Just before we head into the Christmas break and wrap-up for another year we launch one last Craft CMS site in 2024, exactly on schedule and on budget.

This project was another collaborative effort between Enovate and the client's incumbent design agency, IYA Studio, with us taking responsibility for delivering the Craft CMS website and web hosting and IYA delivering the creative work in terms of the site's design.

The Urban Environment & Social Inclusion Index (UESI) is a project operated by the Data-Driven EnviroLab and funded by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

The project we undertook was the design and development of a new Craft CMS/Laravel web app, to replace the previous Wordpress site, that provided a better experience for users and site editors and made better use of their statistical data by presenting it in a range of interactive visualisations for each City they had data for.

The Climate Policy Monitor is a research initiative based at the University of Oxford. Launched in October 2023 with a strategic funding grant from the Oxford Martin School, the Hub is a collaboration between the Blavatnik School of Government and the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, and part of the Oxford Net Zero strategic cluster.

The project we were commissioned to deliver consisted of two main elements: the design of a suite of branding materials and the design and development of a Craft CMS/Laravel web app.

The project started with the branding work, specifically the typography and colour palette, before moving onto logo design and finally branded templates for software such as PowerPoint and Word.

Following the success of the Centre Tank Services project we were commissioned by sister-brand, Castle Pumps, to redesign and redevelop their ageing ExpressionEngine site in Craft CMS.

The key page templates in the site were redesigned to better align with the Castle Pumps branding and modern web design techniques to improve the overall user experience and responsiveness of the site.

The most challenging aspects of the project were the content migration from the old site to the new and building out the various relationships between content types and categories but any obstacles that came our way were surmounted.

We're delighted to see the new Universal Works Shopify site go live, it's been a long-running project and not without its challenges so it's deeply satisfying to have reached launch day with an end result we couldn't be happier with.

Designed by Universal Works' longstanding design partner, IYA Studio, we were tasked with taking responsibility for the Shopify development and there was lot of development to be done which mainly involved building a completely custom theme and a number of complex app integrations.

Today sees the completion and launch of our latest Shopify e-commerce project, in the form of a brand new online store for Essex based skincare brand and retailer Vital Assist Skincare.

The store was built in record time, taking just a few weeks to get up and running, and we're excited to start seeing the orders rolling in as the client starts to promote the new site amongst their clients, clinics and socials.

As a business we're proud to have been operating from various locations in Chelmsford since our inception all the way back in 2000 - it's where Michael and I grew up, went to school and University so we have deep connections to and a fondness of the area.

With that in mind, corporate social responsibility is something we care about and we're always on the look-out for opportunities to give something back to a community that has been kind to us over the years.

My interest in web development and coding started when I was in my first year of university at Anglia Ruskin studying a Computer Science degree with a one-year work placement.

I was delighted when my application to work at Enovate during my university work placement was approved and I loved my time at Enovate so much that once I'd graduated I knew exactly where I wanted to begin my career in full-time employment.

I find the whole process of web app development fascinating and I enjoy being a part of the project lifecycle, from creating wireframes all the way through to building and launching the finished application and seeing it being used successfully by our clients and their customers.

Being exposed to a variety of coding tools and frameworks continues to fuel my interest in programming and allows me to pursue my passion for web development.

We really enjoyed working on the new Airport House website and are delighted to have successfully launch the new Craft CMS site today.

As projects go it was fairly unusual in that the Airport House building is about as steeped in history as a building can be having been a fully functioning airport, the birthplace of air traffic control and involved in both World Wars! It made for a fascinating project and we all certainly learnt something about its history.

Today sees the launch of the new Shopify site we designed and developed for Restock Direct. The site represents the client's first foray into the world of e-commerce as well as an introduction to Shopify so there was quite a lot of time spent not only on the production of the site but answering questions related to Shopify and how it works as a platform, which we were more than happy to take the time to do.

As well as a fully bespoke theme, which we designed and built, the site makes use of a number of apps to integrate additional functionality such as wishlists and back in stock notifications. Some of which had to be customised to provide the exact functionality the client required.

It's not often we get to work with a national governing body so it was a great privilege to be commissioned by the IoTG to design and develop their new website.

The scope of the project was fairly straightforward, as website projects go, the most challenging aspects being the development of the register of guides area - allowing users to search for and filter all registered guides - and an integration with their CRM, VeryConnect.

In attendance were members of the Pandemic PACT team from the University of Oxford, representatives of the various project stakeholders and funders - primarily Glopid-R, UKCDR and Pandemic Sciences Institute - plus a large number of online attendees involved or with interest in the project.

