Web
Websites
Creating websites for our clients is where it all began for us and this is still a big chunk of the work we do every day. We can design and develop a website for you, big or small, on time and on budget.
A Content Management System (CMS) is a website that includes tools for you to update it's content. This is an investment that empowers you to keep your site up-to-date and build a relationship with your audience online, whether they are customers, members, fans or the whole wide world.
We've worked with over a dozen different CMSs in our time. Experiencing the strengths and weaknesses of these led us to develop our own CMS, Gluttonberg. Our goal with Gluttonberg is a CMS that works for both of us. Easy for you to use, without a crap load of bells and whistles getting in your way. Easy for us to develop with, meaning better sites built quicker. And, Gluttonberg is designed to be suitable for all sites great and small.
User experience
Good design is way more than a just a pretty interface. User experience is at the core of interactive design and it addresses usefulness, efficiency, ease of use and other experiential aspects of design. Great user experience design comes through careful consideration of numerous factors, including business and user goals, audience, competitors and content.
Our 3 Ds methodology encompasses these considerations in a tried and tested framework focussed on creating excellent user experiences.
Software Development
If you want to help your staff be more productive, if you want to engage your audience in new and more sticky ways, or if you have a great idea for an online business, custom application development is what you need. The tailored approach to building software is surprisingly cost-effective and an investment that can be very profitable. We can help you conceptualise, build and manage your app, whether online, on iphone and ipad or on Facebook.
Interactives
These are the engaging parts of a website: animations that explain complex ideas simply, calculators for your mortgage and carbon footprint, games, data visualisations and everything else that grabs a user's attention, entertains them or helps them solve a problem.
Everything interactive used to be built with Flash and we were there building it. But the online landscape is changing. These days Flash doesn't really cut it: it doesn't work on iPhones for one thing. Javascript is the new Flash and so, we're here building with it.
Social Media
These days every other person on Twitter seems to be social media strategist and all of them have a secret of how your business can get rich quick online. Well here's the secret: get real. You have to have real conversations. You have to show the real people behind your business.
Social media is possibly something that you're familiar with in your personal life. In a professional environment your approach to Facebook, Twitter, etc needs to be similar; personal but at the same time, professional. You need guidelines for who can represent your company online and how. You need a plan for when something goes wrong and you (or your boss at least) will probably want to be able to measure the benefit that you're getting from social media.
We can advise you on how to approach social media professionally in setup, strategy and execution. We can also help you with social media development and integration, from a Like button and list of tweets on your site to a custom Facebook application.
Most importantly, we can help you be real online.
Mailing Lists
While social media gets all the cool points, email is still a highly effective way to engage with your audience. A regular mailout discussing what's going on in your organisation keeps you in the front of people's minds and is another valuable channel for conversation.
We can work with you to define a winning strategy for your email communications and to design HTML email templates that engage your audience and are simple for you to regularly create and send.
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