Examples of work we have done.

Livingstone Brown

Jan 2010 - Current

LivingStone Brown is a group of immigration solicitors based in Glasgow. They required an update to their existing site as well as a CMS to update the content.

The site was developed on Radiant with custom extensions to handle paypal payments. Image uploads are handled by a custom extension which stores the files on AMAZON S3. The final product is deployed and is currently running on Heroku.

Further work is still ongoing to improve its ranking using SEO and Google Adwords.

HiredHelp IE

November 2009 - Current

HiredHelp is a website produced in association with Hermes Technologies IE. It is a site designed to showcase and search for service providers such as babysitters and gardeners.

The app was developed in Rails 2.3.5 with custom code developed to integrate with the Relaex payments gateway using ActiveMerchant; search module for searching the providers using Xapian; custom Rake task to deal with subscription renewal as a cron job; caching using cache_fu and memcached; ability to add each profile link to Twitter. Additional work was undertaken to deploy the final product using Capistrano and Passenger.

South East Forum UK

October 2009

South East Forum UK is a website produced in association with 55 Degrees. My input was to aid in the development of a Rails based CMS system and advanced functionality such as google maps geo-location; newsletter subscription; AJAX events and RSS Feeds; file uploads to Amazon S3.

Additional work included further development of a Rails google map plugin to support google map pins dragging and ajax updates of locations; also front-end work in terms of HTML/CSS development and javascript.

CuePoint

April 2009 - Present

CuePoint is our flagship product. It is a video encoding platform written entirely in Rails/Ruby which allows the end user to upload their own video files to be transformed into an FLV ready for display on any webpage. It relies on the AMAZON S3 service to store the finished encoded file which means it is completely fail-safe and available anywhere. It supports most current video formats and the resolutions for the finished product can be configured.

Application developers can use this platform to develop their own youtube-esque application. It even has an API to integrate with other applications. Please contact us directly for more information on this product.

Recent changes made to the app include the addition of GOD to monitor the mongrels and daemon processes; mailers to notify users when videos has been uploaded and encoded; and ability to push encoded videos onto youtube.

A microsite with further details and a working app is on the way. Watch this space or contact us for more information.

SlurpIt

March 2008 - Present

Slurpit is a blog creation and management tool built in MERB. It allows the user to create and edit blog posts. It uses the tinymce plugin to allow for user content input in valid HTML; tagging; categorization; rss feed generation; and a unique url link for each user's blog.

It is currently undergoing re-development to make it MERB 1.0 ready as well as further optimisation to the code base in terms of scaling for multiple users. There are also plans to move the database into the cloud using something like AMAZON SimpleDB.

The initial version is open source and can be found here.

PasteIt

March 2008 - Present

PasteIt is a Pastie clone which allows users to paste snippets of text into a textarea. The content can be accessed via a permalink or downloaded in its original format. It uses Pygmentizer for syntax highlighting which recognizes more than a 100 different computer languages. A complete snippet can be embedded within an external webpage through javascript calls.The application is currently undergoing a revamp and will be made public soon.

The initial version is open source and can be found here.

Orchard Percussion Studio UK

May 2008 - Present

Orchard Percussion Studio required a complete re-design of their old website to capture new visitors. My input was to create a brand new design and layout which is minimal and re-arranging vital pieces of information to improve usability for the end-users.

Since the launch of the new website, it has been ranked number 1 across several search engines and receiving a total of over 800 unique hits.

Friends Of The Kings Park UK

September 2008 - Present

Friends of The Kings Park required a website to showcase the charity organization and to attract new members to the group. My input was to design a user-friendly website with eye-catching graphics and improve upon the user navigation.

The other part of the project involved setting keywords and re-arranging site content to improve the site rankings on google. Recently a Twitter account has been created for the group and a Twitter widget added to the site. Another area of development is the incorporation of a CMS to allow core members of the group to update the web content.

Since the re-launch of the new website, its rankings on the major search engines have improved as well as the number of queries to the group via the website.

Italy Abroad site re-design

April 2009

ItalyAbroad required a complete site re-design. The key is to improve the site's usability and create a brand identity. The solution was to utilize their existing color scheme and increase the overall width of the site to incorporate the disparate elements. Information Architecture techniques are also applied to re-arrange and present vital snippets of information such as discounts to draw the users in.

Glenmarnock Cycling Club Poster Design

September 2009

Poster design for Glenmarnock Cycling Club. The club wanted to improve upon the look-and-feel of their poster design to reflect the latest changes in their website. The poster was re-designed with usability in mind by presenting the information in a clear and concise manner.