Web Site Design and Search Engine Optimisation Portfolio - Older Websites
Some we have designed and built from scratch, some we have taken over and upgraded, some we maintain regularly.
Website Design For The WOW Awards
www.thewowawards.com. The WOW! Awards recognise those companies that go further and deliver awesome service.
I have had a long running relationship with Derek Williams the man behind The WowAwards! I maintained all his websites for many years until it reached the point where he needed his own dedicated Web Master. So I helped Derek recruit a suitable candidate and helped train and guide him to take over the onward development of The WowAwards numerous web related projects.
"Hi Michael. - I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU! - Thank you for all your help with our websites. Since you and your team have taken over the management of our websites there has been a significant improvement in every aspect. Visually, the sites are much more attractive. In terms of content, they look much more professional. And, most importantly, in terms of our rankings with the search engines we have achieved a fantastic improvement! Whilst I appreciate your technical ability what I also really like is your down-to-earth business advice. Everything that you have recommended has been both practical and effective. And finally, you're such nice people to work with."
Derek Williams - The WOW! Awards
The WOW! Awards, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Website Design For NaCTSO London
www.nactso.gov.uk. The National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) is a police unit co-located with the Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure (CPNI). They offer specialist advice regarding the security of explosives and pre-cursor chemicals (including fertilisers), pathogens and toxins, radiological sources and other toxic chemicals. They also provide guidance in relation to business continuity, designing out vehicle borne terrorism, the protection of crowded places and reducing opportunities for terrorism through environmental design.
There was a voice mail message for me - it said "This is Graham Smith, I work for The National Counter Terrorism Security Office within MI5. Don't worry, I would like to talk to you about your website design services ...." Well you don't get a phone call like that everyday!
Graham had a very strict set of guidelines that the website needed to follow, he wanted a professional design, following all the web standards but he was looking for the job to be done quickly with the minimum of fuss (rather than go through the normal processes associated with a Government based site. The website also had to be approved, as you can imagine, by a variety of key people. The website was up and running within 1 month.
I maintained the site monthly for a few years then in 2010 the Government machine caught up and brought the site "in-house" understandably in view of the subject of the site!
NaCTSO - The National Counter Terrorism Security Office, London
Website Designed For The Digital Office Henlow, Beds
www.thedigitaloffice.co.uk. The Digital Office wanted their website upgraded to improve results in the search engines.
We completely redesigned the website, incorporating the new company logo, removing the frames structure and enhancing the quality of the content on the website. We also ran a 6 month search engine optimisation project and assisted with their Google Adwords pay per click campaign. After a couple of months the site has started to show significant improvements in the search engine rankings and now after the campaign has stopped the site is still ranking highly as its position is now well established - try "digital office equipment beds" or "digital office equipment herts" in google.
"We were introduced to Epsilis, as a company that could increase potential
customers visiting our web site, instead of having to contemplate spending a fortune on Marketing
the site. We had become disillusioned with the internet and its place in our industry and even
if we needed a web site at all. With the minimum of fuss and very little input from ourselves,
we have seen a dramatic increase in visits to the new revised site over the first 3 months and
have instantly made significant, additional, high value sales from these visits. Have a look
at the site and see what you think."
Paul Stafford, Director, The Digital Office, Henlow, Bedfordshire
The Digital Office, Henlow, Bedfordshire
Website Design For Redsky Solutions Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Redsky Solutions are Accountants, Business Advisors and Tax Consultants in Hertfordshire with offices in Weston, Nr Hitchin and Stevenage. They provide a full range of accounting, bookkeeping, auditing, financial management, VAT, tax (business tax, employment tax and personal tax), payroll, management accounts and corporate finance advice services.
Paul Weller wanted a "down to business" website design that worked well in the search engine rankings with phrases like "accountants in herts" or "accountants in hertfordshire" or "business advisors hertfordshire" or "tax advisors in hertfordshire" being key targets in google. After many years of successfully building the colateral of www.resultsforbusiness.co.uk in the search engines Paul decided it was time to take his marketing strategy to the next level and put all his marketing in the hands of a specialist Accountancy communications agency who are able to keep up with the latest happenings in the accountancy and tax world. I now look after other websites in Pauls portfolio.
"Looks excellent - great (search engine) results"
Paul Weller, Practice Partner, Redsky Solutions Ltd
Redsky Solutions, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Website Design For Marston Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire
"Drakes Group Limited and John Marston & Co combined to form Marston Group Limited. Market leaders in both distress warrant and high court writ enforcement, the enlarged Group significantly enhances the breadth and scale of services offered to the expanded client base."
We designed and built websites for The Drakes Group for many years until recently with a change of marketing management.
