It’s great to see the results of our training courses, and below are websites built by Pootlepress WordPress training customers. If you have attended one of our WordPress training courses and would like to be included in this list, please email jamiemarsland@pootlepress.co.uk.
Please click on the images to see the websites in all their glory :)
This WordPress site was built by Meredith, a freelance photographer based in London. She photograph’s weddings, celebrations, families, animals and even the occasional birth.
“After working as a photographer for more then 10 years I finally have a website. I thought of websites as expensive, confusing to manage and riddled with gliches and bugs. After learning about wordpress from a friend I decided to attend the Pootlepress 1 day wordpress course. I walked into the workshop a complete novice 6 hours later I left confident that I could finally have a website! I’m blown away by how simple it is to build and manage your own website using wordpress. A month later I completed a professional looking website that I can mantain myself without the expense, confusion and bugs.”
Meredith Mullooly
The Janine Louise Elkins website was built by her husband Gavin Elkins, a multi-disciplined designer with over 10 years industry experience covering the fields of product design, interior design and graphic design.
“I couldn’t believe my luck when I Googled WordPress training and it came up with Jamie and Pootlepress in Cheltenham. Having grown up in the area, it was a pleasure to return to familiar surroundings. Having designed many websites for high-profile clients, up until now I have not been able to actually build them myself! Jamie gave me the knowledge to do this, for which I am extremely grateful. All in a relaxed and friendly environment.”
Gavin Elkins
The Marcus Spencer website was developed by Laurance Hale a marketing business development consultant with over 18 years’ experience working for major advertising, marketing communication and PR agencies such as Saatchi and Saatchi, Grey, BRANN, IMP, Weber Shandwick, Lexis and IDNet.
“Having managed the content of a number of WordPress websites I thought it high time that I learnt how to build one. Having googled ‘WordPress training’ I found Pootlepress right on my doorstep. I have just completed the one day introductory course and was blown away. Jamie’s excellent tuition has enabled me to build my very first professional looking and performing website with ease. This course is a must for any non-technical person wanting to master the power of WordPress”.
Laurence Hale
Ryhope Infant School website was built by I-Netco Ltd. They specialise in Web Design, WordPress, Joomla, Search Engine Optimisation and Search Marketing.
“Many thanks for yesterday’s training, I needed to fast-track my WordPress skills and making the effort to get to Cheltenham from my base in Newcastle was well worth the effort. I now feel as though I have the skills I need to use WordPress in my business safe in the knowledge that I can access the follow up resources that you provide.”
Gerry King
www.hollieseast-weimaraners.co.uk
Hollieseast Weimaraners is the website of Weimaraner breeder Eve Robinson in Norfolk, UK, who has more than forty years experience in this HPR gundog breed. The WordPress site was created by her friend following the 1 day WordPress training course.
“The pootlepress 1 day WordPress training course was pitched at exactly the right level and I can’t recommend it highly enough! Having tried to find my way around WordPress unassisted for quite some time, Jamie’s helpful tuition gave me the foundation knowledge I really needed to get started. Since completing the course I’ve been able to create a number of different WordPress websites for various clients. The Hollieseast site has been the first of these to go live and I’m really pleased with the end result.”
Thea Vincent
www.imagineafrica.com
Imagine Africa are award winning Africa safari experts specializing in customized safaris. This site was built by Jo Shuttleworth their Commercial Director.
“Being successful at selling tailor-made luxury holidays in the UK, we wanted to see if we could replicate this in the US market. To do this we needed a website specifically to test the market. Web designers costs were coming in at around £7-10k for the most basic site. And then we found Pootlepress. With one day of one-to-one training, we were able to set-up a new website for our US market.”
Jo Shuttleworth
www.imagineindia.co.uk
After the success of Imagine Africa, the company decided to launch Imagine India offering luxury tailor-made holidays and private tours around India and Nepal.
Electric Plums is borne out of sheer love, passion & joy for house music and was been built by Martin Noakes. He attended our Learn WordPress in a day training course.
“After stumbling around with WordPress not really knowing what I was doing for a month, I left your course with the confidence and knowledge I needed to get my site up and running. In fact within a few days of attending your course I had our site designed and online”
Martin Noakes
This site was built by Andy Wheatley after attending our Learn WordPress in 1 day course in Cheltenham. Andy runs OQO and is a communications strategist who has worked with many of the world’s leading brands and organisations.
Crystal Clear Writing was built by Jane Brotchie, a freelance professional writer, with over fifteen years’ experience of developing distance and online learning materials.
“The day’s training was brilliant – just what I needed to kickstart me into bringing my site into the twenty-first century. Jamie’s hands-on approach really helped me to know where to start and the take-away materials were a useful reminder of everything I’d learned when I came to work on my own WordPress site.”
Jane Brotchie
www.changshapkido.net
Chang’s Hapkido Academy is a traditional martial arts school offering martial arts instruction to students in London. This site features an integrated blog, and a private members only area.
www.insighttoaction.co.uk
Insight to Action was created by Mandy Hetherton, an experienced professional coach. She works with business owners, leaders and managers who want to make their life at work more enjoyable and rewarding.
www.theanswercentre.co.uk
The Answer Centre website was built by owner Andy Gillen after attending our 1 day WordPress training course. It has been providing Telephone Answering and Business Address Services for over 12 years from it’s offices in Edinburgh and Wokingham.
www.globalpromotionalsolutions.com
Global Promotional Solutions provide bespoke as well as an online catalogue of over 1,000 promotional products. Their site is based on a custom version of the WordPress 2010 theme.
Claire Kerr is a business-to-business marketing consultant based in Croydon who works with £1m+ companies. A qualified marketer with more than 20 years’ experience, she offers a range of services, including marketing strategy and planning, social media, blog writing, websites, copywriting, email marketing, PR, literature.
Simply Retreats provides day, weekend and week long retreats. This site was built after attending our Learn WordPress in 1 day training course.
This is a community website built by Heather for the Dorset holiday village where she has a holiday cottage, in Chideock and neighbouring Seatown.
“It was launched on 31st July and is regularly updated by members of the village. It has already proved to be very popular with the locals and visitors alike as there is something on there for everyone. My own company website is next on the list for the WordPress treatment! By the way, I can tell that Pootlepress is going from strength to strength with your updates. The standard of some of the customer websites just goes to show what a great trainer you are.”
Heather
“We wanted a website that could be self managed with the ability to add pages to promote our paving and landscaping business – thanks to Jamie we can do just that!”
www.youthexchange.org.uk
Rotary Youth Exchange gives young people between the ages of 15 and 25 the opportunity to obtain useful skills and knowledge to succeed in their chosen career through a variety of programmes managed by a global network of 1.25 million members of Rotary International.
“I have created a new site for Rotary Youth Exchange and I am in the process of creating another, which will be launched on 1st February, for a big charity walk along the length of the River Severn.”
The how 2 get hired website was built after Malcolm Leith attended our ‘Learn WordPress in 1 day training course’. The site provides resources, insights and tools to help you write a great CV and prepare for a job interview.
