2008

Hertfordshire based KGC Venues and Events offer unbiased advice on UK and European Venues from their office in Hertfordshire and also offer Event Management with as little or much input as required.

Enterprise Fine Art is an on-line gallery created in eZ Publish to provide quality artworks to the discerning collector. You can browse the selection of fine art either by artist, medium or subject or by simply using the eZ Publish search engine; and then make your purchase on-line using PayPal.

EAB has developed a completely new website for St Albans Museums, based on eZ Publish. A key feature of the new website is the searchable image collection, containing over 6000 images, including photographs, prints, watercolours, drawings, oil paintings and postcards relating to St Albans City and District. The majority of these images were previously only accessible to the public by appointment.

EAB has developed a website for Joy of Life to promote its custom-made vacation programmes. 

Nicole Wehden, director of Joy of Life, writes:

"Andre and his team developed a website for me recently and I'm absolutely delighted with the results. The design was highly creative and professional and gives the exact look and feel I was looking for. It's very user friendly and a massive benefit that has gone beyond my expectations, as is its flexibility and the extent to which I can easily change 85% of the front end of the site whenever I want. On top of all that it cost me far less than I expected and therefore represents excellent value for money for something with which I am delighted. In addition, Andre has been a pleasure to work with and is highly customer focussed - a great guy doing a great job. Thank you so much Andre and the EAB team!"

At the beginning of May, EAB completed a new website for St Albans City & District Council, called Recycling for a Premier Community. Based on eZ Publish 4.0 and utilising Ajax technology, this website provides information about the new recycling services provided by the council, including an on-line search facility for residents to find their refuse and recycling collection days.

On Thursday May 8th, EAB's managing director Andre Bottin gave a talk "How can an artist succeed on the Internet". This evening event is a regular Networking event run by Creative Herts (www.creativeherts.com).

This talk is aimed at those who are keen to make a living out of their artistic gifts and provide useful tips on how to create a winning strategy. Although the talk includes loads of tips on what to do and what not to do with a website it actually majors on a number of necessary marketing activities which are necessary to be successful.

Andre's experience in web development is considerable as he's been implementing web solutions since 1995 for a wide range of clients, including local government, commercial organisations and many small businesses. Andre has also business interest and experience in the local art scene, both via his online gallery ventures: enterprisefineart.com and island-of-art.com and as being a long term Organising Group Committee member of the Hertfordshire Visual Arts Forum. Andre runs a newsletter dedicated to artists, more information about how to subscribe can be found at www.eab.co.uk/artists/.

For further information contact Andre on 07931328017 or via email at abottin@eab.co.uk or his company's website at www.eab.co.uk.

EAB redeveloped the Diocese of St Albans website using eZ Publish 4. The Diocese covers a wide geographical area in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Luton and North Barnet. The website provides text, video and audio information about the services, resources and events available across the Diocese. It also provides relevant national and local news using RSS feeds. A weekly calendar of events, modified from eZ Publish's standard calendar facility, keeps churches and individuals around the Diocese up to date with what's happening locally and at organisational level.

EAB is proud to announce the creation of a Representative Office in France, in the French Riviera, the native home of Andre Bottin, its founder and Managing Director. We aim to offer Internet services to both French local businesses and the large British ex-pat community. Indeed, with its international perspective EAB is well suited to serve like-minded companies. This new office, as with our office in China will rely on its local presence on the Internet, via the eab-france.com website, powered by eZ Publish. The site is both in French and in English.

In December, EAB completed a new website for the Specialist Cheesemakers' Association.