Our portfolio
See also our testimonials page and UK client locations map.
Small businesses and community organisations in Pocklington and Yorkshire |
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| Dianne's Die-cuts www.diannesdiecuts.co.uk |
Based in West Yorkshire, Dianne turned her hobby making die-cut shapes into a full-time craft business. By 2008 she was getting more and more enquiries asking her if she had a website, so she approached us through one of her customers. We worked with Dianne to create a simple online shop which reflects her friendly personal way of working, and enthusiasm for her products.
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| Burnby Hall Gardens www.burnbyhallgardens.com |
We are delighted to have been given the opportunity to work with Stewart's Burnby Hall Gardens and Museum in the re-launch of their website. The new website is backed by
a content management system which allows staff to maintain details of events and activities in the Gardens, as well as an expanding directory of the National Collection of hardy water lilies for which Burnby Hall Gardens is famous.
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| Paynes Turkeys www.paynesturkeys.co.uk |
Paynes Turkeys is a long-established supplier of traditional Christmas turkeys, based near Market Weighton in East Yorkshire. We designed and developed their website, along with their turkey farm management system.
Key management tasks can be carried out using a handheld wireless Pocket PC.
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| Yorkshire Arable Marketing www.yorkshirearablemarketing.co.uk |
Yorkshire Arable Marketing, based near Pocklington, Yorkshire, provides a range of agri-chemical services to farms across Yorkshire and the North East of England.
We develop and support their sales and stock management system, which operates as an intranet website application with remote VPN and GPRS access.
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| L.W. Printfinishers Ltd www.lwprint.co.uk |
Based in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, L.W. Printfinishers provide a range of manufacturing services for the curtain and fabric industries. We have developed an intranet website application for sales and order processing, which supports the on-site management as well as allowing customers to track the progress of their orders.
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| Market Weighton Drainage Board www.marketweighton-idb.org |
Market Weighton Drainage Board is the Internal Drainage Board responsible for land drainage and nature conservation in the area between the Yorkshire Wolds and the Humber Estuary. Their website uses our community publishing system which allows the Board to manage and update the website contents.
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| Lumley Associates www.lumleyassociates.co.uk |
Lumley Associates, based in Pocklington, Yorkshire, provide consultancy services in the health, social care and legal sectors. We worked with them to design a website and content management system for barristers practising in the courts of the North Eastern Circuit.
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| Breckenbrough School www.breckenbrough.org.uk |
Breckenbrough School in North Yorkshire gives a high level of academic education and support to boys with behavioural, emotional, and social difficulties. We undertook this project with the specific
aim of increasing their online presence. We used a combination of the existing website content, coupled with Google sitemaps and an optimised HTML framework, to
improve the search engine rankings - and the site now appears on the first page of many search engines for relevant keywords. Staff at the school are able to create news items, articles, and upload photos using a content management system.
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| Pocklington Town Council www.pocklington.gov.uk |
The Pocklington Town Council website was re-launched in June 2006, and is based on the Amarsys Community Publishing system.
A separate content management system allows the Town Clerk and Councillors to publish news items, articles and photographs, and publicise local events.
A directory of local services and businesses is also part of the system.
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| Cawthorne Parish Council www.cawthorne.org.uk |
We provided a small community website and content management system for Cawthorne, a rural parish in South Yorkshire.
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| Millington Limousins www.millingtonlimousins.co.uk |
Millington Grange Estate is an innovative farm business based near Pocklington, Yorkshire. They commissioned us to provide the content management system for a website to publicise their herd of pedigree Limousin cattle.
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| Pocklington Montessori School www.montessoriandmore.co.uk |
Like many organisations, Pocklington Montessori School had an attractive website - but it required considerable technical skills to maintain it, and it provided limited information about traffic to the site.
We developed a new website framework for the school, faithfully copying the look and feel of the old website, but adding a content management system which allows staff to keep the website up to date, and monitor the hits and search engine referrals.
