Helios Website Portfolio Home Contact us What we do Web Hosting Bespoke Design Budget Websites E-Commerce Site Content Managed Sites Search Engine Graphic Design Printing Services Promotional Getting Started Site Portfolio The Haggis The Haggis website represents a long established family business which now services a worldwide market and has a long-standing reputation for excellence. The site presents an overview of the business and its history, and also incorporates an online shop with a content management system. The business has diverse and very interesting promotional associations, and these are presented via dedicated site pages along with an image gallery. The enterprise and dynamism of the the business owner and his attention to detail make this website an excellent example of how to present products in an attractive and informative manner. It is worth noting how the site manages to promote the items for sale within an extended context.  Pride in the family history of the business and association with dynamic and interesting activities  contribute to an excellent showcase for the high quality products themselves.     Click on the image above to view the site. Millers Tale The Millers Tale website is an online shop with several innovative features. The site has been designed to allow the owner to change all aspects of the graphical appearance very easily, using an extremely comprehensive content management system. The diverse nature if the items for sale makes it necessary to incorporate a flexible way to apply carriage charges, where required, on a per-item basis. Whilst being essentially very simple to navigate, the site is extremely powerful and extensible, with up to five major shop departments and multiple sub- departments. Click on the image above to view the site. Gartnafuaran Farm Cottage This is a small "brochure" website which includes an image gallery and interactive area map. The Gartnafuaran Farm Holiday Cottage is situated in beautiful surroundings in historic Balquhidder. Pictures say more than words and so why not click through to the website to take a look at the Gartnafuaran Farm Holiday Cottage website picture gallery of local scenes. Click on the image above to view the site. Hans Kayser This website has a large collection of text articles, managed very efficiently using a frame based site design with a left hand expanding menu system. The multi-level expanding menu can be extended easily and incorporates a sophisticated graphical presentation with indented guides. The Hans Kayser site is also unusual in that it presents complex information of a technical nature, incorporating diagrams and equations. Click on the image above to view the site. Intaprint This website is interesting in that it has an unusual product pricing structure associated with the shopping cart. Most products have multiple variations and pricing is based on quantity packages. The shopping cart calculates pricing and carriage from tables which can be easily updated by the site owner. Click on the image above to view the site. The Atom and the Octave This website is dedicated to the work of Maryel Gardyne. Her book "The Atom and the Octave" is the culmination of many years of research, and draws together compelling evidence of the universal relevance of harmonic relationships and proportion in nature. Maryel Gardyne's book integrates the work of many philosophers and scientists, ranging from Kepler and Goethe, through Hans Kayser, to modern quantum theory. The Atom and the Octave website is simple in structure and presents unobtrusively a very important body of knowledge. Click on the image above to view the site. Items Management Optimisation Stoveco Woodburning Stoves The Stoveco Woodburning Stoves website is an attractive modern non- framed open-architecture site which is steadily being updated and enlarged. This website provides facilities for the use of long scrolling extensible pages and can have versatile navigation on a page-by-page basis. The website is fully managed with a phased development plan to meet the needs of an expanding business. Powerful CMS facilities allow the site owner to add complete web pages if required.  These pages are fully automatically generated without the need to use HTML code. Click on the image above to view the site. Click on the image above to view the site. St Andrews Health Foods This is a very simple single page website which has the capabilitry of being extended later into a more informative multi-page site or even a small online shop. The website is designed to give a good visual impression of the business and to give an attractive and immediate indication of the very wide range of products available. This kind of site is an ideal starting point for small businesses moving onto the internet for the first time. A site of this nature can be quickly set up (less than a week) and can be freely extended at any time. Click on the image above to view the site. The Saltire Stables website is designed to be a very comprehensive online catalogue for a wide and growing range of products. The website has facilities for displaying detailed technical information along with a product image gallery and slideshow with unlimited capacity and categorised display. The site has full CMS facilities for online editing of all page content by the site owner. In addition to the self-update procedure Helios provides a site-content editing, research, and upload service.  This ensures that management of the website content is adequately implemented under all circumstances.   Saltire Stables Click on the image above to view the site. This is, at present, a simple and concise single-page website created to present the books of musicologist and author Mitzi DeWhit. The site has been designed to function effectively as a single page initially, but it is ready to be expanded with more detailed content and extra pages later. Mitzi’s books are made available for sale via links to Amazon, thus allowing the site to function as a source of sales without needing e-commerce facilities.   