We're delighted to have launched the brand new website for the Pandemic PACT project and even got to enjoy a wonderful launch event at the team's offices at The Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford.

The website - built on Craft CMS 5 and Laravel - was incredibly satisfying to work on due to the scope of the project brief and the number of moving parts but we couldn't be happier with the end result.

Today we're excited to announce the successful launch of our latest e-commerce project for skincare retailer, Beauty Product Online.

The UK offices of the popular brand are based in Danbury, Essex and we've been working with the team there since 2018 on a variety of online and branding projects.

The new Beauty Product Online website is built on Craft CMS, for the general site content pages, and Craft Commerce, for the e-commerce aspects so handling everything from products and orders to shipping rates and taxes.

The new website replaces the previous version, that was built on WordPress, and had become difficult to operate on a day-to-day basis as well as being insecure and vulnerable to attacks.

We're really pleased with the new site and how it's performing for Beauty Product Online and their customers and we're already actively working with the marketing team at Beauty Product Online to roll out new features and improvements.

If you're considering an e-commerce website project, take a look at the new Beauty Product Online website and then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you.

The Climate Analytics project has been thoroughly enjoyable to work on and no doubt a very worthwhile and pertinent endeavour given the world's pressing need to deal with the causes and effects of climate change, something we feel is incredibly important and therefore has made us feel incredibly proud to be involved with the delivery of this new website.

The new site, built on Craft CMS, was designed from scratch and incorporates a wide range of template styles and custom content blocks to give the editing team at Climate Analytics the tools they need when publishing content, from reports and press releases to publications and opinion pieces.

As part of the project we also tackled a variety of branding tasks to define a new corporate colour palette, typography styles and adjustments to the logo to modernise and bring it into line with the new branding.

The finished site was launched successfully and we're already discussing new additions and features to be added to the site to improve it even further.

Feel free to take a look around the site we built for Climate Analytics and if you're considering a similar Craft CMS website design and development project then please get in touch via our contact page, we'd love to hear from you.

We've been working with the team at Data HQ since 2019, hosting, supporting and maintaining their previous Craft CMS website which we onboarded from another agency when they ceased trading.

In that time we've built up a really strong relationship with David and the team so it was gratifying to be invited to take the reins and lead the development of their new website alongside their incumbent design agency, Fresh Pies.

This project was completed in a collaboration with IYA Studio, KSA's design partner, who were responsible for providing the site design and we acted as the development partner, tasked with developing the site in Craft CMS and providing website hosting as well as ongoing support and maintenance.

The scope of the project was small but perfectly formed, with the new site replacing an ageing Wix site with a slick new look-and-feel and a brand new user-focussed content management system provided by our CMS of choice, Craft CMS.

The finished site was launched successfully and we're already discussing new additions and features to be added to the site to improve it even further.

Feel free to take a look around the site we built for KSA Property and if you're considering a similar Craft CMS website project then please get in touch via our contact page, we'd love to hear from you.

After ten years working in the mechanical engineering industry including mechanical fitting, mechanical design, five axis CNC programming and project coordination I decided it was time for a career change.

A friend introduced me to web development and this sparked my interest in the field because there are a lot of transferable skills between engineering and digital technologies. Having an engineering mindset as well as experience working with programming languages for CNC machining made the transition very rewarding and enjoyable.

I studied a full-stack development course on CodeCademy for an average of 3 hours per day and after a year of studying I reached out to Enovate to discuss the option of work experience which I took part in for six weeks before being offered a full time position.

I now have one year of industry experience and have been involved in a variety of projects which utilise different programming techniques and languages.

After completing a two-year business course at Colchester Institute, I carried out an apprenticeship at a digital marketing agency learning all about the fundamentals of SEO and marketing strategies. After two years, I decided to transition away from SEO and pursue a career in web development which brought me to Enovate.

I work in the front-end development team to help translate web page designs into working web pages or building new or adjusted UI components for our new and existing clients.

Since joining Enovate I've had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of interesting and technically challenging projects which have helped my front-end skills develop greatly and resulted in work I'm really proud of.

I love being given the trust and responsibility to deliver my work to the high standards required here at Enovate and I'm excited about the prospect of enhancing my skills as my abilities grow.

The Moneyboat.co.uk project has been incredibly satisfying to work on and we were delighted to see the site go live to the public earlier today.

The project has involved a great deal of collaboration with multiple teams across different time zones all working together to deliver a finished product that the client is delighted with.

Our responsibility within the project was the Craft CMS development process, turning the approved page designs into working webpages, and the migration of content from the old Wordpress site into the new Craft site.