Rob Kingsley stage performances with many shots taken during live shows with his band. The fabulous range of Elvis costumes used by Rob in his shows can also be seen here, many of which are imported direct from America.

The site also includes a brief history of the Elvis Aaron Presley story from his birth in 1935, through his rise to fame, his 33 successful film appearances and his 150 album awards to his death in 1977. The information shows Rob Kingsley's commitment to Presley and his knowledge of Elvis's background, all of which inform his performance and make him a realistic Elvis impersonator. In order to ensure that Rob Kingsley remains the focus of the website even on this page, the information is contained within a scrolling section and the page is dominated by an ever present close-up of Rob in full costume.

Chads Web Studio also designed a promotional poster suitable to be sent out to theatres and venues in sizes ranging from A5 to A0 size. The poster design helped to brand the website so that venue owners would recognise this particular Elvis impersonator from his promotional material.

To view more websites designed for musicians and tribute artists, please visit Chads Web Studio.