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SEO Services: Sound, Audio & Lighting - Prosound

Drawing from a wealth of experience, Prosound has successfully completed a wide range of projects in the fields of audio, sound and lighting. Prosound has a wide range of PA Systems, audio & sound and lighting eqipment to ensure the perfect solution for your event.

JWS did not design the website but we are providing SEO services to Prosound.

Mochachos Franchise Management

The Mochachos Chicken Villages concept is based on "Mexican Flavoured Flame Grilled Chicken" combined with a specialised Mexican Foods menu. The motivating factor for this choice was the demand for consumers for "exotic" yet healthy dining. The design and decor of the outlets takes advantage of the rich colours of Mexico which are blended into a "village style" eatery. Care has been taken to ensure that the cooking process is as healthy as possible by using dry herbs and spices as opposed to an oil based marinade for the flavouring.

The new Mochachos website is a content rich site with flash animation, video and audio. The new site has a content management system to ensure that the content is kept up to date.

Features:
  • Flash video on the welcome page
  • Displays TV Ads
  • Listen to Radio Ads online
  • Latest News
  • Q & A Section
  • Photo Gallery
  • Franchise Search Feature - find the closest store
  • Content Management System - Mochachos Franchise Management can edit the content of pages and add new news items
  • Password protected section of the website for franchisees

Meerkat Motivational Speaker

Estienne de Beer is a South African motivational speaker. He required a new website to promote his one hour presentation 'Meerkat Motivation for the Marketplace'.

Johnston Web Solutions designed a graphically rich website built around the theme of 'Meerkats'.

Features:
  • Graphically instense website
  • Blog section for latest news
  • Content Management System - to update and manage the content on the website

Waterstone College

Located on the banks of the Klip River in Kibler Park, Johannesburg South, Waterstone College offers an excellent all-round education in a beautiful and serene environment.

Waterstone College's website plays an important marketing role for the school and communication role between parents, staff and learners. Johnston Web Solutions was contracted to redesign the existing website so as to be an effective marketing tool for the College and to add additional features to enhance communication.

Features:
  • Content Management System allows the College to keep the website up to date with the latest news, events and results.
  • Calendar for upcoming events
  • Animated banner
  • News & Results page
  • Individual news page for each sport or activity
  • Photo Gallery
  • Contact Form

The Rose Shack

The Rose Shack is an online shop based in the United Kingdom. The shop sells a beautiful range of gifts and accessories which have a rose theme.

In close consultation with the client, Johnston Web Solutions designed the logo and look and feel of the website to convey a classical rose theme. The website includes an online shopping cart, credit card processing and online ordering.

Features:
  • Ecommerce shopping cart
  • Credit card integration with PayPal
  • CMS system to allow the client to easily add and remove products
  • Each product has more than one photo
  • Helpful hints and interesting info news page

Cornerstone Performance Solutions

Cornerstone Performance Solutions is a team of professionally qualified human performance specialists with extensive experience across the spectrum of human performance issues.

The products and services offered by Cornerstone are promoted over a number of different websites:

Cornerstone wanted to be able to update the content on all the various product sites from one location. Johnston Web Solutions implemented a content management system with all the websites running off one database with a central administration section. This provides an efficient method for Cornerstone to keep the content on various sites up to date and allows Cornerstone to allocate the same content to more than one website. For example Cornerstone can add new training courses to the Calendar or add a new brochure to one of the product sites.

The flash animation for the website was provided by Cornerstone.

Features:
  • Media Centre with news and articles
  • Product Brochures
  • Calendar showing upcoming courses
  • Booking form for Calendards
  • Search feature
  • Price Calculator for courses
  • Content Management System - Cornerstone can edit the content of pages and add new news items
  • Multi site websites running off the same database

EnviroFill

EnviroFill (Pty) Ltd. is a specialist landfill and waste facility management company operating at over 30 locations across southern Africa. EnviroFill is part of Interwaste Holdings Limited (a listed company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange).

EnviroFill required their website to be updated. EcranStudio designed the look and feel for the new website. Johnston Web Solutions then converted the look and feel provided by EcranStudio into a website and added the required functionality

Features:
  • EnviroFill is the first of 7 new websites for the Interwaste Holidings Limited group. Each website is linked allowing nformation to be posted across all the sites. Visitors who search on one site receive search results from across the group helping to promote the various products and services offered by the group.
  • CMS system to allow the client to easily update content on the website

Kolobe Game Farm

Kolobe Game Farm is situated close to Johannesburg and Pretoria, offers a wide variety of game and is suitable for the whole family.

