We specialise in dynamic websites, online stores and E-newsletters.

We’ve been working with the Get Bike team for almost 2 years now and after drastically reducing their Google Adwords spend and increasing their ranking in the main Google results we are making good progress (have a look at CBT London in Google: that’s number one of about 1 million and that’s just one term.)

Internally they now have an intranet based Booking Calendar to book in the thousands of people they help through their Compulsory Basic Motorbike Training each year. As part of our gradual roll out we have just released the Online Booking Element which checks their intranet for booking availability and allows pupils to reserve a space on the web site.

Rather than re-invent the calendar system, we have used Yahoo’s excellent calendar plug-in too - part of the set of user interface tools Yahoo have kindly released to the developer community. We also use Ajax technologies so that the office based system automatically updates itself whenever a new online or office based booking is made. As you can see from the booking system we are going for a gradual release - it’s not fully automated yet, because the pupil must be able to provide their licence to take the course, although we are hoping to move that way soon.

Once a booking is made online and confirmed or in the office then Get Bike’s internal 3rd party accounting system is automatically updated with the pupils details and their payment information.

It looks that we will seriously save admin time, decrease the mistakes in the paper based system and allow people to book out of hours: this truly fits with our vision for Online Business.

Next up it’s time to make the Get Bike site look as nice as it performs.

the old New Wine web site was one of our first projects and had been live for around 18 months so Sarah and I got together with the staff at New Wine to create a slicker, cleaner interface which works better with the professional marketing communications that New Wine have off line. So thanks to Lucy and Ali at New Wine for helping out with the re-design too. The new site was built as part of our ongoing Support Agreement that we have with New Wine and follows our ethos of not simply building a site and leaving our clients to work it all out for themselves. We meet regularly, advise and listen to how the web site can be improved and continue to engage it’s users. This helps the sites we build stay fresh and leads to a great on-going relationship for all parties. Take a look.

Once again Dan Etheridge, the web designer at Soul Survivor, has managed to create a rather cool looking new splash page for their site. As part of our ongoing Support Agreement with them, we built a tiny little application in about an hour which would pull in a random set of flash images on to their page. This means that every time you visit their web site you get to see a different set of graphics… very nice and the kind of thing that’s great to maiintain user interest in your web site. And if Dan wants to have a new set of images to greet new users he simply uploads them to a folder on the server.
Take a look (and refresh your browser).