"Looks great ... well done! "
Adele Harrow, Marketing, Marston Group Limited
Marston Group Limited, Waltham Abbey, Essex
Website Designed For CNCF Rugby Tours
www.cncf-rugbytours.com. CNCF (Christina Noble Children's Foundation) Rugby Tours is a charity organisation that exists to provide a unique, once in a lifetime rugby experience whilst raising money for the desperate plight of disadvantaged and orphaned children in Vietnam and Mongolia. The teams are made up of invited world class rugby players and they play at the annual Dubai Rugby 7's (Sevens) in November each year.
I designed a colourful web site designed with the teams shirt colours in mind, with lots of different images of famous rugby stars used in the header and footer of each page as well as within each page content plus some movies. All publicity for this annual event is now been taken over by an events management company.
"I am extremely grateful to Michael at Epsilis for his sterling work on the site over the
last few years - there is no doubt part of the success of the CNCF team has been down to a
slick website (with great photos!!)"
Graham Smith
CNCF (Christina Noble Children's Foundation) Rugby Tours, Dubai
Website Design For Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre Stevenage, Herts
The Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre (HBIC) assists companies through established support networks and well developed industrial relationships. Epsilis worked to a tight deadline collaborating with the Zen Design company to ensure the new web site was ready to coincide with the launch of the HBIC Initiative by Lord Sainsbury.
As well as providing a clear, professional website to make an impact for the launch, content management was implemented into the web site to allow the HBIC staff to update news, events and text on all pages on the web site. The HBIC organisation has undergone a change in management company and is now under the WENTA banner.
"Thanks Michael for all your help with the website"
Helen Ashby, Communications Executive, Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre
HBIC, Business and Technology Centre, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Website Design For Galileo Masters Stevenage, Herts
Galileo Masters UK SatNav Challenge is an industry lead programme aimed at entrepreneurs, academics, researchers and corporates and offers them all an opportunity to submit their ideas and concepts on how they could take advantage of the latest developments in SATELLITE NAVIGATION
Galileo Masters in the UK was run by HBIC - Herts Business Incubation Centre in Stevenage - The HBIC organisation has undergone a change in management company and the Galileo Masters project is now run from Germany.
" A great help as always."
Adam Tucker, Communications Executive, Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre , Stevenage Hertfordshire
Galileo Masters for HBIC, Business and Technology Centre, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Website Design For GB Personal Training London
www.gbpersonaltraining.com is a new enterprise for Greg Brookes. Greg is a Personal Training who provides a mobile Holistic Personal Trainer service in Hampstead, London. Greg says "Many people fail because they don’t address the body as a whole - GB Personal Training is different from most personal training companyies, I offer a complete holistic approach that enables you to truly reach your potential by addressing all of the key factors necessary for a fit and healthy life: Nutritional advice based on your metabolic type, Functional fitness training for daily life, Flexibility and postural realignment and Stress management. I will take you through these facets of health and fitness, at a pace that suits you and in a way that will accomplish your goals in the shortest time possible."
Greg wanted a small website he could make small amendments to himself, with a simple layout, large images and blue as the feature colour. He also wanted good search engine performance so we advised him on how search engines worked, the importance of keywords and phrases and drafting a suitable amount of text (at least 250 words) for each of his web pages. Greg created a list of keywords and drafted the website copy much as you see it on the website and with only minor amendments made by us to emphasise keywords. Greg also selected most of the photos used as the basis of the images you see on the website from an online source which is a good way of getting high quality photos cheaply for use on your website if you cannot provide them yourself.
The website design was straightforward HTML with all the presentation done using CSS to provide a fast accessible website that is search engine friendly. I organised the domain name and hosting arrangement on Greg's behalf. The whole project took just 3 weeks.
The key to successful search rankings in very competitive areas is lots of unique content that is changing often - Greg has taken this on board and after a good degree of success with his site decided that he wanted to take it to the next level with a blog based website. This is now what he has done.
" .... thank you Michael, I largely owe my business to your
advice and help"
Greg Brookes - GB Personal Trainer
GB Personal Training, Hampstead, London
North Herts CENTRE For Voluntary Service Letchworth, Herts
www.nhcvs.co.uk. North Herts Centre for Voluntary Service (NHCVS) are a Charity who run various projects in the North Herts area. They provide advice on volunteering and funding, run the Furniture Link community project in Letchworth, run the Respite Playshemes in Stevenage, Hitchin and Letchworth amongst many other worthy projects.
Jacquie Hime, Director of NHCVS came to me after some bad experiences with trying to get their website done very cheaply. The website was incomplete and did not allow for accessibility requirements. There were also problems with the hosting and domain set up.
I redesigned and completely recoded the web pages to allow for accessibility requirements and to be more user friendly. I resolved the issues with the hosting and domains and the site was soon up and running. I have recently trained Jacquie and other NHCVS staff to maintain the site themselves which they are now actively doing.
