Specialist website design for driving instructors in the UK

Clients sites

Below are links to clients live sites which you can visit to see how the designs have been adapted to suit their requirements and target customer.

124. Coming soon !

More sites to be added soon - Watch this space

123. Intensives with Attitude

Design 21 has neem adaped for this site which is to promote the intensive courses supplied by 'The Right Attitude' (see site 103).

Intensive courses provided in and around Seventoaks in Kent.

122. Daves Intensive School of Motoring

Design 20 with a blue colour scheme.

Dave's Intensive SOM provide driving lessons in the Sheffield area.

121. PASS TIME (Driving School Southend)

Design 16 with the 'Fading outline' effect and using an existing logo.

Pass Time school of motoring offer driving lessons in and around Southend, Rayleigh, Leigh, Westcliff, Rochford and Hockley.

120. Rod Smith Driving Tuition

Design 19 with a couple of additional pages and the 'Out of frame' special effect.

Rod Smith Driving Tuition offers instruction in the Sevenoaks / West kent area.

119. Drive 2 Success

Design 19. The logo was 're-drawn' from one supplied allowing it to be used in a customised flash animation.

Drive 2 Success cover Milton Keynes, Bletchley, Leighton Buzzard and surrounding areas.

118. Street Drive

Design 15 has been used but an 'overlap' page has been added to show the areas covered.

Street Drive SOM provide driving lessons in Bath, Trowbridge, Chippenham, Corsham, Melksham, Bradford on Avon, Frome, Warminster, Westbury, Calne & surrounding areas

117. Lomond Driving Tuition

Design 19 wth a blue colour scheme

Lomond Driving Tuition is based in Leighton Buzzard / Bletchley

116. Buskin School of Motoring

Design 16 was the base for this site with a 'Show Me / Tell Me' page plus an additional page to promote a 'Day Trip' driving lesson scheme.

Buskin SOM provide driving lessons in Newbold Verdon, Desford, Barlestone, Market Bosworth, Leicester Forest East, Earl Shilton, Barwell & surrounding areas

115. ADI T UK - John Pierrepont Driver Training

Design 19. John already has a site for his learner driving school but needed another for his ADI training.

ADI T UK offer ADI training in the Midlands

114. Car Trekking

Design 15 with a completely unique theme! Dave Kirk wanted something a little unusal. He used 'Car Trekking' as a reference to his surname and I then built on this for the design of his site and added the tag line 'Driving lessons, but not as you know them' !

Dave operates throughout Exeter

113. In 2 Gear Instructor Training

Design 19 using a 'glass' button effect. There are several design changes from the base design showing how these can be taken and then adapted to suit. This site is purely for In2 Gear's instructor training so the whole content was changed.

IN2GEAR offer ADI training in the Midlands

112. Simon Says Pass

Design 19 with 'Glass' button effect which is a new free option plus the Show me / Tell me page.

Simon operates throughout Edinburgh & Livingston

111. Harveys School of Motoring

Design 17 with 'Scottish' theme. The site covers courses for learners and PDIs alike

Harveys School of motoring provide driving lessons in and around Paisley

110. Matley Driving School

Design 19 with gradient background and blue theme throughout.

Matley Driving School offer lessons in Stalybridge, Mottram, Glossop, Hadfield and surrounding areas.

109. Able 2 Drive School of Motoring

Design 12 using existing logo and own photos, a gallery and a Show me Tell me Page using the instructors own photos and text to personalise it to his car.

Able 2 Drive offer driving lessons in Derry.

108. Clover School of Motoring

Design 18 - Using a variation on the colour scheme and the logo from the exisitng roof top box.

Clover give driving lessons in Skegness and surrounding areas.

107. Peter Cowsill driving school

Design 12 - Peter already had some stationery and wanted the site to reflect the design which many of you may recognise?

Peter Cowsill provides lessons throughout South Manchester.

106. 'Drive with Jean'

Design 18 with a blue colour scheme.

'Drive with Jean' offer lessons throughout Wirral.

105. 'Learn N Pass'

Design 5 with a number of changes made to including additional pages.

Learn N Pass provide lessons in Thetford and Bury St Edmunds.

