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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today we're delighted to announce the successful launch of the brand new Joseph Gallagher Group Craft CMS website. The Joseph Gallagher Group has its headquarters in Orsett, Essex and delivers projects around the world completing multiple award-winning tunnelling and infrastructure projects since they began operating in 1982.

We worked in close collaboration with the Group's marketing and communications manager to deliver a finished website project that both they and the board of directors could be proud of and projected their business in a crowded and competitive global marketplace.

We completed the launch of our latest Craft CMS creation earlier today, the new website for Escape Entertainment, an escape rooms business based in Bank, London and offering games in the themes of "Bank Heist" and "Murder of the West Starlet".

The project encompassed a wide varierty of the skills and services we offer here at Enovate: corporate branding, logo design, website design, Craft CMS development, website hosting, technical consultancy and finally taking charge of the ongoing website support and maintenance responsibilities now that the new website is live.

It was a long time in the making but we were delighted to launch the new Centre Tank Services website earlier today and we couldn't be happier with the end result. It's definitely been worth the hard work each and every member of the team has put into it and we're confident that the client is as happy with the end result as we are.

The new site represents a big leap forward for the client in terms of the underlying technology - moving as they have from Craft's predecessor, Expression Engine, to the latest versions of both Craft CMS and Craft Commerce. Both products bring a wealth of performance and content management advantages to the table, making the lives of the site's editors much easier on a day-to-day basis.

We're delighted to announce the successful launch of our latest Craft CMS website design and development project earlier today and pleased to introduce to the world the brand new Total Travel Protection website.

The completed website is a culmination of a project incorporating multiple work streams including: branding, logo design, website design, Craft CMS website development, website hosting and finally, now that we're live, ongoing support and maintenance responsibilities.

I started working at Enovate in 2012; 18 years of age, fresh out of my Website Design & Development apprenticeship, and hungry for a glimpse into the working world.

I was the third full time member of staff at the company when I joined, so straight away I was put into the deep end and got some fantastic hands-on experience with our existing clients, as well as working on designs and building websites for our new clients.

When I first joined Enovate our stack involved MODx, Inuit CSS, and Compass, however over the 9 years that followed, and as a I focused my attention more towards the Front-end Development aspect of projects, our stack moved to Craft CMS, Laravel, Tailwind, Webpack, GraphQL, and Next.js.

Enovate now stands as a strong team of 8, with staff from all backgrounds and experiences working together to meet the needs of their clients. I am proud to have been working at Enovate for so long, and I am proud to have been involved with laying the foundations and being a part of the team that made Enovate what it is today.

9 years is an incredibly long time for someone of my age to work for a company, especially in this industry. My many years of service is testament to the amazing team Enovate have here, and I have enjoyed working with them all.

It was very hard saying goodbye to a company that taught me so much, but I wish the company and whole team every success in the future.

The Furniture Practice collaborate with clients to deliver complex projects all over the world. No matter the style, budget or scope of a project, they’ll ensure you make the most of your furniture investment.

We've been working with The Furniture Practice since 2019, hosting and supporting their previous WordPress website. However, by 2021, that website had reached the end of its useful life and needed replacing with something better and easier to use for both staff and visitors.

We were commissioned alongside The Furniture Practices' design agency, IYA Studio, to design, develop, host and maintain a new website built on Craft CMS.

Wonderhood Studios is a British creative company founded by people who love making great ads and producing premium TV. Based in Soho, London we worked in collaboration with their design agency, IYA Studio, to deliver this project with Enovate taking responsibility for the Craft CMS development and web hosting and IYA handling the website design and account management.

This particular website has an interesting backstory because it consists of two distinct elements that were built in two phases of work and together they form the website you see today.

The first phase of the project was to build a back-end within which website content editors could enter the various emissions data for each entity - entities being countries, cities, regions and companies. This data entry work was no small task, each entity has a wide range of data associated with it and that data had to be presented in a number of ways to make consuming and understanding it as easy as possible.

The second phase was to develop the front-end of the site, taking the site designs and converting them into working web pages and integrating it all with the back-end of the site to allow visitors to read, search and discover the wealth of emissions targets information that the site editors had worked so hard to enter.

The client and partner organisations are really pleased with the finished site and we're already looking forward to working with them to expand and evolve its functionality to help ensure the entities that set net zero emissions targets are held accountable to them.

Why not take a look at the finished site yourself and if you're considering a similar project, we'd love to hear from you.

Jordan Downs

It's always a pleasure to announce the launch of a new website and this one was very close to home seeing as it was designed and developed for my neighbour! The owner and Managing Director of R. Fulcher & Sons.

Josh and I worked together on this project as I handled the design elements and he took the lead on the development work, getting stuck into the build and making use of the excellent Gatsby Javascript framework to deliver a site that not only looks great but is incredibly fast and easy to use.

In terms of search engine optimisation (SEO) the site is listed on the first page of Google.co.uk for "rendering leigh on sea" and "rendering southend" which ensures excellent exposure within the company's main regions and drives potential leads directly to the site and then on towards making an enquiry via the prominent calls to action.

We're really pleased with the site we've designed, developed and host for R. Fulcher & Sons and look forward to working with them for many years to come.

If you're considering a similar website project, take a look at the new R. Fulcher & Sons website and then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you.