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The Stratford Chess Club website has been developed to meet the requirements of the club's various activities and utilising our in-house developed website management system ease.

Underpinning the clean looking site design is a compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD implementation of code. This favours some of the more advance features of the website currently being developed within the member’s section using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) based technologies. The intention here is towards a richer user interface which will make updating and maintaining the clubs administrative records a simple affair.

What we did:

• Web design & development
• XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD implementation of code
• Website management system ease
• Members area
• Fixtures database

Camryn Designs has over 10 years experience of working in a broad range of business sectors for a diverse range of clients and pride themselves on successful project delivery to the highest possible standard.

What we did:

• Web design
• CSS page authoring and web page design layout
• Online data management tool planned

Attic Bee is a vibrant new company whose mission is to both design and manufacture contemporary jewellery at an affordable price. Using sterling silver, semi-precious stones and Swarovski crystal as the primary materials ensure that quality is never compromised.

Based in Stratford upon Avon, the design team at Attic Bee provide a collection continually moving with the current catwalk trends.

Here we were challenged to deliver a clean looking stylish and uncluttered website which displays the jewellery in a way that reveals the true quality of the pieces. The result is a stunningly beautifully website that is a joy to navigate and a breeze to maintain.

What we did :

• comprehensive corporate design and online identity
• custom built shop front and shopping cart solution
• bespoke CMS component
• in-house developed shop database components
• e-commere integration with Paypal merchant services
• searchable product database
• client area

The extraordinary Sally is still going strong, cooking up a storm, enjoying life to the full and trying to raise as much awareness and funds for the British Heart Foundation as she can!

Sally Bee's first cookbook entitled 'The Secret Ingredient' contains gorgeously tasty, easy and healthy recipes that will feed the mind, body and soul. 120 full colour glossy pages filled with beautiful photography of mouth-watering recipes that will tempt even the most novice cook. With light-hearted and entertaining snippets of healthy food information and anecdotes relating to food contributed by a host of celebrities. Each recipe follows a 'mood theme'..

Here we were challenged to deliver a website that was compact and simple and as tasty as one of Sally's dishes. Sally is more than happy with the visual feast we delivered to the table.

What we did :

• comprehensive online identity
• bespoke client CMS component

Right Person aupair aims to make the process of finding and matching au pairs, nannies, carers, domestic workers, housekeepers, mother’s helps to families as easy and efficient as possible.

Working from the ground up we created a complete online identity and advanced CMS tool set for client administration, User management and B2B components.

What we did:

• subscription engine and integrated payment component
• advanced user data collection web forms
• user account management tool set
• real time Google language translation integration
• scalable language variant content pages governed by bespoke CMS
• B2B tool set for agency client account management
• back end profile matching with automated email broadcasting
• advanced search web forms
• searchable news database
• advanced power list component for dynamic list building on member profiles
• RSS matching profile feeds tailored to individual accounts
• user hot list component
• CSS page authoring and web page design layout

Friends of Bridgetown School aim is to encourage the ongoing participation of parents of the school to plan and organise a range of activities which should be sociable, fun and serve the purpose of raising money to provide financial support to the school to enhance the well-being and education of the children

What we did:

• bespoke CMS for nominated administrator management
• events diary
• dynamic fundraising barometer
• searchable news database
• RSS news feed
• CSS page authoring and web page design layout
• high accessibility and usability design

The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) is the driving force behind sustainable economic growth and regeneration in the East of England. "Our task is to improve the region's economic performance and ensure the East of England remains one of the UK's top performing regions."

Stiff Designs' concept work for the redesign of the EEDA website was a number of designs submitted working with Pixelworks' studio in house design team. Pixelwork went on to develop the 'About EEDA' information site.

GTR is the world's leading international trade finance magazine, read by and featuring the market's key banks, credit insurers, corporate, traders, law firms, brokers and consultants. GTR provides timely and in-depth news, leads and analysis on the global emerging markets trade finance, export finance and risk markets.

The site was developed with the task of delivering two primary business components this was later extended to include additional resources.

We designed and deployed relational databases tasked to manage the On-line magazine edition of the GTReview publication. The digital version of the magazine was made available via a subscription engine paid for using a bespoke real time credit card payment processing system.

Additionally we built systems that allowed users to book conferences and events organised by the client. The conference events are booked and paid for on-line using our bespoke payment solution.

We went on to built the on-line version of the GTR Directory a hugely successful trade, commodity and export finance resource which now has over 230 entries. We similarly built the GTReview Industry News section featuring over 7576 searchable news items within the active and archived stories section.

What we did:

• subscription engine and integrated payment component
• advanced user data collection web forms
• user account management
• searchable news database
• bespoke CMS administration and business tools
• real time account activity feedback

Bioprogress (now Meldex International) is a specialty pharmaceutical and healthcare business that uses its XGEL™ polymer technology to develop and enhance its pharmaceutical and healthcare products and those of its partners.

Stiff Design was instrumental in developing bespoke website administration systems, including: File and Media content management; product record management; active and archive news; news announcement broadcasting; real time LSE & Nasdaq stock exchange ticker;

The website design, film and multimedia and CSS page authoring was produced by Pixelwork

What we did:

• news sign-up registration and activation functionality
• news database
• bespoke administration tools
• real-time LSE & Nasdaq stock exchange ticker

SOZO is a new and unique biopharmaceutical conference which brings together Japanese pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with their European counterparts.

The site features a secure web form for conference delegate registration and payment and a fully featured content management system for administration. Built using CSS in favour of traditional page content layout using tables. The site makes good use of CSS for print version pages and for cross platform compatibility.

What we did:

• advanced user data collection web forms
• bespoke CMS administration and business tools
• CSS page design

Sugarrays supplies boxing equipment nationwide. This ecommerce website uses XCart shopping cart solution with ePDQ Credit Card payment integration. What we did:

• XCart shopping cart
• ePDQ Credit Card payment integration

Here we produced a series of concept design visuals for a new website. We also worked with Pixelwork to implemented a data capturing system that extracts contact records from the clients MySQL database and converts the data into an XML document on-the-fly.

We created a system using PHP programming that extracted the contact record from the MySQL database. The data was converted into an formatted XML document which was automatically attached and emailed to the back office. The document containing insurance applicants details could then be imported  into the in-house system using a built-in import engine. What we did:

• XML data capturing system

Greengrid is an exciting long-term project to encourage the development of a network of open spaces and green links throughout Thames Gateway South Essex.

The underpinning of the website allows easy disseminating of local project information by project champions using bespoke CMS tools.

Greengrid has gone on to be a winner of the coveted Macromedia Site of the Day Award and has been further designed and brand development by Pixelwork

What we did:

• fully featured administration CMS
• projects database design and deployment
• project work access authentication
• CSS implementation of projects artwork
• dynamic page construction

Stiff Design has undertaken numerous mini sites for event and conference registration. The format is usually a series of web forms that collect registrants' personal/company details and delegate event booking information. The client would have a custom built administration area which allows them to manage delegate entries.