104. Learn to Drive Safely

Design 11 with a change to the colour scheme and using existing logo with additional pages and 'show me tell me' option

Learn to Drive Safely offers driving lessons in Harrow, Borehamwood and surrounding areas .

103. The Right Attitude

Design 15 with a gradient background incorporating an existing logo design.

The Right Attitude offers driving lessons in the Maidstone and Medway areas.

102. Manor School of Motoring

Design 15 with own photos of the car used for the 'Bounce effect. Denise also used a photo of herself in the 'About us' information plus a photo from under the bonnet of her car to personalise the 'Show me / tell me' section.

Manor SOM offer driving lessons in Batley. Brighouse, Cleckheaton, Liversedge, Mirfield, Morley, Wyke and all close surrounding areas.

101. Johnsons Driving School

Design 11 with a black and white colour scheme with gragient background.

Johnsons offer driving lessons in Epsom, Chessington, Surbiton, Banstead, Sutton, Mordon.

99. Driverite

Design 15 with a page adapted to accommodate the various courses on offer and with a downloadable 'show me tell me' page.

98. Learner Instructor Aids

To promote his book 'A Comprehensive Guide' (to becoming a DSA approved Driving Instructor), Aeneas MacRitchie opted for Design 17. PayPal payment buttons are placed throughout the site to enable visitors to place items in their basket whilst browsing through the site.

97. Arcadia School of Motoring

Design 11 with the logo re-drawn from an existing letterhead

Driving School in Basingstoke.

96. Colin Kentish

Design 16 with NEW 'Drive in' effect

Driving School in Tonbridge.

95. 1st Start Driving School

Design 15 with a white colour scheme based on the Mini Coopers and the 'Bounce' effect with 2 cars.

Driving School in Reading, Wokingham and Bracknell.

94. MK Towing Courses

Design 18 with a variation to the colour scheme. The content has had to be changed to suit this B+E specialist.

B+E Towing course specialist

93. Dormer Approved Driving

Design 14 using their own photos and sourced logos.

Driving instructor in Stirling

92. A Plus School of Motoring

Design 15 with variation to colour scheme.

Driving instructor in Bicester

91. Abbey School of Motoring

Design 12 with new buttons and their own images.

Driving instructor in Leicester

90. Robin Leslie School of Motoring

Design 14.

Driving instructor in Carlisle

89. NG9 Fleet Services

Design 17 with a metallic feel for this fleet training specialist.

Training solutions for company drivers

88. Ask 4 Steve

Design 14 with a gradient background.

Driving instructor in Nottingham and Derby

87. Driving Up Your Street

An adapted Design 11 with the Vauxhall (c'mon) puppets.

Driving instructor in Bolton

86. 5 Star Driver Training

Design 18 with our logo design, for this intensive course specialist.

Driving instructor in Stockport

85. Avon Driver Instructing

Design 14 using the original black but with red text instead of blue.

Driving instructor in Bristol

84. White Horse SOM

Design 15 with existing design elements.

Driving instructor in West Wiltshire

83. PWP Driving School

Design 11 with a change of colour scheme and Show Me Tell Me option.

Driving instructor in Sevenoaks

82. Peter Hamilton Driving School

Design 16 but mixing styles and elements from other sites.

Driving instructor in Maesteg and Bridgend

81. Chris Styles Driving School

Design 6 with a change of colour scheme.

Driving instructor in Lincolnshire

80. Bradley's School of Motoring

Design 5 using sourced photos.

Driving instructor in Reading

79. Myles Tomlinson Driver Training

Design 18

Driving instructor in Wensleydale

78. ADM Driving School

Design 12 but with additional pages including Show Me Tell Me option and using elements from their current marketing.

Driving instructor in Leicester

77. Drive-In

Design 15 with a gradient background effect and additional pages. Some design elements were taken from their existing flyers so that current marketing and website matched.

Driving instructor in Plymouth

76. Links Instructor Training

Design 7 has been used with changes to incorporate their instructor training and draggable photos replaced with mini info snippets.

Driving instructor in Aberdeen

75. Drive Lufbra

Design 14 using their own photo and a white and red colour scheme instead of the standard black and light blue.

Driving instructor in Loughborough

74. Lessonz Professional Driving Tuition

Design 14 has been used but using a colour overlay to create an anodised metallic effect.

