Ownbeat are very pleased to announce that we’ll be designing the new site for Jessie’s Fund, a major charity based in York.

Since 1995, Jessie’s Fund has been using music to help improve the lives of disabled and seriously ill children. They’ve been very sucessful at this. Notably, Jessie’s Fund has supplied musical instruments to all 40 children’s hospices in the UK. Thanks to them, 28 hospices also have music therapists on the staff. Their “Soundtracks” workshops give children in special-needs schools the chance to create and record their own music.

We plan to make their website more exciting, to reflect the great work Jessie’s Fund is doing. Visually, there will be a mix of photography and hand-drawn illustration. There’ll be more multimedia content, and social media will be integrated to make the best of Jessie’s Fund’s strong Twitter and Facebook following.

The new site will have more case studies: we want to put across the personal experience of some of the children who’ve been helped by Jessie’s Fund. We’ll also expand and improve the on-line resources section for teachers and music therapists.

We’re proud to have been chosen for this project, and can’t wait to get started!

It’s been an exciting couple of weeks at Ownbeat, with the launch of two major projects. Both were complete re-designs, bigger and better replacements for already substantial sites. We’ve put a lot into these two websites, so it’s very satisfying to see them up and running.

The first is a website for the high-profile arts and culture magazine Aesthetica. It features both lavishly illustrated teasers for magazine articles, and free reviews and interviews in the Aesthetica blog. Frequent links to the shopping cart system make it easy for customers to purchase current issues, subscriptions and back issues, or even individual articles.

A market town in Northamptonshire, Brackley may be small, but there’s plenty going on there. Building the new website for Brackley Town Council, our priority was to make important information as accessible as possible. We’ve created an attractive, uncluttered interface that should do exactly that!

We have also been hard at work on numerous smaller projects, including a  website for Beware of the Bull. They’re a consultancy who, amoung other things, help charities to make more successful funding bids. We’re proud to be associated with them.

Ordeeo provide cutting-edge  audio production to companies accross the UK.

Ownbeat are helping to rebrand the company and develop a web presence that is contemporary and creative. Here is a sneak peek at some of our initial artwork.