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big news round-up, new projects, new clients!
09.07.10
Hell's bells! It's been several weeks since the last news update and while we like to update this section more regularly, sometimes we're just so busy with client work that it's not possible!
So this time around we've got a bumper crop of fresh news and project updates.
We were recently asked to make a HTML / CSS slideshow presentation for Reck Associates, business trainers and consultants. The brief was to create a slideshow following a pre-established script, and of course we needed to make sure that the final presentation is cross browser compatible and that the contents are accessible and search engine friendly.
The result is a great looking slideshow, that is nicely styled and accessible. Check it out here.
Our project with New York clothing label Miló is almost completed. The project involves the design and build of a content managed site with an e-commerce platform and we're almost ready to go live with the final site. In the meantime, we put together a simple, static HTML, stripped down version of the site as a teaser and you can see this here until the final, fully featured site is launched.
Existing client The Corporate Partnership recently modified their business model and asked digitalHappy to work with them on a rebranding exercise, with a brief to deliver a new corporate identity, new website, offline print materials and support PDF documents.
You may view the new web site and branding here and we're happy to say that the client is very happy with the results, as are we also!
We're very pleased to have won a number of new projects and clients since the last news update.
These include a branding and content managed web design and development project for a recruitment agency, another content managed web design and development project for a Dutch business training consultancy, and we very recently learned that we've won the contract to redesign and and implement our CMS for one of Barcelona's most established teacher training centres.
The first two of the above new projects are underway and currently in production, and we'll be able to post more news on these shortly. The last one is very new and we're about to start work on the initial site wireframing and will again post more news when we're able to.
As ever, we of course also continue to provide ongoing support for our existing clients and we've been busy working with Reflex Marine on their offline print promotional tools and with Go English on their custom web backend system.
We're also due to begin work shortly with Go English to develop a new e-commerce site, and we'll also be designing and managing their online newsletters and mailing campaigns.
And there's more...!
We're currently also working on a new site for an Ibiza based luxury property and concierge services provider and this gives us the chance to put together some great design with some detailed backend functionality. Once again, we'll post more on this project when we're able to.
Due to launch soon is a web redesign for our good friends Barcelona Adventure, and this is scheduled to go live in the next week or so, pending a final content review.
And that brings us more or less up to date!
Once again, we'd like to say a big thank you to all of our new clients for choosing digitalHappy to work on their projects, and as ever, if you have any ideas for a digital media project of any kind, please do get in touch - we'd love to hear from you!
new Lucas Fox front end goes live
29.04.10
We've been providing web design and development services to Lucas Fox for some time now, and we're very happy to report that the new and revamped front end of their web site has just gone live.
The core functionality remains unchanged, as does our in-house engine that drives the site, but we've designed and implemented a whole new front end, giving the site a new look and feel that will provide a better, more contemporary browsing experience for the site's users.
We were asked to provide a new front end to respond to user feedback and useful empirical data based on analytics and input from the site's Search Engine Optimisation partner. Our work includes a reworking of the all important search interface on the site, presenting new ways for the user to access other key levels of the info hierarchy, and introducing better, more focused means of displaying key page info.
This is a big site with a lot of data that receives a lot of traffic, and even minor changes can have big effects. We're pleased with the work and look forward to seeing how our changes will affect the user experience as a whole and the site's overall conversion rate.
The new site is live at www.lucasfox.com so please have a look and do let us know if you have any feedback.
digitalHappy trade fair stand designs for client Go English
16.04.10
Go English asked us to design some displays for their stand at a recent trade fair and we were happy to help. Using the overall branding and corporate style guidelines that we've developed with them over the years of our work together, we produced a large format roll-up backdrop, a large format poster, some product specific A4 handouts and some competition A6 flyers.
Thanks to Go English for providing the photos of our work - it's always nice to see what we produce in action and working well for our clients!
much behind the scenes work, projects in progress and new clients
09.04.10
This month's news round-up is a little late as we've been so busy, but here it finally is!
