Portfolio
Return to our homepageLike a sausage roll .. .. in a sea of cucumber sandwiches, we like our work to stand out from the crowd, whether it's web design or application development.
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Bill Edwards
Read about the crazy coincidence? Apologies, we made it up for comic effect. One fact remains true however, we were approached by a Wiltshire-based dental technician desperate for a web presence to tout his not inconsiderable wares.
Primarily used to entice punters through local advertising, the site has been optimised for search engine indexing in a rather simple way; semantic HTML and relevant keywords. The design deviates from your usual small business website having been built around the "Tech Tooth". Why have cotton (a two column, navigation on the left, teal and gray design) when you can have silk (a design with a tooth in the middle)?
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Just the File
A variety of cries along the lines of "Sorry, my router isn't letting me send over MSN" resulted in Development XL putting together Just the File, a simple file upload script. Usability was at the heart of this project, so our primary development goals were to keep the site clean, simple and provide immediate and consistent user feedback at every stage of the upload.
Written in AJAX, PHP and Perl with a dash of XML and XSLT this was always a project to have a little fun with. We have popped up a cross-browser concept version of the site for your file-uploading pleasure.
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Mickspace
Originally a mission to usurp a name sharer from the number one spot of Google, Mick's website has evolved into an actual website with a couple of pages of content and a few images. The site aims to keep Mick's legions of friends, fans and well-wishers in the loop regarding music he's just listened to, things he's just written and a variety of other Mick-related happenings.
A clean site primarily concerned with the (not very clean) content, it conveys the pointless information effortlessly.
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Inabags Logo
Inabags, a handbag designer based rather impressively in Tokyo, Japan (as opposed to Tokyo, Middlesex) wanted a tempting logo set to make the buyers turn Japanese and make rash, impulse purchases without thinking it through and having to put it on credit (that'd be British then).
The logo includes a rather dinky little handbag placed over the perched dot of the 'i'. The design had to be fairly simple in order to be printed on labels and pressed into the leather, mission accomplished!
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Palaearctic
Deeply under construction and due in March 2008, Palaearctic aims to be a popular travel website catering for overlanders and other slightly less conventional travelers. Overlanding is exactly as it sounds, traveling surface, usually in your own vehicle, rather than taking the sissies' way out and resorting to that most miserable method of transportation; aircraft.
The website will include discussion forums, diary entries from, at the start, my own experiences of eastern Europe, reviews, images and a variety other media including short films and commentaries. A one stop shop for people crazy enough to drive to Azerbaijan on a budget that would normally struggle to get you to Shepton Mallet.
