Otto Mruttu

Web Design•on May 18th, 2010•No Comments

Otto Mruttu + Partners Architects is an award-winning, design-led architectural practice in Nairobi, Kenya. The practice has impressive collective expertise across a broad range of sectors and building typology, including cultural, living, workspace, hotel and leisure, education, infrastructure, logistics, business parks and major masterplanning projects both in Kenya and internationally.

Site: www.ottomruttu.com
Modules

  • Portfolio – Categorised portfolio, richly presented using Flash Slideshow, each item managed in bespoke CMS
  • Company Information – hierarchical Multi level subpages / child pages
  • People – Careers, Staff and leadership
  • Services – – hierarchical Multi level subpages / child pages

Technology (LAMP)

  • Operating System: Linux
  • Database: MySQL
  • Server: Apache
  • Software and Other: PHP, jQuery, JavaScript, SlideShowPro
  • Custom CMS

Evamar

Web Design•on February 1st, 2010•No Comments

Evamar Holdings

Simple Alliance is proud to have added the chic Evamar Holdings website to our ever innovative project portfolio.

Client Overview

Headquartered along Nyangumi Road in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city, our client constructs mixed use, varied sized structures. Evamar Holdings has close working ties with distinguished interior designers and architects. Aiming to deliver excellent, modern properties, our client greatly values imaginativeness and accuracy. Indeed, persons with an acute sense of style will find Evamar a useful business partner.

Project Synopsis

For the elegant Evamar Holdings, Simple Alliance developed a matching website that is not only functional, but also catchy. The ground-breaking website features equally distinctive e elements such as:
  • Exciting pause and play slide show pane
  • Versatile Home, Developments, and Contact Us tabs
  • Interactive search menu featuring Size, Price Limit, and Development icons
  • Versatile Search tab
  • Comprehensive static contact details
  • Brochure download tab
  • Newsletter sign-up feature
  • Social network link icons
Pause and Play Slide Show Pane
Seeing is believing, so the saying goes. In line with our client’s outstanding quality, Simple Alliance incorporated the slideshow feature into our client’s website. At a glance, a visitor is taken through a striking panorama of projects that highlight Evamar Holdings building principles. Portraying side and aerial views of our client’s projects, the slide show pane cannot be more comprehensive.
Versatile Home, Developments, and Contact Us tabs
We believe that proper organisation of elements permits orderly scrutiny of the items. This Simple Alliance principle is reflected in the well-ordered Home, Developments, and Contact Us tabs we have integrated into our client’s project. The user-friendly tabs direct visitors to the relevant sections of Evamar Holdings website.
Interactive Search Menu
Simple Alliance is acutely aware that user comfort is an essential quality of any website worth its salt. To this end, we have incorporated a Search option which consists of Development, Size, and Price Limit drop down icons.
Development
Under this option, the various completed projects under the Evamar Holdings portfolio are listed for user perusal.
Size
This feature provides the various development sizes in a list form. Users can scan any of the listed size categories.
Price Limit/
Simple Alliance believes that inclusivity is vital to any sustainable business. We have thus created a Price selection dropdown feature where visitors can select their preferred price range.
Search Tab
Using this feature, visitors can enter different search terms and explore our client’s website for the keyed in terminology. This tab ensures that users do not miss anything that is presented ion the Evamar Holdings website.
Contact Details
Within this section, the phone, email, and physical addresses of our client are provided. Users do not have to worry about how to contact Evamar Holdings. Further, Simple Alliance incorporated the Email a Friend and Request a Callback options in this website segment. Visitors can easily not only inform their colleagues about our client’s exquisite features, they can also ask Simple Alliance Evamar Holdings to get in touch.
Brochure Download Tab
We strongly hold that correspondence is an integral component of all progressive businesses. Adhering to this wisdom, we have availed a brochure download facility through which users can access the various publications where our client’s products are presented.
Newsletter Sign-up Feature
It is important that a business remains in constant contact with customers, prospective and existing ones. To satisfy this requirement, Simple Alliance has integrated a newsletter subscription facility into the Evamar Holdings website. This feature allows interested users to register their interest in receiving our client’s periodicals.
Social Network Link Icons
The web is today’s meeting place. Any business entity that seeks to effectively communicate with the huge web-based audience should thus have a robust web presence. Social media is an integral driver of web communication. We sincerely believe in the limitless opportunities presented by the web. To this need, has incorporated link icons to various social networking sites. The stylishness and modernity of our client is profoundly proclaimed through this contemporary outlook of the website.

Summary

Simple Alliance, your ever creative digital partner, has broken the record once again by developing a cutting-edge website for Evamar Holdings. Featuring various user-friendly, chic, and functional components, the web site reflects our client’s elegant profile. Indeed, the website is a real innovative phenomenon.

Zayari

Web Design•on October 1st, 2009•No Comments
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Journey Kenya Web Identity Project

Web Design•on January 2nd, 2009•No Comments

Journey Kenya Website Design Project

Client Basics

Journey Kenya – a web based tour and travel agency – is a reputable integrated lodge and hotel booking and payment facilitation firm. Our client has an up-to-date database featuring information about a wide range of accommodation facilities.

Project Overview and Expectations

Following close consultation with our client, Simple Alliance resolved to develop a neat, professional and user-friendly website. Our client wanted a design that features attractive tools while providing localised content to users. Basically, the Journey Kenya website was envisaged to facilitate our client’s seamless contact with local as well as global clients. Further, the proposed site aimed to consolidate Journey Kenya’s brand identity that focuses on boutique and luxury accommodation facilities in Kenya.

Project Highlights

The Journey Kenya website features a number of significant, functional elements, including: News; Specials; Discover; and Hotels.
Hotels
Being at the core of our client’s business, the Hotels section received adequate attention from our dedicated personnel. Simple Alliance thus subdivided the section into two parts, namely: Comprehensive Hotel and lodge data; and Online Booking and Accommodation subcomponents.
News
Undoubtedly, information is power, especially in this age of astounding dynamism. Recognising this fact, Simple Alliance incorporated a News section onto the Journey Kenya website. Within this section, users interact with current information about relevant happenings within the hospitality sector. We used a tailored word press subdirectory installation for this section.
Specials
Variety is the spice of life. Interacting with the same thing over and over – even though the interaction is exquisite – is a sure recipe for fatigue or burnout. Journey Kenya is intensely aware of this fact. To preclude the possibility of user lethargy, we thus incorporated a Specials feature onto our client’s website. Within this section, users will learn about out-of-the-ordinary customised holiday packages that involve numerous destinations and which offer varied travel experiences.
Discover
The Discover section focuses on Kenya. Here, users savour a wide array of information about the picturesque East African gem. Our client is at liberty to provide users with Kenyan travel data touching on aspects such as: activities, destinations; or experiences and activities. Our dedicated design team utilised a custom word press subdirectory installation to develop the Discover section.

Technological Input

Simple Alliance has embraced high-tech technology as is evident in the sophisticated Journey Kenya website. Major modern technology components that went into the project include:
  • The reliable and flexible Windows Server R2 operating system
  • The powerful Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database management system
  • A secure Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 server
  • The dynamic, structured JavaScript scripting language
  • The concise and fast jQuery graphics software
  • The functional, fast ASP.net 3.5 graphics software