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Web optimization/clean-up: Houghs of Lincolnshire

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Houghs of Lincolnshire

Original site screenshot

Houghs of Lincolnshire is another growing business that offers special holiday trips across the UK all year round.

Due to the intensive advertising efforts of the business, I volunteered out of sympathy to make an immediate clean-up to ensure its future success. What has been achieved within a week was an improved booking form, tidied layout! Currently awaiting permission to install the upgrade, it’s waiting here on standby.

Please note: the graphics are not of my design; I purely tidied it all up. It’s generally optimized from hogging 150mb to 22mb and its contents have been structured for easier maintenance in future.

Flash beat-em-up game announced!

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Lately I’ve been bug-hunting across the site fixing various broken links, and minor scripting errors. Even more content has been introduced, such as the Facebook fan page for social networking and a Flash showcase section added too!

For Proweb as a marketing campaign; they asked me to produce a cool Flash game to encourage more visitors to their company site. So the premise will be nice, simple, funny and addictive. Yep, go old-skool by creating a retro stylised beat-em-up! It’s a nostalgic theme that still appeals heavily upon the mass audience who browse the Internet. There were hugely successful brands that are still fresh in most peoples’ memories like Street Fighter, Streets of Rage and Mortal Combat. (more…)