First up is some web development work that we've been doing. This is ColdFusion web development to integrate a well known accounting software package into a third party online shopping system. It's an interesting challenge and is a different type of project to our normal work as there is no visual element to this - it's just pure development. We're not at liberty to say who the work is for, but we can say that the client is very happy with the project so far!
Our site refresh for long term client Lucas Fox is almost ready to go live. We've designed and built the site templates and we're currently in a final check stage prior to going live. We're very happy with this project and are looking forward to seeing it go live. Needless to say, we'll update the news as soon as the new site is publicly available.
We were asked to have at a look at an existing web site for young British motorbike rider Danny Webb. He's just moved teams for the upcoming 2010 motoGP season, and his site needed to reflect the new team colours and the old site was also looking a little tired and in need of a fresher look. We spent a bit of time rewoking the site's stylings, wiithout having to change the underlying structural code, and came up with a new look and feel for the site. You can see the old site here, and then compare it with our reworked new site here.
If you think your site is looking a little tired and could benefit from a makeover, just get in touch and let us know!
We've continued our support for client Jocasi, creating and managing another promotional email send for them. It's great to hear that our work has been really working and that the email campaigns have been generating sales for the client. To see the latest in the series of 12 monthly emails that we are creating and sending for Jocasi, click here.
More online marketing and another email design and send management project for new client Health Solutions and their MultiFEV product. We're looking forward to more work with this client, and in the meantime you can see the email layout here.
Our project with our Chamber of Commerce client is progressing nicely. The logo design is complete and we're working on the offline branding materials (letterheads, business cards and tryptich). The site design is also very much in progress, and we'll shortly be moving the site into production and integrating our Content Management System. As ever, as soon as we're able to, we'll post links to the site as soon as we're able to.
We mentioned last month that we had just won a new client account for a New York based clothing label, and that we'll be designing and building the site and online shop. This is currently in production and we're putting together the e-commerce system as we speak. The project is scheduled for completion shortly so, as ever, more news to follow...
Finally, we're again very pleased to welcome another new client to the digitalhappy family. We're going to be working on the design and development of an online shop, this time for a UK based home accessories retailer. We're very happy to have a further e-commerce site to work on and we're looking forward to getting our teeth into the project.
a bumper crop of new clients, ongoing design & development work and some nice offline print projects too!
12.03.10
This month's news round up is a little later than usual but our excuse is that we always need to focus our energies on our client work first!
Last month we reported on the print project for our client Reflex Marine and that is almost ready to go to print. As an addition to that project, we were asked to design a couple of CD-ROMs using the branding and style guideline that we've developed, and you can see the final design here.
Our property and real estate client Lucas Fox have asked us to rework their current site design and this project is currently underway. The designs have been signed off and we're currently implementing them across the site. It's a big job as this site has a lot of traffic and we're aiming to have a positive effect on site conversions. We'll post more news as the project advances further.
Our email marketing work for client Jocasi continues with the third in a series of 12 monthly emails throughout 2010. The latest email was designed with a Spring theme. It was built with love & care and the send to their database carefully managed with full stats reporting. If you're interested in reaching out to your users, clients or prospective clients, and want to have a full suite of user behaviour stats to analyse afterwards, just get in touch and let us know your ideas.
Matt has been busy on the latest version of our in-house Content Management System. We're about to launch a beta version and we're excited about the new features. Most important is a new easier to use, point-and-click facility to add new pages, delete pages and move pages within a site structure. And we've also added a shiny new user interface for our clients to enjoy. We'll be releasing a demo video shortly - as ever, more news on this to follow...
Our web design and build project for Place2Place cars is almost complete and is just about to go live - you can get a sneak preview of the new site layout here.
We've also been working with long-term client Go English in the last few weeks as they asked us to revamp their company brochure. It's now gone to print and you can see some of the page layouts here, here and here.
In addition to all this, we've also been providing more design support for Winzingo in the build up to their site launch - more news to follow, of course - and we're very pleased to welcome onboard more new clients! We'll be working with a New York based designer clothing label on the design and build of their site and online shop, plus we'll be working with a Barcelona coaching and business consultancy company on their new web site.
ongoing projects, new clients and email campaigns
05.02.10
As ever, we're busy but enjoying working on some good projects and we've had some productive meetings with new clients about upcoming work.
