La Maison de Cordelia is one of the first websites created by the colaboration of Martyn Pavey and Cordelia Malthere, the co founders of The IT Eyes. The impetus was for Cordelia to share her passion for one of her favourite hobbies which was cooking but also her love of food. 

The website was conceived with the generic process of being very personal and individual. The template was like a blank page to be filled in with the impetus and personal taste of the individual wanting it. In this case it was Cordelia Malthere, who wanted a site which could represent some of her personality, her memories, but also be like a diary of some sort which could always be updated and flexible.

It worked in practice like a lifetime project or a specific album of one part of your life which you want to be highlighted. Some things are important to you therefore you want to be able to share your passion in your own words but also in a creative context which does resonate with you and strikes the right cord. 

With the IT Eyes, you have the possibility to strike your own cord and play your own tune. You can choose the template, the colour scheme and the vibe you want to display within your site. This is your musical/physical ideas put into your website. The best thing is that it is also flexible.

For La Maison de Cordelia, the site started when I was still fully mobile so I was able to cook and garden daily. Then things did change therefore I had to rethink my lifestyle but trying to still have a bright day after all. La Maison de Cordelia helped me to put things into perspective. It was a place where I was building the future, based from my past and my living present. You could call this a stepping stone.

That website helped me to rebound from my physical struggle. I hope that anyone facing a challenge can stay open to the world to voice what they are living through. It is the light at the end of the tunnel. It is sharing the love of living and what living means to you.

FS-Designs provided a complete website redesign improving the navigation, look and feel, as well as the styling, all done to Ethan's taste and requirements; in addition, the website was relocated onto our secure hosting environment, which is monitored 24x7. While Ethan maintains the everyday content with our guidance, we do provide an ongoing design and development service to maintain the website to his rigorous specification. In addition, the core systems are periodically updated as and when major software versions are changed.

Ethan Rider has been engaged in the business of purchasing, selling, evaluating, photographing, appraising, and researching African tribal art since 2004. His primary focus in recent years has been African blades – both genuine and inauthentic – as well as photography, consulting, and exhibiting. He is available for private appointments in Oakland, CA. He has dedicated many years to cultivating his expertise inany time African art, particularly traditional arms, metalwork, terracotta, and the material culture of Nigeria’s Tiv people.

All works of art on his website are unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic and accurately described.

He offers photography, appraisal, and consulting services to individuals but also institutions domestically and internationally. He participates within the tribal art community in an active and meaningful way, on occasions in public forums. 

The addition of the website allows him to massively expand his market penetration to reach more people anywhere in the world at anytime. It also allows Ethan to maintain his privacy while giving potential customers the ability to contact him.

FS-Designs, based in Hertfordshire, build customer editable websites using the latest versions of  Concrete5 open source  Content Management System. For the end user, this means day to day content changes can be made without requiring specialist tools and developers, this is all done in a standard web browser using a logical and friendly interface. We deliver these websites and web-apps to both Businesses and Customers alike. We also work with Shopify, Presta-shop and Magento.

FS-Designs will work closely with you during the design phase, the build and after the website is live. If you opt to use our UK based web-hosting and email we can perform a full switching service to minimise website downtime which can be a problem if done incorrectly.

We build websites that are designed for your Marketing efforts, our SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) can tune your website to improve your visibility in search engines.

In this world of ever-increasing Cyber hacking activity, where 97% of all emails are spam, where phishing emails are becoming ever more believable, FS-Designs had to expand and change. The decision was taken to split the customer-facing services and the development activities.  These have been put under one brand The-IT-Eyes. FS-Designs will continue but will now focus more on the web development side, The-IT-Eyes will take this mantra forward and add Increasing levels of web security, increasing levels of message filtering and spam management, and the addition  of cyber security options.