Driving instructor in Tavistock

73. Hills ADI

Design 14 using their own photo and a white and red colour scheme instead of the standard black and light blue.

Driving instructor in Manchester

72. Top Gear Fife

Based on Design 11, and incorporating their existing logo.

Driving instructor in Fife

71. Dave Stewart School of Motoring

Design 15 but using the 'Fading outline' special effect.

Driving instructor in Stirling

70. AB Drive

Design 15 with a distinctive purple on yellow scheme.

Driving instructor in Heathfield

69. Swiftfleet

Design 17 has again proved a popular choice as it can contain a large number of pages without making the site cluttered

Driving School including fleet and corporate training in Wiltshire

68. Shaun's Driving

Design 11 with the 'Show me / Tell me' section added.

Driving instructor in Leigh

67. Go Learn to Drive

Design 12 with an additional page for information on the 3 instructors.

Driving instructor in Huddersfield

66. Simons Driving

Design 12. This design was altered to match Simons previous site colour scheme.

Driving instructor in Dunfirmline, Scotland

65. Emanuals Driving School

Design 11. This is another example of how a site can be made to look very different to the original design.

Driving instructor in South London

64. Sophies School of Motoring

Design 16. Sophie liked design 16 but wanted the colour scheme of Design 15 and also the ADI logo in the background. As ever, this can all be accomodated at no additional cost.

Driving instructor in Lancaster

62. MK Driver Experience

Design 15 . Following the success of his main site 'MK Driver Training' (see site No. 40 on this page), Dean wanted a site to help promote his 'Driving Experience' days for young drivers.

Young drivers experience days in Milton Keynes.

61. Simply Automatic

Design 17 has been used for this site with a change to the colour scheme. Martin was concerned about time scales involved as he had a yellow pages advert going to print in 3 days and needed a domain registered and e-mail address confirmed for the ad. The site went live a few hours after his initial contact!

Specialist Automatic & Disabled driving instructor in Cardiff, Swansea & Newport in South Wales

60. Learn ESM

Design 15 with some adjustments resulting in a clean, bright site that contains a good amount of information whilst not being too cluttered

Driving instructor in Herne Bay, Kent

59. Aspire SOM

Design 14 was used for this site but with 2 cars bouncing in instead of just one and additional pages to show off the cars. The montage of each the cars are quite eye catching. The font for the main title was downloaded specifically to match the signwriting on the car and this can be done with the majority of fonts if needed although you will need to know the font name.

Driving instructor in March & Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

58. Robert Palmer

Based on design 14 with a 'Show me / Tell me page plus an extra page for ADI training.

Flash animated buttons have also been added. Although I haven't put this as an 'official' option, little touches like this can be quoted for and added on request.

Driving instructor in Southport & Wigan

"Many thanks for the brilliant job done on my website"

57. Chris Callow

Based on design 11, Chris has added a Show me / Tell me section to his site as well as the 'fading outline' special effect.

Driving instructor in Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells & Paddock Wood

56. Drive to arrive

Using Design 17 and incorporating their existing logo and with the colour scheme changed to suuit.

Driving school in Cumbria

55. Ray's School Of Motoring

Design 12 - The colour scheme has been changed to suit Ray's car.

Mansfield based Driving instructor

54. Driven By You

Design 11 has been used here with it's original colour scheme.

Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Driving school

53. 1st Step - Leeds

Design 15 - As you will see, this site looks very different to the basic design. Peter wanted a site that was 'clean' looking but that was also going to be easy to add to in the future.

Leeds & surrounding towns

52. GO 2 L

Design 11 has been used for this Hull based driving school. Set up using photos sourced for the customer until he has a chance to sort his own. As always, changing these is free of charge.

Hull & surrounding towns

51. Loughborough Driving School

Design 12 again but this one is based on the original colour scheme.

Loughborough, Coalville, Ashby & surrounding towns

50. Technique Driving Tuition

Design 12 with a change to the colour scheme. This is a good example of how just changing the colour can transform a design.

Tyne & Wear, Hebburn, Jarrow, Sth Shields, Boldon, Pelaw and Gateshead

49. Horizon Driver Training

Carl approached me requiring a site with far more pages than any of the designs I had at the time so I built a new one which is now available as Design 17. This uses drop down navigation and can incorporate a large number of pages without being 'cramped' or difficult to navigate.