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| Pomona Publications www.northernpomona.co.uk |
We have supplied the online shop system and content management system for Pomona Publications, a specialist publisher of limited edition illustrated books and botanical prints.
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| Tanager Birding www.tanagerbirding.com |
Tanager Birding are a small holiday business based in Pocklington, Yorkshire, and offering birding tours to Central and South America. Our small business website design solution provided a quick and easy starting point for establishing their online presence.
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| Black Yak www.blackyak.co.uk |
We provided website hosting facilities for this local fair-trade clothing company.
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| Anderson Grain Marketing |
Anderson Grain Marketing is a local grain merchant business, providing a personal service to customers throughout Yorkshire. We designed their internal contract management system.
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UK Retail and Supply Chain projects |
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| John Richards Nurseries |
John Richards Nurseries is a leading supplier of specialist plants to garden centres in the UK. We have worked with them to establish a comprehensive online ordering and information system for their trade customers, which links with their existing sophisticated back-office order processing systems.
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| Hackman the Dog www.hackmanthedog.com |
Hackman is a canine hero with all the stresses and insecurities that a paranoid New Yorker can suffer. We helped Hackman to build his website and database.
It hasn't solved any of his personal problems, but at least now he can share them with the rest of the world.
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| Trees for Life® www.frankpmatthews.com |
Frank P. Matthews is one of the largest and longest-established producers of fruit trees and ornamental trees in the UK, supplying trees under the Trees for Life® brand. We have created the website and the associated content management system.
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| Gift of the Year www.giftoftheyear.co.uk |
The Gift of the Year awards recognise and reward products of excellence within the industry. The annual awards are run by the GA, and we have worked with them to establish a website where competitors can enter their products for various award categories. We have also provided an extensive content management system which allows the GA to manage the annual award process, from managing subscriptions, providing sponsorship opportunities, to the judging process and final award ceremony. The system is a unique combination of online shop and event management.
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| Glorious Britain www.gloriousbritain.co.uk |
We provide the online shopping system, secure payment gateway, and extensive back office tools for managing website products, product categories, promotions, marketing campaigns, and email-based customer marketing.
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| Museum of London www.museumoflondonshop.co.uk |
We have worked with the Museum of London to create their online shop and online shop management system, which specialises in gifts and books about London.
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| Yarto Group www.yarto.com |
The Yarto Group offers a range of quality and fun products to department stores, mail order catalogues, tourist attractions and museums. We provide the eCommerce framework for their online trade-only shops such as:
www.yartousa.com, www.yarto.co.uk, and www.yartopromotionalgifts.com.
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| Keepers Nursery www.keepers-nursery.co.uk |
Keepers Nursery is one of the largest fruit tree suppliers in the UK. We develop and maintain the website for their online shop as well as the associated nursery management system. The website is one of the most comprehensive online resources about fruit trees.
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| M.P. Levene www.mplevene.co.uk |
M.P. Levene is a long established family business, offering a selection of the finest English silverware. We provide the XML and search engine optimisation technology for their online catalogue.
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| Stenco Flowers www.stencoflowersltd.co.uk |
Stenco Flowers are wholesalers of a range of craft flowers and accessories. We have provided their online catalogue system.
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| TK Maxx www.tkmaxx.com |
We provided consultancy support during a website procurement and development project.
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| Promod www.promod-diecast.co.uk |
Promod supply and manufacture model vehicles and collectors' miniatures. We have supplied their online shop system.
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Other Projects |
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| Energy 365 |
Energy 365 provides news, information and research services to the upstream oil and gas exploration industry worldwide. We have worked with Energy 365 to develop a sophisticated research management system, providing newsfeeds, affiliate resources and online publishing facilities.
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| Gilmartin Ley |
Gilmartin Ley is an independent firm of Chartered Surveyors and property consultants. We have worked with them to establish an internal job management system with a sophisticated document indexing capability, which will replace tens of thousands of paper documents.
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| Orange Pippin www.orangepippin.com |
Orange Pippin is a specialist resource about the flavours and origins of apple varieties - see www.orangepippin.com.