"I am really impressed, I think it now looks really good. I will be showing the trustees on Monday just to see if there is anything they would like to add/comment on. Thank you so much for sorting everything out as I am aware that you had several mountains to climb to get us to this stage." Jacquie Hime Executive Director - North Herts CVS
North Herts Council For Voluntary Service, Letchworth, Hertfordshire
Website Design For xpertex Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
www.xpertex.co.uk Xpertex provide ad-hoc IP Telephony, Network, Security and Infrastructure Services providing professional technical consultancy resources to the I.T sector
The core of their business is LAN/MAN/WAN infrastructure, Security, Convergence and Systems Infrastructure. Xpertex is comprised of a number of fully qualified and experienced IT consultants and technicians that provide ad-hoc technical resources to the IT sector. They provide on-demand design implementation and support services to major equipment manufacturers, hardware and software distributors, resellers and end users for both short-term assignments and long-term projects.
Joel Sweeney, Consultant for Xpertex, knew that search engine optimisation was the overriding requirement for the Xpertex website and that was his main reason for choosing us to develop his new company site. We therefore concentrated our efforts on getting the content right - we coached Joel on how to create content that appealed to people and was effective in search engines. Joel already had a corporate brand and we created a straight-forward search engine friendly design that echoes that brand around the content Joel produced.
Xpertex, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Website Design For Allen Mezzanines Letchworth, Hertfordshire
www.allenmezzanines.co.uk. Allen Mezzanines build tailor made mezzanine floors and raised platforms for commercial offices and industrial work places, warehouses, factories and homes.
Nigel Allen approached me as his previous web design company had let him down. He had a new site designed but it had not been completed and was also having trouble sorting out his domains and web space. I took a look at the design and it was clear that search engine optimisation, which was one of Nigels key requirements, did not play any part in the redesign but some fancy flash animations did. Nigel and I decided it was best to start again from first principles, look at search engine target keywords and phrases, build some content from these, then build a search engine friendly design to suit. The site also features a lot of pictures of the raised mezzanine floors that Allen Mezzanines have built.
"We have already had some nice enquiries from the site, so it is definitely working. Have also had some compliments about the site. Thanks for your help."
Nigel Allen
Allen Mezzanines - Mezzanine Floors, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
Website Design For Park Side Leisure Hatfield, Hertfordshire
www.parksideleisure.co.uk Parkside Leisure Company – products developed by caravaners for Caravaners. They supply a range of goods for the leisure industry focused around 12 Volt systems, including the industry leading TV DVD combo unit and the Wavebox, the worlds first portable microwave.
This project was a little different to most in that Matt Savill of SeViC Systems had just bought a new website for his Parkside Leisure Company but was very unhappy with what he had so he asked me if I could help him sort it out. The site is an online shop based on a template system with a built in Content Management System (CMS) to edit content, products and customers. Matt wanted the look of the site changed and search engine optimisation features added. Only limited improvements to the background online shop system were feasible but it was possible to radically alter the look of the site, make some SEO improvements and provide some guidance on how best to use the CMS to update the pages and products to improve search engine rankings.
ParkSide Leisure (SeViC), Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Website Design For Telecoms Pricing
www.telecomspricing.com "Tariff Consultancy Limited research, analyse and benchmark telephony, broadband and mobile prices ... focused on pricing and tariff research, analysis and consultancy across mobile operator businesses internationally. The website is the resource centre for information, data, analysis, reports, studies, consultancy, research, symposia and events related to fixed and mobile pricing."
Margrit Session, Managing Director, wanted a new website developed that she could update regularly herself having been frustrated by waiting for her site to be updated by her previous web designers. The website uses the open source DRUPAL content management system as its base, includes a simple implementation of the UBERCART ecommerce shopping software and search engine optimisation modules (try "mobile pricing reports" or "Telecoms Pricing Tariffs Information" or "telecoms pricing information" or "mobile pricing reports"). The look of website is a highly customised.
"Fantastic ... I can update the site easily now ... it even deals with tables!"
Margrit Sessions, Managing Director, Tariff Consultancy Limited
Tariff Consultancy Limited, London
Website Design For Steve Calder Cambridge
Steve Calder is a freelance journalist and his normal website designer was not familiar with designing websites for good search engine rankings. He wanted a clean, crisp, search engine friendly website to showcase his work that could be maintained by his normal web designer. Steve is a wordsmith but did not have experience with writing for search engines - so the first thing we discussed was the differences between writing text for marketing and search engines. From that Steve then decided on the keywords he wished to target then he wrote his text content. I designed a new web site template to suit the brief. Since then the site has been maintained and adapted by Steve's normal web designer to good effect.
Steve Calder - Journalist from Cambridge
Bottomless Coffee Pot Productions - Molly's Story
Hertfordshire’s PODs, perform Molly’s Story, 29th September, at The Queen Mother Theatre, Hitchin. All proceeds going to the charity CHILDREN IN CRISIS. Molly’s Story interweaves in song the heartbreak of dying love and blossoming of new with a compelling evening of dance, music, monologue and popular musical songs.
