Cyprus Surgery

This is probably my oldest site - for the Simos Kyriakides Clinic in Larnaka. 
It is in HTML with a built-in Flash presentation for the brave-of-bandwidth from the way-back days when we all thought Flash was up and coming rather than just hanging around being embarrasingly precocious and screwing up download times.

Inhostage.com

This is another old site - now in it's third incarnation. 
It's the on-line gallery for a collection of photographs inside the dead zone of occupied Famagusta, since the fall of the Berlin wall, the last divided city in the world.

There is a Flash version as well, but its principally noteworthy for the music - well worth listening to until you can get the digital download version of the book  which I created as well :-) 

Trust a Trader

And something more recent - the dynamic TrustATrader.com.cy complete with bulletin board, article management system and the option for the owners to sell advertising space on the site.

Any use of untried technology (new dynamic system) is something of a nail biter, but unless you are ready to push the envelope occasionally your favourite product can go end of life and your websites with it  leaving you ever so slightly swinging in the breeze :-)

Rimentalia Developers

A property developer's site - I had fun with this one  :-). 
I decided to go for total access to information - the ability to go anywhere relevant from anywhere within the site in a single click.  Totally intuitive.
As a result you can open images from images within the gallery system by clicking on specific parts of images for more details, contact data and other properties close to hand with idiot proof menus for everything.

Englesos.net

Looks familiar perhaps...this site uses the the same "chassis" as Trust a Trader (above) but despite this fact   I think it still offers plenty of individuality such that sites using the system do not resemble the usual templated clones that many long-suffering punters wind up stuck with. 
One of the reasons I like HTML is that the elements of "same-ness" that most dynamics suffer from are not an issue when you build from scratch. 
You can build dynamic from scratch of course if you have a year or two to spare or else €30,000 on the budget available for squandering - but somehow even the high-end custom built sites seem to share that certain "stark but functional minimalism" style.

HotSpring Cyprus

More messing around with HTML (love it  :D ) with the goal of selling top-quality spas but again demonstrating - to those who are still unconvinced - that you can have loads of interactivity in HTML, and darn good it is too if used for a practical goal.
This site uses a dual navigation system - DHTML drop-downs with a nice fady effect for those who already know where they are going and (on the right) mouse over images to showcase the products and then lead you to the item of your choice.
Despite the advent of the hyper-cranky IE8, the system works well  as HTML is justafiably famed for it's stability, needs no plugins to work and doesn't chew up much in the way of the way of server resources to display the site and utilises the browser cache so it's fast too.

Nissiotis Restaurant

An excellent family restaurant right down on the beach in Protaras (Cyprus) wanted a website just to be seen on the net, encourage customer loyalty by posting a few photographs and keep people up to speed on what was happening to the place between seasons.
They get quite a bit of repeat business, which could always be encouraged by staying in touch via the site, but giving the Nissiotis-aware public in the UK something to show the guys at the office during coffee break is no bad idea either.
Simple, fun and effective - fairly findable on money hungry Google and now in its third year on-line. 
It also has the distinction of being one of the few dynamic sites where the owner said "yeah, I'll update it" and he (and his wife) actually DID!

CyNMA

This is the second site that I have designed for the Cyprus Nurses and Midwives Association, initially we went dynamic intending that the organisation would do the bulk of it's own updates but pressures of work meant that I was "remote control" for the project anyway so for the rebuild we enjoyed the luxury of HTML and something generally a little more snazzy.
The bulk of the text is in the Greek language as befits an official organisation in Cyprus so I'm lucky to have plenty of help with the content!

New Wave Tattoo

Artists are notoriously hard to work with as they know exactly what they want but (usually) without any idea as to the technical issues involved in achiving their goals.  Plus not all of them have the flexability to see past the  initial restriction on-line to a solution aimed at achiving their goals by another route.
I too would like the freedom to put fifty 300 DPI watermarked images on a single page - the quality would be superb - but is the average punter likely to wait half an hour for them to finally pop up on his monitor?
We need to compromise and "but I want it" isn't going to change anything.
Happily for me, Ashley Davis is a combination of artist (witnes his gallery and his New Wave "Tsunami" artwork) and practical, results driven individual that made his design requirements creative, specific, effective and achivable given just a tad of tweaking and and element of imagination.
I like the this site not only because it is bright and lively but because it is the result of effective, creative cooperation between client and designer.
Note a tad of CSS clever-dickery in that the site centers vertically to monitors of different sizes/resolutions

S K Developers

A property site (again) for a local developer.
This is an example of my "splash page compromise" technique. 
Spash pages are the pages that function much as the cover of a book - bright, colourful and attention grabbing like the window of a shop whilst the real content lurks within.  Alternatively they are a time wasting exercise that delays Joe Punter getting to the meat of the issue.
I aim to go for both where I judge that this option is best for the client. 
So the splash page has enough content to justify its presence and to "headline" the point of the site but in a bite (or byte) sized chunk to motivate the viewer to stay with the plot and find out more.

Note also that with a developer, the number of properties on offer is limited - how many developments are they actually building/selling at one time? This lends itself to either dynamic or HTML as sophisticated search systems (find all properties near the sea with two bedrooms and under €150,000)  are not really needed when there are only (for example) twenty houses and ten flats to choose from.
An estate agents has potentially hundreds of properties and so a versitile, flexable dynamic search system is a major asset for the public when sifting through the inappropriate to single out their chosen options.

Thudguardcyprus.com

This baby helmet is a new product to Cyprus, and an entrepreneurial client has become sole importer.
The new site is their on-line marketplace and - rather than on-line credit card issues - she will be using the local courier services to transfer the product and to accept payment.
Effective and uncomplicated - just like life ought to be!

I thought the simple roll-over effect on the front page particularly effective in illustrating the point  under discussion.

Engraving, Graphics and Design

I needed a web page for a printing firm that I was cooperating with so I created two sites - one dynamic and the other HTML.  The major problem I ran into was that really we had very little to say! 
There are only just so many ways of saying that you are a printer and designer before it all becomes just too much like hard work.  Standard platitudes about speed and efficiency but nothing really fresh.
So - I made the graphics do the work and the text is minimal - just basic statements of "we can do the following" with strong images, bright passionate colours and easy navigation as always. 
The 4 Ls always apply.
To put an original spin on the project, rather than the standard menu styles I used the whole left third of the page on a menu-logo column that is bright and exciting with iconic image buttons rather than text links.  Clear and vivid - everything the page's textual content isn't! 
On the right are "before and after" images for those who didn't and did make the right decision about who to send their printing to.

Dri-Home Cyprus

With this site I had the perfect combination of an informed client selling successfully an excellent product and with a clear idea of the direction he wanted to go.  Ahhhhh! Perfect!
I was able to play with design ideas for subsequent approval by the owner and with the results that we had our first enquiry via the website within 48 hours of it going live.
Good product, well presented and effectively marketed.  Money in the bank  :-)

Very fast site too, considering the amount of graphic content.

Chromata Apartment

A property owner looking for extra income from his apartment - but requiring the appropriate booking system on-line and availability calander that he can update himself together with a sexy-looking site to attract the punters.
I liked the "chain of events" approach across the top, from fluffy jumper to bikini.  Discrete but to the point I thought.

Easy!

With the English community well established in Cyprus, there is a market for English-orientated services and products, especially our favourite munchies.

Greens offers an excellent selection, and now offers that same selection on-line, via cash or PayPal.