Some older websites we have been responsible for:

National Late Breaks

This is a holiday home website. "It is your one stop UK Holiday Property Directory. Whatever you are looking for, whether its self-catering, camping and caravanning, bed and breakfast, apartments, parks and hotels they are all featured on these pages."

This project was a little bit different as the current owners of the site inherited a working website based on properties in Devon and Cornwall. The site did not look anything like they wanted it to and didn't really provide the searches and facilities that they wanted to go national. So they were looking for a complete facelift to change the appearance of the site and provide maximum search engine optimisation opportunities, plus an upgrade to the database web application running in the background. They also wanted to maintain the site themselves after it was upgraded as they had some familiarity with HTML and Dreamweaver so they needed the code restructured to make it easy for them to do this. The system is PHP and the database MySQL.

national late breaks, Barkway, Hertfordshire

RNM Supplies

RNM Supplies are a new online stationery (or is it stationary!) and office supplies company. This is a competitive business and they are using a backend system to manage the supply of products so Nick and Nathan needed a set of search engine friendly web pages to draw in the custom. I explained how to make the best of the search engines and pointed out that the competitive market is going to make it difficult to get high rankings and that google is unlikely to give a new site the rankings it deserves for at least 6 months in the face of such competition. With this in mind the website was launched in March 2007, it has around 15 front end pages that have been search engine optimised and a Blog. The Blog is used primarily to allow Nick and Nathan to add their own pages to the site in the shape of news items and informative articles. I also did some branding of the back end products system.

"Pleased with how it is going" Nick Miles, RNM Supplies

RNM Supplies - online stationery and office supplies company, Welwyn, Hertfordshire

AAPT - Alex Adams Personal Trainer

Alex Adams offers a Personal Trainer Service. This includes gym training, home or office training and outdoor training. Alex takes a holistic approach and will look at diet and nutrition as well as posture.

Alex had a go at designing his own website but could not get the professional look he was after. So he approached us with his draft web sirte designs to see what we could do. Alex had a colour scheme and a look in mind - "Black, Electric blue and Silver, Modern and sleek (metalics etc)" - and had developed his own logo. I must admit black web pages pages was a new departure for us and getting a workable blue was a bit troublesome but I think it has worked out well.

"I'm glad I employed Epsilis to design my web site as they made the process really simple for me. All aspects were completed very quickly and provided a comprehensive web design that I am really happy with. Far better than I could have done myself."
Alex Adams - aapt

AAPT Alex Adams - Personal Trainer, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Drakes Group

Drakes are the UK’s leading independent provider of civil enforcement and debt recovery services to the public and private sector. Established for over 70 years, Drakes has transformed itself from a certificated bailiffs company to become a modern professional enforcement agency, which meets clients’ present and anticipated needs. Drakes enviable reputation is built on the company’s experience of working with local authorities, magistrates’ courts, central government agencies, and more than 500 private sector clients.

We designed, built and regularly maintain their current website on their behalf. The requirement was to produce a professional website, that worked effectively in the search engines and met accessibility requirements. The site includes an online Warrant Generator and an online Repossession Order Generator to allow Drakes' clients to get quick responses to their needs. Their website now ranks on page one of Google for "certified bailiffs". We also created template web pages for Drakes to use within their intranet.

"Thanks ... the new warrant generator looks great."
Adele Harrow, The Drakes Group

Drakes Group, Waltham Abbey, Essex

Incredit

Incredit is a registered charity providing help and assistance to a variety of individuals seeking to develop a business. Their client groups cover a broad sweep of those facing the biggest barriers to success in enterprise: women, young people (16-30), people from black and minority ethnic communities, people with disabilities, social enterprises, offenders and ex-offenders.

They had a corporate brand in mind already - the rather clever use of the rounded squares - which runs through everything they print. So we designed the web site around this motif and we are rather pleased with the end result. We designed the website throughout using CSS to provide maximum accessibility. The website incorporates a private area which houses an extensively searchable database of relevant service providers.

"Thank you for enhancing this website in a very short space of time "
Kate Belinis, Head of Operations, Incredit

Incredit Limited, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

The Bridgman Group

The Bridgman Group is the parent company of Drakes Commercial Services, Drakes Proactive Enforcement, Drakes National Enforcement Agency, Eurotrust Services and Bridgman Communications. They offer a broad range of services including civil enforcement, consumer and commercial debt collection and mobile data communications.

