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The Culinary Academy
Website Development
A feast of rich content and easy access to the menu combine to create a recipe for a great website.
The Pudding
Nothing short of spectacular. The Shapeshift team has never seized to impress me. Over the past several years, I have had the pleasure of working closely with the team on three different websites, each catering for a specific target audience. The latest website is by far my personal favourite - www.tca.co.za
Team Shapeshift did an outstanding job of making our business their business. They were quick to identify our needs, understand our company culture and the key selling points we wanted to bring across.
At The Culinary Academy we are famous for offering our clients 'something different' and unique. That is exactly what Dawie and his team at Shapeshift had to create for us. A website that was different, unique, functional, beautiful, professional and most importantly, a true reflection of The Culinary Academy and our offering.
It is a real pleasure to be able to focus on our core business and be able to rely with total confidence on the skills and capabilities of the Shapeshift team.
Our new TCA website launched on time and came in on budget and we have never looked back. The proof of the pudding is in the eating as they say.
We receive daily compliments on our website and those who had interacted with us via the site have thanked us for the way in which we have packaged the large volume of information with regards to our courses without loosing the wow factor.
To date we have had no downtime, our international sales are up by 200%, and online enquiries are up by nearly 400%, all because of an easy-to-find and easy-to-use website - and a little help from our friends at Shapeshift.
Having something different and unique to offer our clients, is what we do. Being able to connect The Culinary Academy's world to that of a want-to-be world class chef, sitting in a small remote village in the northern region of China, is a result of the hard work by the small passionate team at Shapeshift.
I look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship.
Hugo Coetzee
Marketing Manager, The Culinary Academy
Project details
Requirements
The Culinary Academy (TCA), is a respected educational institute in the culinary arts.
Their state of the art facility, farm based environment and on campus boarding home makes TCA one of the world's most innovative and professional educational institutes for any aspiring chef.
TCA required the website to reflect their unique attributes and make student enrolment as quick and easy as possible.
Solution
Shapeshift Interactive designed the website to portray TCA's professional approach to their courses while still giving the user a memorable experience.
The website features various galleries, information on their courses and workshops.
The website has an integrated CMS to enable TCA to manage their content effortlessly.
The next phase of the website will integrate a student login section where students can view information about exams and their progress through their courses.
Technologies
- XHTML
- CSS
- AJAX
- FLASH
- PHP
- MYSQL
Projects Completed For This Client
The Culinary Academy