The Reflex Marine project mentioned in the last news round-up is progressing well, and the first draft of the user pack that we're designing for them has come back from the printers and is being proofed for amendments and corrections. If all goes well, we should be nearing completion on this shortly. In the meantime, you can see some draft layouts here, here, and here.
More good news with long time client Jocasi partnering with us to design and send a series of 12 monthly emails to support their 2010 sales campaign. The first email has gone out and you can see the final layout here.
This month also saw us putting together and managing the send of an HTML email for Reflex Marine. The email was designed to alert users to an important product manual revision. As ever, if you have an idea for any online promotion, don't hesitate to get in touch, and if you wish you can see some of our internet marketing work here.
Our branding work for our Chamber of Commerce client (mentioned in the previous post) is well under way and we're pleased with how it's progressing. As soon as we're able to, we'll post the final logo designs for viewing.
We've also been kept busy providing ongoing support for many of our clients and we've had some good meetings about upcoming projects with new clients... more news when we're able to confirm project start dates!
a great start to 2010
15.01.10
2010 has got off to a good, busy start here at digitalHappy. We're working on the product user pack print design project for our client Reflex Marine and the initial designs and concepts have already been signed off. We'll post images and more news of this project as and when we are able to.
We're also in the early stages of a web design and build project for a taxi and limousine company with bases accross the South of England. We're really excited about this project, and looking forward to meeting the usablity and site conversion challenges.
More great news for 2010 is another addition to the digitalHappy client list. We've been asked to design the overall branding and web site for a Barcelona based Chamber of Commerce. We can't say much more at the moment but we're due to start on this in the third week of January with the design and definition of the organisation's branding and corporate identity.
Just before Christmas we delivered our design and coding work to our online bingo client and this is currently being used by their in-house development team as a basis for their site. As soon as we are able to, we'll post screenshots of the completed and fully integrated results of our collaboration.
All in all, things are shaping up very well, and we're very happy with the new clients and exciting web design projects to get our teeth into. As ever, if you have a project that you'd like to talk about, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
2009 round up!
18.12.09
The Christmas holidays are almost on us and the year is drawing to a close at digitalHappy. This has been a great year for us, and we'd like to give our sincerest thanks to all our clients. We've had the good fortune to work on some great new projects with some very good clients and of course we mustn't forget all of our ongoing and existing clients for whose support we are very grateful.
This month has been very busy with a number of meetings for 2010 projects. We've got several new projects scheduled to begin as soon as we get back from the Christmas holidays. We're looking forward to working on these and will post more info in January as we begin work on them.
We created a couple of nice HTML emails for clients this month, and managed the send and delivery reporting also. You can see the Jocasi Christmas promotional email here and the Lucas Fox festive email here. If you're looking to develop your online marketing and would like to talk about the possibilities open to you with email marketing, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
We'd like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a succesful New Year!
client site launch, new clients and project updates
02.12.09
November has been a very busy month for us, and we're very happy to report that we've again gained new clients in the past month, as well as completing a number of projects that were previously in development.
The new website for St. George's Church in Barcelona has just been launched and is now live and available for viewing. We didn't handle the design work on this project, working instead on taking the designs, putting together the front-end code and then implementing the back-end content management system.
Feedback from the project owners and stakeholders has been very positive and we'd like to wish this client the best of luck with the new site and look forward to working with them on future developments of the site.
Throughout the last month we were also working on two separate projects that both involved a complete branding and corporate identity exercise (logo design, company literature and brochure design) plus the design and build of a content managed web site for each. This work was done for another agency and we're not at liberty to show the work but suffice to say the results are good and the end client is happy!
More great news as we welcome another new client to digitalHappy. We've just started work on the design and general online styles to be applied to the web site of a leading online bingo company. This is a really interesting project, with many design challenges including usability, user experience and interface design. We're very pleased to have the chance to work on it and there will be more news to follow as the project gets further underway...