We designed, built and regularly maintain their current website. The requirement was to produce a professional website that did justice to their new image to complement a new marketing brochure.

"Looks great, thanks for all your hard work"
Joseph Tirelli, Marketing Manager, The Bridgman Group

The Bridgman Group, Waltham Abbey, Essex

Eurotrust Services

Eurotrust Services is a new company formed as part of The Bridgman Group.

The group had a number of websites developed internally and Joseph Tirelli, Marketing Manager for the Bridgman Group felt it was now time for a start for the group and was looking for a more effective web presence.

This was our first website for this group. We had to work to a tight deadline to ensure the new site was ready to coincide with the launch of the new company - Eurotrust Services company.

As well as providing a clear, professional website to make an impact for the launch, secure services were added to the website to allow for the issue and tracking of online warrants.

Since this project we have redeveloped all the websites of the Bridgman Group.

EuroTrust Services, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire

Mapac Group Ltd

The Mapac Group Ltd sell an extensive range of education based products such as bags and school clothes with printed logos, as well as a ranges of art products, music products and printed carrier bags. They sell their products throughout the world.

The brief was for a new website with a new contemporary look. The web site is full e-commerce based, selling their various product ranges to the public, schools and retailers in the various regions of the world in 3 currencies. The project included the creation of an extensive purpose built product database covering Mapac's complex product range. The web site has member login facilities to allow retailers and organisation such as schools access to bulk pricing deals and printed logo requirements.

The Mapac Group, Watford, Hertfordshire

Bishop Creighton House

Bishop Creighton House Settlement wanted a cleanly presented straightforward site to support their charitable activities at the community centre and out in the Hammersmith and Fulham area.

To aid accessibility the web site is designed using style sheets for content positioning rather than using tables, all text content resizes with the visitors browser text size settings and the site pages scale to fit the browser window.

All pages of the web site are manageable through our epecentre content management software package.

"I'm really happy to provide a testimonial: I found working with you very helpful and supportive. As you know, we didn't have much IT expertise in-house, and it was vital to have someone who talked us through it in a way we could easily understand. I especially appreciated the support and advice around things like accessibility, and legal issues like the privacy policy. Your response to my hundreds of queries was fast and helpful, and I also appreciated your willingness to make the hundreds of small changes as we went through the process! Thanks for all your help"
Karen Osborn, Director, Bishop Creighton House, London

Bishops Creighton House, London

Finance 4 U

Finance4u is a Mortgage Broker specialising in Self Certification Mortgages and Adverse Credit Mortgages. They provide a mortgage and loans service with no broker fees. They specialise in Mortgages for the Self Employed and others unable to prove income for reasons of poor credit history or through inability to prove income are traditionally unable to obtain a mortgage.

Site owner Richard Lodge had spent quite a lot of money on having the site designed by a web design company and even more money with a specialist search engine optimisation company but had saw no improvement in search engine performance. He asked us to review his site to see if there was any obvious reason why this was the case. We showed Richard how search engine optimisation and web design are closely linked and cannot be done sensibly as 2 separate activities. We took over the site maintenance and revamped the HTML coding and the site content to appeal to the visitors and search engines more effectively. We have also assisted Richard with his Google Adwords pay per click campaign. After a couple of months the site started to show significant improvements in the search engine rankings in a very competitive market - this is a difficult market so we had to go for searches using Hertfordshire to get good results. (Try "self cert mortgages hertfordshire" or "self employed mortgages hertfordshire" in Google.) We did a regular search engine review and optimisation project to improve the search engine ratings further.

Site owner Richard Lodge commented "I have tried the new adwords campaign, we were top of the class and I am pleased with the response"

Finance4u is the trading name of Adams Mortgages, Welwyn, Hertfordshire

Prospects Services Ltd

Prospects Education and Work Based Learning [Training] Directory for London Boroughs. This was a new web site with a contemporary but clean look for the teen age market for Prospects in association with Connexions and the Central London Learning and Skills Council.

The web site provided many ways to search the extensive Directory database which is fully manageable via a module of our epecentre content management software.

To aid accessibility the web site was designed using CSS style sheets for content positioning, all text content resizes with the visitors browser text size settings and the web site pages scale to fit the browser window.

