Fantastic technical knowledge and skill AND a really decent person. Has helped, guided and advised me on many things web and personal.
Always there, even when he’s very busy (except when he’s busy launching a WOW concept;)
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Triworks
Many thanks for all the hard work you all put into the TriWorks website.
It is excellent in looks and performance – we are getting a lot of very complimentary feedback on it from both potential customers and suppliers.
Thanks again from all of us.
Arthouse Films
Client: Revolver Entertainment
Brief: Design and develop a promotional website.
Working under the direction of Revolver Entertainment, produced a website promoting Arthouse Film DVD releases.
Top 10 tips for buying domain names
Years ago you simply needed to come up with a name and a good product and away you go.
Of course, times change, new marketing methods come into play and now the whole ball game has evolved into a tediously long search for that holy grail of company name, twitter ID, LinkedIn, Facebook vanity URLs and many more IDs and user names spread across a whole plethora of destinations.
(check this list for a snippet of alternative places you might also need to be).
The most important, in terms of brand awareness is, of course the Company name but that’s where the ‘fun’ begins – next step would be the domain name – hopefully, this list will give you a good starting point to help you secure the ultimate in company branding!
1, Make a list of 15 possible names in the order that you would want them
2, Prepare alternative extensions in case the .com isn’t available
3, If the .com has been taken check the site out. If you’re selling baby clothes and the .com is a heavy metal/ punk band crossover appreciation site do you want the 2 to be confused?
4, If the .com is on a holding page contact the owner to see if they want to sell
5, NEVER check the domain(s) until you are ready to buy. Some domain reg companies scrape domain searches and snap up the popular ones
6, If you can, grab the .com .net or .org (if relevant). Next would be your country specific – .co.uk
7, Think out of the box and go for catchy domains wombl.es, get.in, local.tv
8, Don’t go for extensions like .ws, .tc, uk.com etc unless they are the last remains that you simply must have
9, Avoid names-with-dashes-in-them
10, Keep your domain as relevant and as short as possible
Ambient Property
Point and Stare – 1st class designers and developers!
We sourced Point and Stare to help me with my website design when we seemed to have hit a brick wall with our previous designers. They were able to find a solution and come up with a website that is user friendly and helped me facilitate what we needed on the site.
Point and Stare understood we had a limited budget after having already spent money elsewhere. They also sourced articles of interest and images relevant to the business.
We are now extremely proud of the finished website.
Ad Hominem
Point and Stare listened to our requirements and came up with a package that was both affordable and creative. They were efficient and flexible and any amendments (and there were lots!) were dealt with professionally and quickly.We are absolutely thrilled with the end result, it matches our identity entirely and we are very proud of our brand new website*.”
*2008
Zimki
Client: Zimki
Brief: Design and build full on and offline branding including, presentation stand, business cards, website, t-shirts and other promotional goods.
Disney Channel
Client: The Disney Channel
Brief: Design and develop a fun, colourful website
Brought in-house, the task was to work with the newly online Disney Channel to design and develop a general website incorporating live feeds, games, competitions, message boards and live chat.
The project was commissioned in 1999 and therefore the work doesn’t exist online anymore.
Dunhill – Intranet
Client: Dunhill – Intranet
Brief: Design and develop a company wide intranet
Dunhill had just started to get online and needed a company wide intranet built.
The site was built entirely in Flash and was applauded for its ease of use throughout the company.
Sky MovieMax – Cut Short
Client: Sky MovieMax – Cut Short
Brief: Design and develop a simple website
This commission, in 1999 was for Sky MovieMax, in association with Canon, to promote the upcoming Short Film competition with the 20 best films broadcast on Sky MovieMax.
Various banner ads were created to accompany the website press campaign.
The project was commissioned in 1999 and therefore the work doesn’t exist online anymore.