A simple charitable site with some simple graphics to advertise this local charity event.
Bottomless Coffee Pot Productions, Baldock, Hertfordshire
New Property Purchasers Directory Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire
www.newpropertypurchasersdirectory.co.uk. This is a new and unique venture. The New Property Purchasers Directory is a place to allow individual property purchasers to band together to benefit from group discounts on new properties. You remain the sole purchaser of your property but get a bulk purchase discount as others are buying property at the sametime as you. Very clever idea!
Colin Cleaver, whose inspiration this website is, came to us in a bit of a jam. He had the website created by another company but had run into some problems. The website has been put together using a number of software packages but the site had been hacked before it went live. The software developer was no longer available to help and the hosting company had disabled the service as a result of the hacking. Colin came to us to see if we could salvage his website.
New Property Purchasers Directory has now been restored and is now at least as good as it was, using the original software. We redesigned the front end web pages to be much more in tune with the look of the backend application.
New Property Purchasers Directory, Waltham Cross, Herts
Website Design For CMO Translations
CMO Translations was founded by Carla Mengual Oltra in 2004 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
CMO Translations provides English, German, Spanish and Catalan translation services.
They do General and Specialised Document Translation – small documents including: birth certificate translation, food menu translation, medical translation, etc…to large specialised texts such as brochure translation, deeds translation, manuals translation, etc...
CMO Translations also provides a Proof Reading and Editing service and a Website translation service.
Carla had a particular look in mind for her company's website - she wanted a youthful modern design. It was to be mainly white featuring either blue or green (green worked out best as blue did not work as well as the design was to include flags), large photos provided by Carla, tabbed navigation and a simple logo using the company name. The website design was to be search engine friendly.
Carla provided all the text (I have no idea if the Spanish pages are correct - Carla is the expert here - I just put the words in place.)
The website was designed using HTML and CSS, the tab navigation was a challenge but it is all achieved using CSS (no javascript or tables here in a bid to remain as accessible as possible). The website was designed and created from nothing in under 3 weeks. As for search engines try "english to spanish language translation in hamburg" in google.
CMO Translations, Hamburg, Germany
National Late Breaks
www.nationallatebreaks.co.uk. 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
Website Design For Rapidata Services
www.rapidataservices.com. Rapidata Services Plc was established in February 1997 to process and collect Direct Debit payments on behalf of third parties. They provide their clients with an outsourced solution for the processing and collection of periodic payments, which increases efficiency and reduces their clients costs.
Epsilis redesigned their website based on their rebranded printwork (featuring some excellent photos using the apple theme). The website was designed including Disability Accessibility best practices and we feel it has a really smart look.
"Just a quick email to thank you for all your help in getting our new website setup. It took a while but has been worth the wait!"
Scott Gray, Rapiddata
Rapidata Services, Crawley, West Sussex
RNM Supplies
www.rnmsupplies.co.uk 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
www.aapt.co.uk. 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.
The requirement was to produce a professional website, that worked effectively in the search engines and met accessibility requirements. The site included an online Warrant Generator and an online Repossession Order Generator to allow Drakes' clients to get quick responses to their needs. 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 incorporated 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.
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.
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
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.
"Since updating our site with Epsilis, we have had a large increase in visitors. This is mostly due to the increased content and regular news updates that can be included through the content management management software. We have recently received a large order from a enquiry generated from the site who researched our company from the website before contacting us. Working with Epsilis to complete the web site has been easy."
Andrew Parmenter, Marketing Manager, Sterry Communications, Welwyn, Hertfordshire and Bredbury, Manchester
Sterry Communications, Welwyn, Hertfordshire and Bredbury, Manchester
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
"We wanted a site that was attractive but business-like appearance and allows users uncomplicated access to the many pages of information we provide. Other important factors were that the new site had to be available within a fixed time frame and once up and running, it should be readily accessible and quick to update. Epsilis were selected as the supplier because they were able to meet all the criteria. From a basic outline of these needs, Epsilis quickly understood our requirements and offered a series of design proposals. This included advice on the structure of the site to ensure easy navigation and compatibility with a range of browsers.
The Content Management Consol has proved a rapid and effective system for managing the site. It allows us to make our own day-to-day changes by editing text, changing and inserting tables and images, as required. Routine control of the site remains with us but at the same time, there is telephone support as and when needed. Throughout the project, the Epsilis team have been readily available to ensure the project was on time and to our complete satisfaction. Within days of the website going live, we were receiving compliments on the design, the speed and of course, the content."
David Gould, The Morrisby Organisation, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
The Morrisby Organisation, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
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
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.
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
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