"Epsilis have a professional and flexible approach to their business. Our project had a demanding brief in terms of functionality and deadline. Epsilis kept us informed at every stage to ensure that the project evolved to meet all our requirements.
Epsilis inspired confidence at every stage through their ability to accurately understand and interpret our needs. Their proactive approach in the application of the latest technologies ensured our site met the Web accessibility requirements of our audience."
Stefan Passchier, Web Site Manager, Prospects Services Ltd, Orpington, Kent

Prospects Careers Information Unit, Orpington, Kent

Results for Business

www.resultsforbusiness.co.uk. Results for Business wanted a refresh of their site to provide easy access to information for the Business Club and represent their accountancy practice Stephens & Co.

Particular attention was given to the structure and navigation on the site. The company noticed an immediate increase in the frequency of enquiries, as soon as the new version of the site went live.

This is a good example of how a review and upgrade of your website can benefit your business.

Stephens & Co, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Sterry Communications

We were responsible for the design and construction of 3 versions of the Sterry Communications website over 6 years up to the takeover of the company.

The last version was a complete overhaul of the look, structure and content of the web site. Included in the site upgrade was an implementation of the W3C accessibility guidelines. The web site featured Sterry's product ranges based on supplier and on target markets. New features include news management and management of customer support materials in the form of FAQ's and product manual downloads.

Sterry Communications, Welwyn, Hertfordshire and Bredbury, Manchester

Fast Tomato

Fast Tomato - the new education and careers web service from The Morrisby Organisation. Morrisby are leaders in psychometric assessments for career advice and guidance and already offer the highly popular UKcoursefinder.com site. This is an extensive search mechanism and guide to Higher Education in the UK. Now comes Fast Tomato - a service designed for schools and FE Colleges throughout the UK.

Fast Tomato will help guide students from the age of 14 upwards, through their school options, further and higher education choices and career decisions. The Service provides personalised help on education and career choices geared to the individual student's preferences and abilities. There are facilities for schools to tailor the system to the options and courses they offer. Careers advisers also have access to on-line student summaries that allow them to monitor and assist the research and choices of each of their students. If you have teenage children they may be using this web site at school.

Our brief was to create the design and build the initial version of this innovative new schools service. The brief was wide ranging. As well as dealing with the extensive applications needed to support all the services, it was essential to provide a web site that would appeal to students of various ages [from early teens upwards] as well as their teachers. This was achieved using a range of original artwork for characters that appear on the site and the concept of using "skins" on the site.

Simply put, the user is able to select the appearance of the web site they prefer from a range of "skins". This is the first time, that we are aware of, that this concept has been implemented in such a way onto a web site. Initially only a small number of "skins" will be available but the structure is in place for adding more as required.

The Morrisby Organisation, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

Morrisby Organisation

Morrisby are leaders in psychometric assessments for career advice and guidance.

www.morrisby.com includes extensive career advice information and multiple search mechanisms to help select careers or further education. The requirement was for a new website design based around a new brochure with a very visual home page and business like internal pages. All the website content is manageable using the standard edition of our epecentre Content Management software

The Morrisby Organisation, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

UK Coursefinder

UKcoursefinder.com is an extensive search mechanism and guide to Higher Education in the UK from The Morrisby Organisation.

We have upgraded the functionality of the site.

The Morrisby Organisation, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

Coventry University Motorsport

covunimotorsport.com is a sponsored site for the formula student team Coventry University motorsport. Formula student is a yearly University Motorsport event by the IMechE and SAE

We provided our services for free as some of our employees studied at the university and took part in the event in 2000. More...

Coventry University Motorsport

Earl Electronics

Earl Electronics deal in electronic components.
We have developed a back office system for them to manage all their actual and virtual stock, allowing them to quicky generate email quotations from the system. The system was developed based on Microsoft.NET technology and Microsoft SQL Server.

The application was placed on a dedicated server within an intranet, to alllow easy access for all employees via a standard browser.

The system has simplified stock management and significantly streamlined the quotes process.

Earl Electronics, Sandy, Bedfordshire

North Herts District Council

A partnership between North Herts District Council, Hertfordshire Constabulary and Hertfordshire County Council, working to develop a co-ordinated approach to crime and disorder issues.

This was the second version of this web site provided by Epsilis. All the pages on the web site were client manageable. The web site has been designed to provide a modern clean look but provide maximum accessibility including a text only version of every page.

North Herts District Council, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire

Multicultural Books

www.multiculturalbooks.co.uk
A specialist book retailer who supplier and promote multicultural books in Britain. They supply schools and government institutions.

A web site featuring a searchable catalogue of books.

