Our Portfolio
McSherry Brown
The brief: To design and build a new website for McSherry Brown, a well-regarded search and selection agency who specialise in international placements of senior technical officers. As this was their first website, it was important to create a strong online brand that would stand out from the competition and carry across design-wise to their off-line activities. It was also important that the website was authoritative yet had a fresh and informal look and feel.
Our solution: We designed a bright and colourful look, using abstract shapes, fresh colours and clear icons, giving the site a unique and memorable personality. We also designed and built an RSS news page with a single-line feed on the home page, to add fresh content and give users a reason to return.
Die Hards
The brief: An extension to the main campaign site for Desperados, which we built earlier in the year. This was a microsite to be used as an online destination for various offline activities, with video and images from promotional activities. The site to act as a staging post for potential viral campaigns and to be separated (in terms of content and access to events) from the main Desperados website.
Our solution: A fully animated flash-based website with its own bespoke media player, which lets users upload and play video and images. It also has various competition pages with data-capture facilities and auto-export of data, and a downloads page with a number of rich internet applications for users to download to their desktops, like the Desperados Clock...
Advice UK
The brief: To design and build a bespoke website for the UK charity recruitment market, to be used by Advice UK (a leading advice charity). This brief called for content management, multi-level login access for various administrators, sophisticated search functions and automated email notification of new vacancies. It also had to be fully accessible for the public sector, to allow for people with disabilities.
Our solution: A clean and accessible design, with strong colour contrasts and clear use of space, to assist users with visual impairments. We included a very sophisticated search engine that searches and filters results across various factors. The site's content is managed via our own CMS (content management system) to allow Advice UK to implement changes to images and copy as required and has the facility to auto-send HTML branded emails (which we designed and built) to registered applicants whenever a new position is posted.
Desperados Beer
The brief: To build an animated website for the UK launch of Desperados Beer (part of the Heineken Group). It had to feature complicated animated sequences; appeal to the target audience; give them a reason to visit on a regular basis; incorporate data capture mechanisms; and be sufficiently interesting for users to recommend it to friends.
Our solution: We designed and created complex, animated images in flash, built a bespoke image library from scratch and created competition pages with data capture. Best of all, although the site is highly animated, it still loads in seconds!
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