Features:
  • Welcome page
  • Multilingual - website makes provision for English and Afrikaans
  • Online booking feature - visitors to the website can easily see which days are free and can make a booking request
  • Content Management System - Kolobe Game Farm can update the accommodation & hunting tariffs. Various information pages can be edited by Kolobe

Kameel Game Farm

After completing the Kolobe website, the owners of Kolobe requested that JWS implement the same functionality for their second website - Kameel Game Farm. The look and feel of www.kameel.co.za was provided by the client. Johnston Web Solutions added support for English and Afrikaans pages and added a content management system.

Stellenberg Community Church

Stellenberg Community Church required a website for the following reasons:

  • Establish a web presence
  • Share important information on the various ministries in the church
  • Provide sermons and resources for the community
  • Assist members to register for courses offered by the church

Johnston Web Solutions designed a professional site to meet the needs of the client. The 'look and feel' of the site is warm and inviting to ensure that visitors to the site feel welcomed.

Features:
  • Watch / Listen Page - visitors to the website can listen to sermons online or download the sermons in MP3 format to their computer. PDF documents as well as Powerpoint presentations can also be attached to sermons.
  • Current Series - a description and picture for the current series can be added to the site. Sermons are categorised according to current series.
  • Calendar showing upcoming events
  • Registration forms for courses
  • Flash Gallery to display photos
  • Content Management System - Stellenberg can edit the content of pages and add new sermons and events

Meerkat Motivational Speaker

Estienne de Beer is a South African motivational speaker who has inspired people in 7 countries. He is expanding into the United Kingdom and requires a UK based website to effectively promote his presentation 'Meerkat Motivation for the Marketplace'.

Johnston Web Solutions designed a graphically rich website built around the theme of 'Meerkats'. The website is hosted in the UK to ensure quick accesss for UK customers.

Features:
  • Graphically instense website
  • Blog section for latest news
  • Article section
  • Search feature to help visitors search through the 800 plus articles on the website
  • Integration with Estienne's South African website - any articles added to the South African website are automatically syncrhonised with the UK website
  • Content Management System - to update and manage the content on the website

Seashelles

Spectacular ocean views from the terrace of every suite, impressive architecture, refined luxury and good taste, these are the hallmarks of the Seashelles apartments in Umhlanga, Kwazulu-Natal South-Africa.

Johnston Web Solutions designed a new website to promote the Seashelles apartments. The ocean view from Seashelles are a strong feature of the accommodation and are included prominently in the design. A calendar and booking facility form part of the website.

Features:
  • Online calendar/booking feature
  • Large flash animation highlighting the facilities and views
  • Content Management System
  • Skype Phone Call Integration
  • Photo Gallery

Casa Velha Guest House

Casa Velha is a luxury Boutique Guest House located in the historic & quite suburb of Benoni. The guest house caters for both local and international travelers.

Casa Velha required a website to promote the great facilities and accommodation available.

Features:
  • Flash Photo gallery to showcase facilities
  • Booking enquiry page - visitors to the website can submit their booking request from the website
  • Content Management System - Casa Velha use the CMS system to add new photos and update text
  • Setting up of page titles, descriptions and keywords so that Search Engines will correctly classify the website

MJ Manufacturing

MJ Manufacturing has a combined knowledge of over 30 years in the office furniture industry and offers a wide variety of office furniture, chairs, desks and tables.

The product range of MJ Manufacturing is continually changing and an online catalogue was required that could be maintained in house. Johnston Web Solutions designed a new website that included an administrators section which MJ Manufacturing uses to keep their product catalogue up to date.

With the launch of the new website, Johnston Web Solutions implemented a Google Adwords advertising campaign which is brining a steady flow of product enquiries from the website.

Features:
  • Online brochure/catalogue
  • Admin section to add, edit and delete products from the catalogue
  • Product enquiry feature
  • Content Management System
  • Google Adwords Implemented

Auckland Park Florist

Auckland Park is a florist situated in the trendy suburb of Mellville, and delivers fresh, beautiful flowers across the greater Johannesburg area.

Johnston Web Solutions designed an attractive an elegant website to promote the flowers sold by Auckland Park Florist.