Mitzi DeWhitt Click on the image above to view the site. Stoveco This is a commercial “hub” website which is designed to act as a central presentation of all aspects of the business concerned. This central site contains general information, and then transfers the visitor to separate specialised websites designed to cover individual aspects of the business in more detail. This multi-site approach to providing a good web presence for businesses with diverse commercial aspects works well for both site visitors and for search engine optimisation. See ale the Stoveco Woodburning Stoves and Stoveco Online Store  sites above. Click on the image above to view the site. The Alchemical Research website is a very small site designed to represent online, in terms of graphical layout and style, a specific printed document . The site is thus created using a fixed graphical format to ensure universal visual presentation in all browsers. As a  “dual language” website, the Alchemical Research site has each page available in both a French and an English version.  The site also has a “dual” domain name with English and French versions. Alchemical Research Click on the image above to view the site. Jane Weaver Jane Weaver’s website is a personal artisitic statement, and a presentation of Jane’s fabulous collection of quilts. The site was designed to embody quite strict aesthetic considerations and Jane had a very good idea of what she wanted from the final site design. A particular requirement was the  ability for the site to present large images of Jane’s quilts with an optional scrolling view to see details interactively. The site has a full CMS facility so that Jane can update and add material herself. Click on the image above to view the site. Caroline Trotter This small website is designed to showcase the work of photographer Caroline Trotter. The site has its main content pages managed by Helios, but the photograph gallery is managed by Caroline herself using a CMS system. This site does not use a secure enquiry form, our preferred method, but on request from the site owner implements a simple “mailto” facility to encourage email responses. This is a good example of the way a Helios bespoke site design can be set up however you choose, allowing your own preferred presentation.   The Purvis Family Tree This is a large genealogy website written partly by Helios and modified from "The Next Generation" genealogy package. This site is the only instance of Helios using software not programmed exclusively "in house". Taking advantage of the complex existing functionality of "The Next Generation" allowed us to avoid the time-consuming labour of writing new code in a very specialised area. Click on the image above to view the site. Click on the image above to view the site. R.I.L.K.O. The R.I.L.K.O. website is a fully user- editable site with content management system and easy extensibility. The site features include a very easy to maintain but powerful image gallery, secure response forms, and a very simple navigation structure.  The intention is to expand the site over time, and Helios will provide ongoing backup and editorial support to the site owners. One welcome and interesting feature of this site is that many of the images are individual artistic illustrations provided by members of R.I.L.K.O.. The dramatic header image was very kindly provided by photographer Chris Spracklen.  Thanks Chris!  Chris Spracklen has many other excellent photographs on his website which are available for use under license.  A link to Chris’s site can be seen on the R.I.L.K.O. page.   Click on the image above to view the site. Tigh na Crich The Tigh na Crich website is one of a set of small and economical sites built on a pre-designed framework coded by Helios. These “standardised” designs include four or six pages of information, a scrolling “Google” map, and a secure contact form. See also the Lochearnhead Post Office  on our second portfolio page and the Gartnafuaran Farm Cottage and The Atom and the Octave sites above on this page. These sites have proved to be very successful and have attracted many positive comments.  They provide an ideal low-budget solution where graphical presentation is important and site content is not too extensive. Click on the image above to view the site. Combined Technologies Simplicity and ease of maintenance is the essential characteristic of this type of website. The navigation is very easy, entirely controlled from the top of the page. Each page can be as long as required and extends full width, allowing for maximum flexibility of page design. This type of design is ideally suited to small websites which will never require complex navigation or large numbers of pages. This is a simple but very effective and economical solution for small websites. Click on the image above to view the site. Stoveco Online Store The Stoveco Online Store is closely associated with its sister sites Stoveco Woodburning Stoves (see above) and Stoveco (see below). The Stoveco Woodburning Stoves and the Stoveco websites are both purely informational, while the online store seen here is concerned with e- commerce and sales promotion. All three sites are controlled entirely from a single unified administative facility, even though they reside on different domains. The online store currently has three sales departments, but has been constructed in such a manner that, if required, these sections can later be “split off” into separate websites. The powerful CMS facilities allow the site owner to revise products and manage stock.  The site also has a powerful “one-click-mailshot” facility to allow selective email shots to be sent to existing or prospective customers. Steetley Minerals The Steetley Minerals website is a good demonstration of the compact presentation of a large range of items. Concentrating on visual presentation of individual items, the site uses an image gallery with thumbnails which is fully integrated into an online shop. An advanced CMS allows the site owner to manage the whole item database as well as the informational pages. Complex product categorisation, a flexible currency selection feature, and extended search functions make this site a good example of the power and configurability of the Helios online shop. Click on the image above to view the site.