Useful Web Sites...

Portfolios...

The Incredibly Useful Company (TIUCL) has an ever expanding portfolio. We have built web enabled solutions for many small businesses and a few large corporations. Always listening, and using our skills and industry knowledge to realise the brief to our clients satisfaction.

The selection of completed tasks below gives a flavour of the range of work we have done in the past. As you should see, we do the whole thing from start to finish including web site, graphic design and sound design. Please use the navigation links beneath the section titles to navigate between sections.

Whether you need training and support, a full corporate identity, an e-commerce enabled web site or a bespoke sound design, contact The Incredibly Useful Company and let us show you just how useful we can be!

Website Design...

Web design screenshot of Music in Memoriam web 
					site

Music in Memoriam: A new site was required to service a new market for an established company. It was important to the client that the site be constructed to enhance organic search engine rankings and provide access to information to allow prospective clients to ascertain the full range of the company's offerings. The site interface had to be clean, simple and uncluttered and built to the latest W3C coding standards.

Web design screenshot of the Cranbourne Amateur Dramatic Society's web 
					site

Cranbourne Amateur Dramatic Society: On a very limited budget, as many societies are, CADS engaged TIUCL to re-work their existing web site. The site was rebuilt to W3C Standards to provide a consitent look between browsers and easy indexing by search engines. The news and shows sections functionality was totally reworked and a new emailable contact form and Google map were added to the Contact Us page.

As the budget did not stretch to a CMS, TIUCL provided HTML and web publishing training to enable a CADS member to carry out the updates.

Web design screenshot of Matt Bryant, Personal Trainer's web 
					site

Matt Bryant, Personal Trainer: The site was to promote Matt's personal training business. This needed to communicate the philosophy and style that would differentiate Matt Bryant Personal Training from other personal training web sites. The site therefore concentrates on describing the "Personal Feel to Personal Training" strap line and clearly indicates Matt's geographic area of operations, price list, personal history and contact details.

Web design screenshot of Mike Young Associates web 
					site

Mike Young Associates: This is an example of a small, personal online presence. The brief was for a clear and simple, standards based web site to both promote skills and services and provide background information for prospective clients.

A CMS was not required in this instance.

Web design screenshot of Opera Interludes web 
					site

Opera Interludes: A new site was required to replace a site that had been in existance for some time. It was important to maintain the current search engine rankings and provide access to information to allow prospective clients to ascertain the full range of the company's offerings. The site includes some wonderful photographs and quotes provided by the client, plus a high quality video presentation which was converted to Flash Video for transmission over the web.

Web design screenshot of Willow Court web site

Willow Court, Jedburgh: The web site for the 5 star bed and breakfast establishment in the town of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. TIUCL was approached to provide a simple, yet clear represention of the property, it's facilities and surrounding area. Included in the brief were a method of contacting the owners and an innovative "How to find us" section as the property can be difficult to locate.

A CMS was not required on this occasion so updates are carried out, as and when required at very reasonable rates.

Web Application Development...

Web design screenshot of the Dial An Exchange web 
					site

Dial An Exchange Ltd.: In 2002, TIUCL was commissioned by Dial An Exchange (DAE) to take over the rebuilding of their new web site from another company. The original site was converted from Cold Fusion to ASP technology.

TIUCL worked in conjunction with DAE's existing back office development team from NJW Software Ltd. to produce a highly functional system that took a great load off the DAE Call Centre staff, improved response times, took automated payments via a new payment gateway interface and improved the site's manageability with a content management system.

TIUCL oversaw the implementation of the new system and arranged hosting with a third party provider. DAE's system has over 20,000 members, operates 24hrs a day and is based on SQL Server 2000.

In 2010, TIUCL re-wrote the whole site in the latest asp.net V4 code, adding a new bespoke multi-lingual CMS with work flow, allowing translators to work directly in the CMS. The site design was also changed to conform to DAELive.com branding and W3C Standards.

Web design screenshot of the Dial An Exchange web 
					site

Dial An Exchange Pty. Ltd.:In 2005 TIUCL was contactedy by Dial An Exchanges Australian partners to convert their static web site into a fully interactive booking engine and link all four DAE sites world wide.

This work was completed and handed back to their local Australian developers for ongoing maintenance and development. This work brought huge financial benefits to all the DAE companies as their users could then search and book in real time using a multitude of payment gateways integrated by TIUCL.

Web design screenshot of the Dial An Exchange web 
					site

Super Holiday Rentals Ltd.: Built as a standards based, search engine friendly live "Look and Book" site. Integrated SEO techniques advised by Big Mouth Media. The site relies on it's SQL Server database for all it's contents, controlled by a custom built CMS.

Web design screenshot of the Dial An Exchange web
					site

Argo Holidays Ltd.: Having been pleased with our work on their Medlife Holidays and Argo Holidays sites, Argo commissioned TIUCL to build a similarly extensive site to market their "Jetlife" brand for long haul holidays.

The site searches and inventory are controlled from a bespoke Content Management System (CMS) which also allows acces to customer survey results and control of emergency announcements and affiliate netoworks.

The Jetlife site makes extensive use of Flash movies controlled via CMS to set the background photos and floating texts and is written in XHTML and CSS2.

Extra modules were added after initial production to allow control and monitoring of affiliation agreements with various well known affiliate networks such as travelsupermarket.com. These include web services to enable affiliates to upload the main CMS brochure type content for use on their intro sites.

Unfortunately Argo Holidays closed down recently so we can only show you a screenshot of the home page.

Graphic Design...

TNT

TNT: A restyling of a newsletter with minimal investment. Simply by making more space available and use of contemporary typefaces and pictures, it conveys the future to their business, looking forward rather than back.

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Virga

Virga:A small budget-client that requires straight to the point information and no nonense design. Although the client is in the medical sector, the design tries to keep things bright and happy with a colourful approach.

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European Business Summit

European Business Summit: A design that encompasses the whole range of printed material, from badges and invitations to the full programme as well as a directory guide of all attendees. As a recurring event the basis need to be similar but still different enough to differentiate the new event from the previous one.

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