Features:
  • Attractive 'floral' theme
  • Helpful hints feature
  • Listing of products with photos
  • Content Management System to allow Auckland Park Florist to quickly update information on the website
  • Contact Us Page

Du Plessis Sand

Du Plessis Sand suppliers a professional transport service to all sectors, including industrial, manufacturing and mining entities. Operations first began in 1979 with a single truck. From there the company has grown to include a large fleet of tippers, flat beds and other vehicles ideally suited to handle a wide variety of transport requirements. Du Plessis Sand operates throughout South Africa and in some neighbouring countries.

Du Plessis Sand required a website to promote their services and expertise in the transport industry. Johnston Web Solutions created a new website which is eye catching and conveys the professionalism of Du Plessis Sand.

Features:
  • Flash animation of services offered
  • Photo gallery
  • Content Management System to allow Du Plessis Sand to quickly update information on the website
  • Contact Us Page

Bru-Force (Fan Africa)

Bru-Force (Fan Africa Prop Africa) offers a wide range of services from the reconditioning of heavy duty earth moving fan's to the supply of MICSA lubricants.

Bru-Force required a website to:

  • promote their products and services
  • show 'before' and 'after' photos of reconditioned fans
  • provide contact details for customers

Johnston Web Solutions worked closely with Bru-Force to create a new website that meets the above requirements.

Features:
  • Flash animation banner
  • Photo galleries for reconditioned fans, new fans, prop shafts and dust wheels
  • Content Management System to allow Bru-Force to add new photos and information
  • Contact Us Page

Abacus Financial Services

The Abacus housing loan solution assists employees who are members of a retirement fund to access housing finance.

Abacus approached Johnston Web Solutions to design a professional website to promote the services offered by Abacus. Particular care was taken to insure that the look and feel of the website matches the corporate identity of Abacus.

Vaal Transport Forum

The Vaal Transport Forum represents an association of various transport contractors in the Vaal Triangle area as well as Gauteng. The Forum conducts monthly meetings where a wide spectrum of transport related issues are discussed.

The Forum required a website to assist members in networking with each other.

Features:
  • Content Management System - VTF can update the content on the website directly
  • Members can advertise equipment they have for sale or require
  • Password protected 'members only' section contains useful content (such as contact lists) for members
  • Contact Us Page
  • Flash animation
  • Search feature - members can quickly find the information they require
  • Automatic notification system - members are notified via email of any new content that is added to the website
  • Internal message system - members can send messages to each other

Bezaleel

Bezaleel is a family home in the Springs Community, providing permanent care for children affected by and infected with HIV/AIDS, within the context of a family.

An important requirement of the new website was for Bezaleel to be able to make changes to the content of the website. Johnston Web Solutions designed a site that can be easily updated by Bezaleel.

Features:
  • Bezaleel can add news items, update the information about the children and make changes to the various pages as required
  • Photo gallery

VTS

Virtual Training Systems was formed to provide gym members with visual images of different exercises that can be performed in a gym. With the use of 12", 15" or 17" LCD Touch Screen Kiosks, VTS offers all gym members the facility to have access to a variety of gym exercises, ranging from resistance training and stability exercises to flexibility training.

Features:
  • Videos - The VTS website contains sample video clips of various exercises. This allows customers to view the kiosk in action.
  • Contact us page - visitors to the website can send a message to VTS

Stutter.co.za

Stutter.co.za is a personal blog that contains stories, videos and techniques for people who stutter. The website is a Drupal 6 website and makes extensive use of Views.

Features:
  • Videos
  • Audio
  • Blog feature

Jabez Telecoms

Jabez Telecoms provides a wide range of services from Satellite Dish Installations, Intercom Systems to PABX systems.

Features:
  • CMS System - A content management system has been implemented which allows for changes to be made to the website quickly and easily.
  • Contact us page - visitors to the website can send a message to Jabez Telecoms
  • Book system - the information on satellite solutions has been conveniently divided up into various 'book pages'. The book pages are easy to navigate and new pages can be added as required.
homepage of estienne de beer motivational speaker

Motivational Speakers

Estienne de Beer is a Motivational Speaker and Leadership Coach with in-depth experience across companies and cultures. He is the author of “Boosting Your Career – Tips From Top Executives” and the forthcoming book "How to Survive Your Big Bad Boss". He has consulted to a number of well-known organizations, focusing strongly on leadership development, motivation and presentation skills and has published articles in various national and international magazines.

