The Tile Association

The Tile Association represents the wall and floor tile industry in the UK. Their website serves existing members, potential members and the general tile-buying public.

This website includes a powerful and comprehensive directory service of members. Each member is able to have a link to their own website, a colour logo and a short write up as well as full contact details. Every member can be contacted by email through the site without revealing the email address to spammer harvesters, and the form itself is shielded behind powerful spam filters. The directory also provides information about where a tile range can be sourced, which is a crucial piece of information for tile fitters and installers.

The site includes many features useful to a membership organisation, such as a facility for members press releases as well as TTA ones to be uploaded, and an invaluable Technical Help section filled with answers and downloads. There are a series of colourful Galleries which provide ideas and inspirations for tiled surfaces of all kinds, as well as an opportunity for members to showcase their products.

The site has a powerful suite of content management tools which enables the TTA team to updated it every week with a variety of content including press releases, news stories, trade articles and events. The team can also upload fresh data for the membership database themselves at any time giving the Directory a fast, responsive quality of information management. The site is fully searchable using the Skill Zone engine and unusually, the search includes every entry in the Membership Directories.

The site recently benefitted by the addition of a suite of new features commissioned by TTA to add value to their membership package. Visitors to the site can search for the nearest tile fitter or tile showroom by postcode or town name, and are provided with a live feed Google map with links to the relevant Directory entry of the nearest members. This generates potential customers for the members, and is also a useful service for the website visitors who have an assurance of quality with every link.

Skill Zone also built a comprehensive new Members Section for the site, which has full content management tools to enable TTA to upload documents, events, accounts and other essential or interesting information as well as improving communications with the membership.

"Thank you for your excellent work ... we are delighted with the website and so are the members!"

Lesley Reid
TTA Management

Visit the web site

www.tiles.org.uk