Bedfordshire & Cambridgeshire based driving school

48. Mark's School of Motoring

Design 16 using the original blue colour scheme but with a 'testimonials' section to replace the 'code of conduct' that is shown in the template.

Bristol based driving school

47. Bonds Driving School

Design 5 with a little twist!- as they use a new Vauxhal Corsa, this Paignton based driving school asked if it would be possible to incorporate the 'C'mon toys' from latest TV advert.

As ever, I try to accomodate and came up with a extra part to the 'Fade in' special effect on the home page.

"Thanks for the amazing service"

46. 1st Reliable School of Motoring

Design 6 - This is proving to be a popular design and 1st Reliable (Southend based driving School), have included the 'Show me / Tell me' section on their site.

"I found your service very professional and your after sales service second to none, and you are always ready to help sort out any problems should they occur.
I would highly recommend you and if anybody wishes to promote their company or services you are definitely the man to see.
Many thanks yet again.
John Worters."

45. Helen Short School of Motoring

Design 11 - Wirral based Driving School

44. EX-L.com (instructor training)

This is based on Design 6 but adapted to suit this Instructor training school.

"I am really pleased with the website it looks great"

43. Paul Stanley

Design 6 with additional page for 'cut down' Show me / Tell me section

"looks great!"

42. Bob Moore

Based on Design 15 with 'Show Me - Tell and the Bounce special effect included in the cost.

41. A6 School of Motoring

Design 11 with some images from previous site that Michael wanted to keep but re-optimised and made to fit in with the rest of sites images.

40. Mk Driver training

Based on design 14 Mk Driver training required more substantial changes to incorporate their Fleet, B+E, minibus and skid pan training.

"Really impressed with the site"

39. Driving Dynamix

Based on Design 11 incorporating existing logo and optional 'Flash' animated buttons.

"Thank you very much for your fast response and help and support."

38. Georges SOM

Design 13 using own photo. Font for banner has been matched to the logo on the car.

"Thanks very much - its looks pretty good"

37. Ceredigion School of Motoring

This site is based on Design 5 but has changed the white and 'metallic' background for a gradiented blue to white.

"love it !!"

36. John Upfold School of Motoring

Design 6 with changed colour scheme to coordinate with the car used.

"I am absolutely delighted with the finished product, it is excellent and I am really pleased with it.
I am sure it is going to make a real contribution towards developing my business and I would like to thank you for all of your advice and assistance and the efficient and speedy way that you dealt with it all.
you have produced a high quality site at a competitive rate and your knowledge and techniques have made it very simple and quick from the customers point of view.
I certainly will not hesitate to reccomend your excellent service to other local firms"

35. Freedom Driver Training

Design 13 using customers photo to show their actual car used and incorporating own logo.

"Just been online to see if website was there and it is great!"

34. JER School of Motoring

Design 12 used with own photos.

"it looks great, I'm very pleased with it"

33. Abbey Driver Training

Design 5 using own photo. This was taken on a drive way and the car was carefully removed from the background.

32. Pole Position School of Motoring

Design 5 again but looking very different with the use of own logo and colour scheme and of course, the chequered background.

"Just seen live site. Think it's great! Thanks for all your time and work. Really appreciate it, and will recommend without hesitancy."

31. Grade 6 - Ireland

Design 11 but in blue and white rather than Black and Grey. Changing colours on your site is usually a 'no-cost' option.

"Hi Darren, once again you have done a great job. I will be mentioning you to the Adi's at my local test centre to see if I can get you more customers. Many Thanks, William"

30. Cambrian Driver training

Design 11 but changed somewhat for LGV driver training. The photos are the customers own but the graphics were put on digitally based on drawings sent to me.

"site is looking very good, thanks very much for persevering with it"

29. Basing School of Motoring

Design 12 using stock photos sourced for the client.

28. JP SOM

Design 5 using a stock photo

27. Steve's SOM

Design 6 with the customers own photo which I then seperated from the original background.

26. Angus Driver Training

Design 7. This is shown with the customers own logo and you will notice how thishas been applied in such a way that it appears to have been 'painted' on to the metallic background (clever huh?!)

