Archive for the ‘Private’ Category

SimmondsStewart blog

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Business view: SimmondsStewart turned 4 and decided to make a few changes to the web presence. In particular, they wanted a new blog to enable useful commentry and conversation in the technology and early stage company sector, and a better way of managing their site content.

Technical view: Light design refresh, installation of WordPress, redeployment of website, addition of blog, transfer of content, testing and URL cutover.

SimmondsStewart

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Business view: SimmondsStewart – a new, boutique legal firm with great expertise – came to us wanting a website that would give them market presence, would instantly communicate their professionalism, and be maintainable.

Technical view: Deployment of Adobe Contribute for simple content management, design collaboration with hairyLemon , and design integration.

API for Xero

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Business view: Xero, an online accounting system, asked us to contribute development effort to getting improved bank integration created.

Technical view: API creation (based on Xero’s specification) for producing and validating  financial transaction files across multiple banking systems. Handover for integration.

Winefinder for Vinacom

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Business view: Vinacom came to us with huge wine expertise and a great concept. It required a robust failure-safe architecture and the ablity to scale rapidly once their pilot scheme became a nationwide rollout. Vinacom wanted a way to get useful wine information into the hands of supermarket shoppers – to in-store kiosks built by NV Interactive – and from us, a way to create, collect, synchronise, manage and send that information from one central point.

Technical view: Collaborative systems architecture with NV Interactive. Establishment of a centralised SQL Server database with admin screens built automatically using our custom-built tool. Provision for stock list aggregation, wine information creation and maintenance of synchronized (SQLite) databases on remote Adobe Flex Winefinder kiosks in supermarkets. Web services connect data synchronisation calls.

Rockgas for Contact Energy

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Business view: Contact Energy required a private e-commerce-enabled portal for the use of customers purchasing gas from Rockgas, and for the administration of the orders. We collaborated with 360 Media to support VIS in establishing the functional requirements, developing the information architecture, creating the design, and building the site as designed.

Technical view: Specification, design and information architecture collaboration, with HTML/CSS build from PNG layered compositions.

VIS redesign

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Business view: Very Impressive Software make accounting-related products. They needed a complete overhaul of their website content and design, and a way of maintaining the content easily.

Technical view: Content Management using WordPress + design integration.  Included Information Architecture (with 360), content writing, and pre-design content analysis using Sketch, our own SaaS web application built for that purpose.

ComplyWith Upgrade

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Business view: Legal compliance tool for Government departments for ComplyWith. We provided design and web development support to a partner company as they upgraded their product.

Technical view: Design & web enablement upgrade to .NET-based ComplyWith, used by government departments to simplify their legal compliance management.

The Moment

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Business View: The Moment required a site to help establish its brand, and to provide resources for people wanting to learn about effective communication. After getting a rather steep quote elsewhere, Bernie was quite pleased when we told him that the cost should be reasonable after all.

Technical View: Content Management (WordPress) integration with design work created and cut by 360 Media.