We originally established this website as a demonstrator for our search engine optimisation techniques, although it has now taken on a life of its own and receives more than 30K hits per month. Bearing in mind that "apple" is a very common word, why not try some searches on Google or MSN to see where our Orange Pippin website comes in the rankings:
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| Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services (UK) www.bvcpsuk.com |
The Consumer Products Services division of
Bureau Veritas provides quality assurance services
for consumer and retail products. We develop
and support the Laboratory management system in
Leicester, including integration with their other international corporate
systems. Customers are able to place orders through a website ordering system which is fully integrated with the laboratory management system.
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| de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School Association www.dhaetsa.org.uk |
This is the website of the thriving association of former "DHAeTS" students, who passed through the de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School since it was founded in 1928.
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| Society of Dyers and Colourists www.sdc.org.uk |
The SDC aims to advance the science of colour in
the international community. We have worked
with the Society on a number of projects, including
the content management systems for
ColourClick,
the definitive electronic information service for
the global coloration community, and Colour Index International.
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| Whole Systems Partnership www.thewholesystem.co.uk |
WSP helps to improve partnership working and
service integration in the UK health and social care sectors.
We have supported WSP with IT and systems development
consultancy in a number of UK health and social care organisations and local authorities. We have also developed online versions of some
of their systems dynamics models. See
http://cheshire.thewholesystem.co.uk for example.
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| Help Internet www.helpinternet.co.uk |
We provide the help desk job management system for this IT and communications services company.
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| Joan Morgan's Fruit Forum www.fruitforum.net |
Joan Morgan is the author of the "New Book of Apples", the definitive guide to the apple varieties in the world-famous UK National Fruit Collection. We helped her setup her own website and blog, a webspace for anything and everything to do with fruit.
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| Karta Przedplacona |
We developed the affiliate database for this prepaid card affiliate marketing system.
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| Meet Markets |
Development of the content and subscriber management system for an online dating website.
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| Alpha Retail www.worldnewspromo.com |
Alpha Retail came up with the innovative idea of using an online auction model as a way of selling advertising space in their retail outlets. This approach means that all clients have an equal opportunity to get the best locations for their magazine portfolios, or perhaps pick up some extra space at a bargain price. We worked with Alpha Retail to develop the auction system, along with the back office management system for setting up the auctions and notifying bidders of the results of their bids.
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Horticulture and related industries |
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| Philip Wilson Arboriculture www.pwarb.com |
This website for a Kent-based tree advisory service is based on our small business system, and is a good example of how a simple website can help a small local business to advertise its services online in an attractive and cost-effective manner.
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| Lealans Garden Centre www.lealansgardencentre.co.uk |
A family-run garden centre with the emphasis on real plants for real gardeners. The website uses our online catalogue system.
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| Yorkshire Orchards |
We started this brand-new orchard in 2002 in partnership with a local farmer, and it is now a highly-successful small business. The concept was to establish an online orchard and to this end we also developed tools for orchard management data capture using PDAs and wireless networks.
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| DEFRA |
We carried out market research into supply chains for local orchard produce. See www.orchardfruitresearch.co.uk for more details.
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Community involvement |
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| Action Access A1079 www.a1079.org |
We have contributed website content management software and hosting for this local partnership, campaigning to improve safety and reduce congestion on the local A1079 York-Hull road.
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| Pocklington Gateway www.pocklingtongateway.org.uk |
We also support this local partnership organisation which aims to "do something" to improve the town and surrounding area.
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| Lemsford Village local history group www.lemsfordhistory.co.uk |
We have contributed website content management software and hosting for this group of village historians from Lemsford Village in Hertfordshire.
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Since many of our projects relate to content management systems, website / database integration, and other 'behind the scenes' systems it is not always possible to demonstrate our contribution here. If any of these projects are of interest please contact us to find out more, and we will be happy to put you in touch with the relevant client project manager.
See our testimonials page for more details.