"Website looking great"

25. Emsworth Driver Training

Design 11 incorporating the clients logo. Originally I had sourced photos for the site but these were then changed, free of charge, when thier own photos were available.

"A friend of mine was looking at my ESM website (and commented what a great job you had done - cheers again Darren)"

24. Sinclair Driver Training

Design 4 but using a completely different colour scheme. The photo was sourced for the customer.

"I was very impressed with the revised draft website - fanatastic! and thanks for all the hard work and attention to detail."

23. 1st Step Driver Training

Design 1 with the customers own wording etc.

"Hi Darren, just a line to thank you for doing a fantastic job on my website. I must say that nothing was too much trouble for you and any small teething problems which we had you sorted out straight away .I must say it was an excellent job and at a very reasonable price.

Thanks again for everything"

22. B.o.B. Driving School

Design 3 but with additional pages to accomodate the schools B+E Trailer towing specialisation

"Thanks Darren, It looks great!"

21. Love 2 Drive

Design 5 but using 2 cars instead of just one. The photos were both provided individually by the customer and I then removed the cars from the backgrounds to enable them to be used together.

"Thanks for everything - the sites looking great thanks."

20. AHQ School of Motoring

Design 5 but with a 'static' car image instead of the 'bounce in' effect.

19. VR Driving

Design 16 with a gradient background and a 'Roll on' effect. This effect requires a photo taken from exactly the right angle and with the wheels pointing straight ahead. The car used here is actually a stock photo that I have added the graphics from a photo supplied by the customer.

18. Belt Up School of Motoring

Design 5 with logo I designed for the customer which is now used to put links on other sites. the car was a stock photo which I added the graphics to based on drawings e-mailed to me.

"I can't help smiling like a cheshire cat when looking at the site"

17. Stockport learners

Design 3 with customers own photos

16. FlexDrive School of Motoring

Design 6 Using the clients own photos which have been cropped to suit the page layout

"It looks really good!"

"Thanks, and thanks again for all your efforts. "

15. Maximum School of Motoring

Originally Maximum used Design 2 but recently changed to Design 11. Own photos are to be added soon.

14. Pass with Parsons

Design 6 with own car photo which has been removed fromm its background to allow for the 'Bounce' effect.

"Looks great"

13. Motoring & Safety

Design 5 with own photo

12. 1L of Driver

The original version of Design 1 was used for this site.

11. Woods School of Motoring

Design 5 with own car photo which was removed from the background. An additional page allows Woods to promote their ADI training courses.

"We approached Melgab with a view to improving our web design. They listened to what we had in mind and then put forward some ideas. Within 24 hours the site was done and speaks for itself. When we have asked to make some changes to text, these have been done almost instantly.

I can honestly say that I have no hesitation in recommending Melgab to any prospective website customer. The service, quality and attention to detail are second to none. But the best part is that this is all done on a shoestring! A 'Harrods' service for 'Happy shopper' money.

Simply don't look anywhere else. Fantastic"

10. BDS Driving School

This was a one off design i ade for BDS based on their flyers and incorporating their logo and photos. If you would like a 'one off' site designed for then please let me know.

9. MLW Driving School

Design 5 using a sourced photo and the 'trampoline' effect. The 'trampoline' and 'Bounce' effects are swappable which means that once you have chosen to have either of these effects, it costs no extra to swap to the other. i can even set these to be used at random if you like!

"The site looks great thanks."

8. McDrive School of Motoring

Design 5 with a static image supplied by the customer but cropped and framed for added effect.

7. Chris Lowe School of Motoring

Design 5 using 2 cars instead of one.

"Just a little note ref my fantastic web page you made!!"

6. Knights School of Motoring

Design 2 but with added audio. This has been set up so the visitor can turn it off if prefered.

5. Best 2 Learn School of Motoring

Design 2 with client logo and PayPal

4. Right Turn School of Motoring

Design 2 with clients own wording

3. Kevin Parker School of Motoring

Design 2 with a changed section to accomodate Kevins specialist B+E trailer training courses.

2. Mike Short School of Motoring

Design 2 with logo I made based on clients drawings.

1. Les Law School of Motoring

This is one of my very first sites using the original version of Design 2 for this Telford based driving school.