It’s been over 6 months since my last post which is shameful really. My only excuse is that I have a dozen or so high-quality articles waiting as ‘drafts’ which I never seem to have time to finish – we’ve been lucky enough to have been 100% flat out with client work since as long as I can remember.

As a quick update as to what we’ve been upto during the last 6months; we’ve worked on numerous projects including a number of new SEO/SEM clients, a few interesting web-design only projects, a couple of really nice branding projects and plenty of full web design & builds too!

A couple of the full web builds include:

We’re currently working with a number of small businesses; finalising site designs, building, and adding content to a host of different websites. Expect 4 or 5 new websites to go live over the coming months – if we have time we’re also hoping to also roll out a major refresh of our own site!

We’re currently taking on new clients for early December 2010 onwards – feel free to contact us with your enquiry as we’d love to help.

Realtime Despatch provide on-line software applications for the management of multiple Ecommerce sales channels and Warehouse Stock Control – or as their headers succinctly put it;

• “Hassle free order processing and warehouse management software.”
• “Pull together orders from different sources”
• “Track items in your warehouse”
• “Process, pack and despatch orders”

We initially started with the project a total re-branding of their existing corporate ID, modernising the whole feel of the company and enforcing them as market leaders with what is an extremely high quality product.

Once the branding was finalised the web design project started with an in-depth content, wire-frame and grey-scale layout process.

As Realtime’s web based application targets three distinct markets (E-Tailers, Fulfilment Houses & Web Developers) – our (not so easy) task was to deliver the applications general benefits together with highly targeted content unique to each different user base. All without turning away any of the 3 user bases or looking cramped.

Our grey-scale design process helps immensely with finding the optimum way to display the content of the website, so both the copy and layout deliver the right information at the right time and in the right place.

Our solution was to combine a generic header with a tabbed based user-focussed sub-header – giving each user base a quick overview as well as quick and easy access to specific and key area of interest.

Once the copy, content and layout had been agreed we were tasked with final design process, implementing colours and branding throughout. Then onto a standards compliant (including the dreaded and ‘dead’ IE6!) HTML & CSS build.

Unusually the client opted out of a full Content Management System (CMS) build. For ease of use however we also helped build the structure of the site with PHP, making it all as modular as possible.

Charlie and Phil over at RD where great to work with and we’re delighted that they’ve now tasked us with helping them with the User Interface Design (UI) of the main application itself.