There has also been a fair amount of maintenance work and support carried out for our existing clients, including preparatory work for a new company brochure for Go English and some further development work on the CRM used by our client Lucas Fox. We will also shortly be starting work on the offline design and production of some new product packs as part of our ongoing work for our client Reflex Marine.
digitalHappy to develop the new St. George's Church in Barcelona website
02.11.09
We're very pleased to be able to welcome St. George's Church in Barcelona to the digitalHappy client list and we're looking forward to working on the project. This client was referred to us from an existing client, and that really is the best way forward in our business - satisfied clients who are happy to recommend our services to their business network.
For this project we'll be working on the front end development and then the implementation of the backend and the content management system. There will be a few specific modules developed for the project that will allow the site owners to achieve their functionality targets, and we'll be able to provide more details as we approach the site launch.
digitalHappy collaborates on 350.org climate awareness event
20.10.09
350.org is a climate awareness organisation with member groups all accross the world working to raise awareness about the importance of the number 350 in climate change and how we can work towards reaching a safer environment for us all. For more information, visit the global 350.org website.
The Barcelona branch of 350.org asked us if we could donate some of our time and skills to help with the promotion of an Action Day in Barcelona on the 25/10/09, and we were happy to oblige. We've created an HTML email that has been sent to a list of action groups and individuals who may be able to help with spreading the word and generating interest in the Action Day. The first email has gone out already and there will be a follow up email shortly. You can see the initial email here.
If you're in Barcelona on the 25th October and feel like taking a stand, then check out what's happening. You'll find more information on the Barcelona 350 blog.
client site goes live and hosting news
15.10.09
The web site for one of digitalHappy's most recently acquired clients, The Corporate Partnership, has just been launched and you can visit the site here. The project involved the initial branding and logo development, plus the design and build of the web site. They have some great projects of their own on the go, and we look forward to supporting them on these and future projects.
We recently migrated our site onto our brand new server and consequently we are now also able to provide hosting for our clients, as and when required. For more info on this, please just get in touch.
new clients and projects update
01.10.09
Our web project for Merkado went live recently and you can see the site here. The project went smoothly and we look forward to providing continued support and further devleopment when necessary.
We're also pleased to welcome a new addition to our client list. We were approached by a sponsorhip agency looking to design and develop from scratch their online identity and the project is moving along nicely. The initial investigation and subsequent design stages have been completed to everyone's great satisfaction, and we're currently working on the site build. As soon as the site goes live, we'll post the url here. In the meantime, you can see a quick design screenshot here.
projects update and some links
10.09.09
We've been busy working on the ongoing projects and providing support to existing clients. Merkado is about to go live and we'll announce this and provide the final url as soon as we can. If you have a few spare minutes and would like to see a funny take on what we sometimes have to face as a digital media agency, you might like the following link - a piece about what it would be like if architects had to work like web designers, and here's a great take on the client - vendor relationship.
digitalhappy wins new clients
13.08.09
We're very pleased to welcome two new clients to the digitalHappy family. First up is DK Language Training & Consulting, a Barcelona based language training company. The project involves full branding, offline corporate identity work and the design and build of a content managed web site. The project is currently in progress and the site is about to go into production. More news to follow as the project advances.
We're equally pleased to announce the start of our web project with Merkado, an international go-to-market specialist. The project involves the design and build of a content managed web site and again, we'll be able to provide more news at a later stage as the project advances.
RML website launches
29.07.09
The Reflex Marine web site has now gone live and everyone is happy with the final results. The new CMS that we've implemented is working very well and allows the RML team to respond quickly as and when the site contents need to be refreshed, and the new design direction has received a good response.
digitalHappy web site goes live
28.07.09
The new site is finally here and live for public viewing. It's taken a little while longer than expected, as we always have to give priority to our client work, but as you see, it's now up and running.
Feedback is always appeciated and gratefully recieved, so please do let us know if you have any comments that you'd like to share with us.
new offices!
1.07.09
We're now happily installed in our new office. We're actually only a few floors up from where we were previously working at our old company, so the move hasn't been a painful procedure! We have a nice view of Gaudi's La Pedrera and if you'd like to stop by for a visit, please do get in touch! Full contact details for our new home, including telephone number, are available on our contact page.