Johnston Web Solutions' expertise was needed to add and upgrade a number of key features on www.motivational-speakers.co.za:
  • Content Management System (CMS) - Estienne de Beer is now able to directly edit information on the website quickly and easily. Having a CMS system provides many benefits to Motivational Speakers. For example new e-books can be added immediately and the welcome text on the homepage updated to reflect the latest news.
  • E-commerce functionality - Motivational Speakers sells a number of e-books plus a hard cover book 'Boosting your career'. Johnston Web Solutions implemented a secure online ordering system. Using the Content Management System, Estienne can add, edit and delete books.
  • Free Self-Help Library - Motivational Speakers has a large collection of articles written by various international leaders. The articles are arranged according to category and have a handy print option.
  • Auto Responder Emails - visitors to www.motivational-speakers.co.za request information that is then automatically emailed to the visitor. This allows Motivational Speakers to track their customers interest in various resources.
  • Integration with Google Analytics - the website for Motivational Speakers plays a key role in attracting new clients. It is therefore imperative for Motivational Speakers to be able to access comprehensive site statistics (eg number of visitors, most popular pages on the website etc). Using one of the most powerful tools for this task - Google Analytics, Johnston Web Solutions is able to provide statistics and implement strategies to increase website traffic.

Rowyn Projects

Rowyn Projects specialises in domestic, commercial and industrial construction in and around Johannesburg.

Features:
  • Video advert - Rowyn Project's advert is embedded on the homepage. The advert is a powerful marketing tool and can now be viewed by visitors to www.rowynprojects.com. The size of the advert has been customised so as to achieve the best viewing experience for site visitors.
  • Contact us page - visitors to the website can send a message to Rowyn Projects

ClassNavigator.com

ClassNavigator is the South African website that assists learners and parents to keep up to date with class and school information.

Educators use ClassNavigator to easily share academic information with learners and their parents.

Features:
  • Educators post homework, notes and announcements on their own web page
  • Learners and parents have access to a private mark book
  • Calendar
  • Internal Messaging
  • Discussion forums
  • Online storage of files  

Adopt-a-block

Adopt-a-block is a community upliftment project run by New Creation Family Church in Windsor East, South Africa.  New Creation Family Church uses www.adoptablock.co.za to post the latest news, pictures and events. 

Features:
  • photo gallery
  • calendar
  • articles
  • newsletters
  • comments

Lulus Appaloosa Stud

Situated along the banks of the Great Berg River in the Swartland is where you will find the lovely Lulus Appaloosa Stud. It is here that some of the finest appaloosa horses in Africa are bred.

Johnston Web Solutions quickly designed a three page website to meet the clients needs

Features:
  • photo gallery
  • contact us page
  • content management system - the client can edit text and upload new images independent of Johnston Web Solutions

Consulting & Contract Work

Johnston Web Solutions has consulted on a number of local and international websites. The client my require certain expertise for example or has the 'look and feel' of the website designed and requires JWS to merge the 'look and feel' with the website functionality. The client may also require us to develop a specific feature.

Consumer Insight Agency

The Consumer Insight Agency is a market research company. They required a website that could play video clips of various consumer interviews. Johnston Web Solutions was approached to develop a custom video module that is used on their various websites. The graphics (look and feel) was provided by the Consumer Insight Agency.

Features:
  • Password protected
  • Upload videos according to various categories
  • Browsers to the site watch videos online, or download them to their computer

The Great Can Am Open

WebEddy.com contracted Johnston Web Solutions to assist with the development of the Can Am Open website. JWS was involved in the database programming with WebEddy supplying the graphics.

Features:
  • Photo gallery
  • Play videos online
  • Purchase tickets from the site
  • View results online
  • Read the latest news

Alternative Cancer

Johnston Web Solutions was contracted by WebEddy.com to implement a Drupal website for Alternative Cancer. The client provided the graphics for the site.

Features:
  • Alternative cancer treatments are categorised according to various cancer types
  • Visitors to the site can purchase a subscription to the newsletter
  • Book and patient reviews can be added
  • Visitors to the site can post comments

Websites Developed in Partnership with Seltech

Seltech provides a wide range of Information Technology and Communications Services. Seltech contracts Johnston Web Solutions to assist with various web development tasks.

Seltech

Seltech required a company website with a professional look and feel.

Features:
  • Content Management System - Seltech management can make changes to the website as required.
  • Meta data setup - each page on the website has carefully chosen keywords, title and description to ensure proper search engine classification

Lampoon

Lampoon offers asset management, management consulting and IT solutions.

Features:
  • News feature - latest news can be added by Lampoon management
  • Content management system

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