We’ve created a smart and subtle new website for new film company Waiting Game Films. The client is building up the content and images of the site over time, but the site is already being publicised to attract investment in…
Santé Theatre website
This clean and clear new website for an innovative theatre company was compiled by us in double-quick time, with content and resources taken from the client’s previous site, and new higher-quality images provided by our client Isis Media…
CITIZENS: Excision – interactive series website and social media (allegedly)
In order to provide a suitable scapegoat for this regrettably unnerving project, we have been asked to claim responsibility for the website production of this interactive series. Allegations have also been made that our Director Ian Kennedy also wrote and…
BOLD Text Playwrights – WordPress training and website enhancements
Ian spent half a day with this client, smartening and sharpening their website, adding new features, and training the clients in how to manage it to its full capacity. Before the commission, the site was full of clunky features, like…
Jaanika Okk Arts Management website
This one-day website commission for an arts management professional has enabled us to train the client, build the website in full and hand over to her on the day. The site includes an attractive tabbed index pages, customised coding as…
Welcome to our new-look website!
We’ve given the website a thorough makeover – what do you think!
New look for our website for writer Raj K Lal
It’s been a pleasure to work again with one of our early clients to modernise her site when her needs for it changed. The original site had been made to the style and specifications she requested, but she was now…
Website rebranding and updates, plus Filming, for Rebecca Schwarz: Singer, Singing Teacher & Choir Leader
In 2011 FriendlyWebStarter adapted an existing website for performer and vocal coach Rebecca Schwarz, and we later filmed one of her concerts in High Definition… and in 2014 we gave the site a new look and transformed its navigation, creating…
New-look Producers’ Forum website and newsletters
As its Communications Officer, Ian relaunched the Producers’ Forum in late 2013, with a smarter new website (including video galleries) and a new newsletter platform…
The Producers’ Forum – filmmakers’ organisation Communications (2011-14)
From July 2011 to April 2014, Ian worked as the Communications and Member Services Coordinator for the Producers’ Forum, transforming its communications, website and member subscriptions. The Twitter, Facebook and newsletter following has gone from under 2,000 to over 3,500 cumulatively…
Jane Campion Hoye website – writer/actor/coach, Inspire2Speak
To complete a site that had already been initialised, Ian redesigned the header image, amended the website’s style and layout, and added smooth new animated slideshows as well as a testimonials widget and other effects, while training the client to…
Make Me Smile Balloons & Events website
This colourful new site makes the most of the client’s vivid images of their creations, with a large slider on the homepage that links to different sections of the site, plus an interactive map and Flash picture galleries. The site…
Ian speaks at WordPress Birmingham about building websites in a day
It was an honour to be asked to do a ten-minute presentation to WordPress professionals about how FriendlyWebStarter manage to build entire advanced websites, train clients and hand over to them in a day, and led to our biggest ever…
Birmingham Fest – new theatre festival website
FriendlyWebStarter has produced the vivid website for this new independent theatre festival…
2011 & 2012 Creative Web Design courses for University College Birmingham
In 2011 Scarlet and Ian led this course together, but with Scarlet unavailable Ian ran the 2012 course, designed to facilitate 10 students to create websites ‘of a saleable standard’ within just two days…
New IQK Website – Writing & Productions by Ian Kennedy
Moving across from our attractive but technically outmoded HTML site was a great opportunity to show off new features, functions and styles…
Isis Media website
In 2012 FriendlyWebStarter built a fresh new website for Isis Media, a leading producer of TV programmes and other videos…
Skydrones Aerial Photography website
A particularly proud moment for FriendlyWebStarter was producing this bespoke website in 2012 – our first one-day integrated web design and handover process…
Helen Cross: author’s website
In 2011-12 FriendlyWebStarter built a new website for the successful novelist and scriptwriter Helen Cross and trained her in how to run it, prefiguring the services we can now deliver in a single day…
University College Birmingham: Creative Web Design Course
In November 2011, FriendlyWebStarter’s Scarlet Scardanelli and Ian Kennedy delivered an entertaining, informative and inclusive two day course to students of University College Birmingham about Creative Web Design…