Multicultural Books, Greenford, Middlesex

Letchworth Ladies FC

Letchworth Ladies were a well established and friendly team with a squad covering a range of ages. They played in Division Two of the Eastern Region.

This was a straight-forward site advertising the team and reporting on their matches. All the site content is manageable using the standard edition of our epecentre Content Management software.

Letchworth Ladies Football Club, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire

Tarifica

Tarifica - This is a consultancy web site to advertise and sell information based products such as reports, studies, newsletters. Products can be bought and downloaded online. The client is able to manage the newsscroller, home page text, banner advertising, news stories and press releases pages. Incorporated into the web site is a regular newsletter. The construction of the newsletter, management of the subscriptions and distribution of the newsletter via email is all managed on the web site.

Tarifica, London

UCI Expo Conference Sites

This is a conference and exhibition series support site. There are 4 events in the annual calendar covered by the site, incorporating UCI, CWM and Colocation.

We developed all the year 2000 and 2001 event sites.

Features include:

• Online Registration with links to the clients event management systems
• Client management of the content including:
  • conference agenda
  • exhibition floorplan
  • pressroom
  • advertising banners
  • news scroller
  • promotions and special pricing in the registrations process
• Private area for people who have registered for the event
• Search of all the other event attendees and facility to email them blindly without giving away their email address
• Facilities to download conference presentations and other event based literature. All this area is also managed by the client.

PBI Media, London

UCI Awards Ceremony Site

Unified-comms awards - For 2 years running we provided a web site to support this Award. The web site allowed people to nominate companies/products/people for awards. The judges had their own private area to examine the nominations and make their decision. The Awards, the sponsors and most of the copy on the web site was maintained from within the website management area. Tables at the awards ceremony are also bookable through the web site. We also provided a similar web site for the Billing Awards.

The Phillips Group, London

The Phillips Group Corporate Intranet

On login an Outlook style "summary" of latest news/issues/bulletins is displayed. Each department has it's own "internal web site" and can manage their own content. Standard company processes can be done on the site using forms, databases and email - information can be distributed automatically. The Intranet is a reference library providing useful and up to date information to help people do their jobs. Different levels of administration exist for different staff levels/roles. Staff manage their own profiles. Internal Job Vacancies are advertised. All the intranet facilities are maintained through the management area provided.

The Phillips Group, London

TPG Training

TPG training - We provided 2 incarnations of this full e-commerce training courses site. It has extensive management functions to allow the client to update most of the site content themselves including all of the course and event details, news scroller, banner ads, FAQ, self test questions and answers, whats new page and links page. It includes extensive discussions group facilities which they can also manage, a private members area that includes course slide shows, a site search facility and site statistics.

TPG Training, London

Unified-comms Magazine

Unified-comms.com - This is a web site to support a published magazine. It contains extracts from the printed magazine, a sister newsletter (called an Alert) published by email in plain text or HTML format. The client has control over the creation of the Alert, and the distribution and management of the subscribers. The magazine extracts, news scroller, advertising banners, advertising rates links and contacts are all done within the site management area by the client. There is also an archive search facility.

A similar web site was provided for Billing Magazine.

The PBI Media, London

Telecoms Deal Report

This is an industry news web site based around a regular newsletter. Most of the content is intended to be behind a membership area based on a subscription. All the news and the subscription is managed by the client along with banners, contacts, advertising rates. There is an archive search facility.

PBI Media, London

European Telecom Directory

This web site is a database of suppliers in the Telecoms industry with a subscription system. The public are allowed a very limited search of the database. Subscribers get extensive access to search, refine and download the data. The suppliers database and the subscribers system is all managed by the client along with banner ads, advertising rates, contacts and the links.

PBI Media, London

Various Conference Sites

Other conference support sites were provided for the Competitive Communications Forces event and the Global Pricing Congress events in 2001.

Within them there is a client managed conference agenda and pressroom. People register and can pay for the event online and the registration process is linked in to the clients back office event management system. The Business Partner Programme BPP is a private area for people who have registered for the event. It contains a search of all the other event attendees and facility to email them blindly without giving away their email address, together with facilities to download conference presentations and other event based literature. All this area is also managed by the client along with site advertising banners.

Phillips Events - Conferences and Events listing site

This is an events calendar web site advertising the full range of conferences and exhibitions run by the client. The client is able to manage all the event details, the event navigation, the calendar, the contacts and the banners themselves.

The Phillips Group, London