Portfolio

Content management system

  • South Cape Coins is one of South Africa’s premier rare coin dealers and have been in existence for over 6 years with experience of more than 14 years in the industry. As a part of the e-marketing strategy developed by Lima Bean, a new website was required to be designed. The website was required to be slick, search engine friendly, content rich and easily updatable. Lima Bean developed the site in Expression Engine, migrating the original Joomla content.

  • AMC cookware offers the finest quality cookware with a lifetime guarantee through a country wide network of consultants. The company has been active in South Africa since 1968 and required a Content Management System that would be easy to use and let them keep the website fresh and up to date. Lima Bean conceptualised, designed and developed the website based on a high quality commercial CMS.

  • NuWater is a global company, delivering large volumes of high quality and competitively priced cleaned water through modular self-contained Reverse Osmosis (RO) water treatment plants. The new website was developed in partnership with Robertson Wade Design and is a fully fledged content management system that lets the client administer all areas of the site easily and securely.

  • MySafari.com is an online community of travellers to Africa and those with a passion for African travel. The high traffic website is owned and managed by Go2Africa, one of the leading online travel agents. Lima Bean rewrote the website in Expression Engine, which now features a forum, traveller blogs and photo and video sections – each with extensive social media integration.

  • Tswalu Kalahari is South Africa’s largest private game reserve, covering an area of over 100,000 hectares. Owned by the Oppenheimer family the game reserve offers luxurious, 5 star accommodation with international celebrities such as Bono from U2 having been visitors. The aim of the website, developed by Lima Bean, is to showcase some of the beauty, tranquillity and magic on offer at Tswalu.

  • Baby Sense is a high traffic and very active website for parents with young children to find resources, ask questions and get advice. Lima Bean developed the new site to be highly interactive and integrated with social media to allow for maximum participation and support on each of the pages. The website was migrated from a custom platform to Expression Engine. This allows administrators to easily manage all areas of the site.

  • Travel Motives is Southern Africa's premier destination management company, creating tailored experiences in Southern Africa for meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions. Lima Bean re-designed and developed their website with user experience and conversion in mind. The website is built using Expression Engine and is fully manageable from an administration area.

  • CMO Solution are a strategic marketing consulting company with offices in Toronto and Park City, Utah. They required a high quality Content Management System to be designed and implemented to showcase their offering. Lima Bean custom designed and developed each page according to best practice usability and design principles.

  • African Travel Gateway is one of the leading suppliers of African safaris, tours and accommodation. The company required a highly search engine friendly CMS that would be flexible and allow content administrators to easily maintain the site and publish fresh content. Lima Bean partnered with ROI Media, leaders in search engine optimisation to produce the African Travel Gateway CMS.

  • Taxi Trucks is one of the leading B2B express freight organisations in South Africa. As well as being responsible for their in-house IT system, Lima Bean re-designed their website, giving it a fresh and modern look and feel. The website also integrates with their backend systems to allow for "tracking & tracing", the placing of online collections and the looking up billing zones.

  • Lima Bean was commissioned to completely redesign and develop the Outdoor Warehouse website. The new website is a feature rich content management system that integrates directly with Outdoor Warehouse’s stock management system. This gives an almost real time snapshot of product availability in stores. Users are able to register and login, add products to their wish list, perform advanced searches and sign up to the Gear Mail newsletter.

  • Dirty Boots is a well established South African adventure guide. They required a highly search engine friendly CMS to allow them to easily manage content and gain maximum exposure on search engines. Users are able to search for adventure operators using keywords, categories, locations and even Google maps.

  • Smith Tabata Buchanan Boyes (STBB) is one of the leading law firms in South Africa, with a particular focus on conveyancing and property law. The company required a CMS-based website to enable regular and straight forward updating of content. The website also includes integration with the firm's legal software and enables customers to log in to the website and view their property transfers in real time.

  • NJR Steel is one of the leading suppliers of steel products and services, with branches in the main steel producing regions of South Africa. NJR Steel approached Lima Bean to re-vamp their website and let them easily publish and manage content on a regular basis. The website features full content management capabilities, a blog section, searching and a map based branch locator.