Alexander McCall Smith

The new look Alexander McCall Smith website was one of the most complex websites we’ve built, but hopefully you won’t be able to tell that when you visit it!

Alexander has written prolifically throughout his life, and as such the site needed the structure to handle his wide variety of novels and series of novels. The look and feel of each section needed to reflect the quirky and unique nature of each series too, so there were both design, animation and structural challenges to be tackled.

Again WordPress was up to the job, and we’re delighted to bring Alexander’s new site to the world.

Website: www.alexandermccallsmith.co.uk

NHS Newcastle Healthy Minds

We’re proud to have designed and developed the Newcastle Healthy Minds website for the NHS.

The site uses a unique system that enables the public to securely refer themselves to the NHS for help with mental health issues. This makes it much easier for people to get help quickly, helps save time and money. Other general information about mental health is also provided in the form of audio, animation and reading materials.

This is the first time the North Of Tyne NHS has use WordPress to power a website, and so far it has been very well received.

Wesbite: www.newcastlehealthyminds.nhs.uk

Arts Research Digest

The Arts Research Digest houses a large electronic archive of journals and research papers. We have built the site entirely in WordPress requiring a high level of customisation, really testing the limits of the platform.

The site features a fully categorised archive with custom search capabilities, and on the fly PDF generation, user registration and management of paid subscribers, blogging functionality, searchable reviews section, news and events section featuring the Kino Events Calendar, and a Flash animation updatable through the WordPress dashboard.

Website: www.arts-research-digest.com

Tait 2 Productions

Wedding videographer Tony Tait wanted to get away from the traditional white and formal design so we designed a logo and colour scheme that really captured the spirit of his personal yet professional business. Subtle creams contrasted with bold, painterly splashes of blue.

Building upon this brand identity we designed a website to showcase Tony’s work. The flexible WordPress content management system allows the upload of sample wedding videos and features PayPal ecommerce for online payment.

Website www.tait2productions.com

easyJetPlus!

“We couldn’t have done it without your help, so thanks a million!”  Mark Barrett, Creative Director, Elmtree Creative

Mark Barrett of Elmtree Creative contracted Kino Creative to build the CSS and XHTML of the new easyJetPlus! website shortly before Christmas 2009.

Due to a tight deadline, and knowing that this site had to be bomb proof, we set about rapidly putting together the code for the site, and after a mammoth week and a half delivered the final code on the cusp of New Years Eve. The site was packed up and sent over 100% W3C compliant, and checked thoroughly against a range of browsers both new and old.

Website: http://easyjetplus.com/

Nano Central

Nano Central and Admiral PR asked us to redesign their website to take advantage of social media, and other web based technology such as RSS feeds.

Using WordPress as a CMS we rebuilt Nano’s site to reflect their brand, and coded numerous plugins specifically for Nano such as the Event Calendar, and a video streaming/live chat facility for conference broadcasting. The site is built to be fully W3C compliant.

Website www.nanocentral.eu

Iain Banks

As massive fans of Iain Banks we were delighted to get the chance to redesign his official website.

It was a complicated job requiring us to merge both Iain Bank’s fiction and non-fiction, as well as the US side of his writing into one website. We built the site in WordPress to allow it to be easily updated, and to take advantage of thebuilt in blogging technoglogy.

Website: www.iain-banks.net

Christopher Brookmyre

Chris Brookmyre’s cover designs all draw inspiration from the great Saul Bass, so we tried to inject a bit of his spirit into the author’s new website.

WordPress was used as the Content Management System.

Website: www.brookmyre.co.uk

Frank Coles

“On a tight deadline, Kino created a deliciously clean, stylish and above all functional website that merged four quite different sites into one elegant interface using wordpress as a backend content management system.

But what was especially satisfying was that during the rollout/launch of both book and website they responded professionally and promptly, and then acted on all queries and general snagging, without the usual designer-ego fuss or agency aloofness (aka: inaction). Quite simply: excellent.” Frank Coles

Website: www.frankcoles.com

Claude & Celeste

Claude & Celeste needed a professional look e-commerce, so we approached Kino with a basic brief. Very shortly they came back to us with some very good design, that we liked but we wanted to tweak it there was no problem with Kino they did respond very well to our demand and the final design exceeded our expectations.

“I found Kino and Seth to very flexible they listened our requirements. I will recommend them without a hesitation.” Alex Jimenez, Claude & Celeste

Kino designed the Claude & Celeste website to work cleanly and quickly in WordPress. We designed the site before handing over to Lightbulb who built in the eCommerce backend before making the site live.

Website: www.claude-celeste.com

Pelican People

Unusually we were not asked to work on the front end of the design for the updated Pelican People website as the site had recently been redesigned. Instead we were tasked with porting the entire site over to WordPress, and to develop a search widget so that users could locate training courses quickly.

The new site takes advantage of all of the usual WordPress functionality such as state of the art blog, social media integration, and easy to use CMS.

Website: www.pelicanpeople.co.uk

Prophecy of the Sisters

“I LOVE my UK site! :D” Michelle Zink, Author

Michelle Zink is a US author of horror-romance for young people. When the publisher Atom needed a website to promote her book Prophecy of the Sisters in the UK, they turned to us at Kino Creative. We delivered a dark and brooding gothic styled website that really suited the subject matter. The site is entirely content managed through WordPress, is totally accessible and comes first in Google search results.

Website: www.prophecyofthesisters.co.uk

Louise Candlish

“Thank you so much for my new website – you’ve made the whole process so easy that I’ve hardly known it was happening, and now we’re up and running I’m thrilled with how cleverly it all works. I know readers will find it much easier now to interact with me and discover more about my books.”
Louise Candlish, Author

The site for the author Louise Candlish needed to be bright, airy and feminine whilst not being “girly”. Taking the colour scheme and graphical elements from the cover of her latest novel,  we quickly finalised a visual design that they were happy with. The site is powered by WordPress for easy content management.

Website: www.louisecandlish.co.uk

Angus Donald

“Kino Creative built me a brilliant, simple-but-innovative website for Outlaw, with imaginative features including a delayed shooting arrow that have impressed me and my readers. It is easy to navigate, looks terrific and has all the essential ingredients for a site that will stand out from all the rest in cyber-space. A fine job, really well done.” Angus Donald, Author

The website is a customised WordPress build, and takes advantage of the platforms strong blogging functionality without looking anything much like a WordPress website!

Website: www.angus-donald.com

MJForster – Uberpainting

MJForsters’ brilliant new ‘Uberpaintings’ are now for sale on a website we built for him using WordPress.

The site is again a heavily modified WordPress platform, incorporating numerous custom plugins such as the Gallery Grid plugin which is available from our website.

Website: www.mjforster.com

Love Your Gut

Yakult asked for an update to their Love Your Gut microsite, and they needed a way to update their own content regularly.

The latest version of Love Your Gut features a heavily customised WordPress CMS, bespoke design and Flash animation, and a feature full blog. The result is a feature rich and easy to use website that ranks very well on search engines.

Website: www.loveyourgut.com