With Christmas fast approaching ‘tis the season of panto’. Curve Leicester’s Christmas production of the classical Peter Pan is destined for success.
We were approached by the Curve to produce a fun and exciting game based on their Christmas Production of Peter Pan. (Thanks for the referral from our friends at Work Design)
Our storyboard/synopsis started with the open sea and the galleon of Hook, with his pirates taking centre stage. Peter flies around the ship while Hook and his Pirates throw numerous objects to knock him down. The aim of the game is to gain a highscore and beat your friends. Along the way there are score bonuses and special bonuses to collect, which all account to your total score. At any time you are able to pause the game to continue later and are able to forward the game to a friend to compete against each other.
Notts County Cricket Club kickstarted the season with a bang and naturally the website followed suit.
A new redesign was put in place to drive focus on up and coming fixtures as well as match reports on the most recent games. The new fixtures calendar, uses JSON technology to keep the calendar up to date, it is a much lighter platform than XML and much more compatible with different mediums.
With a new flash feature to highlight the latest news giving a more uplifting homepage along with a more vibrant colour scheme, this also followed through to a new Email Template Design. We also implemented a new media player was introduced for Video casts as well as Podcasts and a live feed from the Trent Bridge, Twitter.
During the Twenty20 World Cup we produced a Microsite to promote the venue due to slow sales. Utilising our Email Marketing Suite and sending E-shots to their 30000+ member mailing list, within 2 weeks we had received 80 000 unique visits to the Microsite and tickets had sold out.
We have many more features lined up for the NCCC Website, so watch this space.
Dixon Cheng 2 times Time Attack Champion approached 3bit for an engaging website which would allow him to keep users up to date with his motor sport news while also showing the extensive list of products and services he was providing in his new venture.
Located in the Heart of London DMS is surprisingly one of very few Motor sport companies specialising in race car and track preparation in the capital.
In collaboration with Work Design we were commissioned to develop upon the designs provided by Work Design to engage users with beautiful photography supplied by GWH to showcase their extensive and impressive portfolio.
Using a mixture of Javascript and CSS we were able to create a subtle and useable interface which showcases GWH’s architecture.
Behind the scenes is a fully content managed site which gives GWH full control of their website. General news, articles and projects can all be created, edited as required. There is also a specific module which allows them to feature any of their project gallery images on the homepage.
Nottingham based Lynam Tax are specialists at managing Tax Disputes and Tax Enquiries.
Lynam Tax approached 3bit with requirements for an online solution to promote their business. They wanted to showcase the extra benefits of a more personal and independent approach.
We agreed that a Content managed website would be a necessity and produced a bespoke solution. The site would be quite text heavy to give users a wealth of knowledge.
The design would be accessible, professional, and usable. A Wordpress blog was also integrated to push tax related news and details of up and coming Lynam Tax Lectures.
3bit were approached by The Manchester Library Theatre to enter a 5 way pitch for an all new website, we are glad to say that our proposal was successful and the site has just gone live.
We submitted a proposal for a total New Design, Development of a new content management system, an improved email marketing solution with a much more usable template builder and a general restructure of workflow and usability.
Univega Ride It The 3bit Way
Year: 2008
3bit have launched the all New website for Univega Uk. Raleigh owned
Univega is breaking into the UK market once again. With the release of the 2009 range of Carbon and Alloy Mountain Bikes, Freeride Ram series and the Via Road series.
The website showcases the range of bikes in stock with in-detail specs also allowing users to purchase securely online via HSBC’s secure e-payments and Google Checkout. Users can also keep up to date with the Univega Race Team via the online blog.
In collaboration with Miriam Wong Design Management 3bit have launched an online email marketing solution for Nottingham City Council division NEBA (Nottinghamshire Education Business Alliance). The solution we provided to NEBA unlike most email marketing systems isn’t based on a cost per email, once setup it allows you to send as many email newsletters as you wish to an unlimited number of subscribers. The system has the flexibility which allows them to add bespoke branded email template’s, enabling them to send specific targeted e-shots on behalf of their clients.
There is full read, link and bounce tracking which is a receipt of acceptance and also a measure of success rate.
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Godine with me.
Year: 2008
Nottingham based Go dine offers a new free online restaurant booking service which takes out the hassle of finding a suitable restaurant in your area and also gives the user a detailed overview of the dining experience. In collaboration with Web Developer Tony Hearn and working closely with Go dine Director Adam Roberts we knuckled down to produce a useable, functional and informative website.
To produce the website we had 3 main challenges which were to produce a front end interface which would appeal and function to the consumer market, secondly an administration area for restauranteurs to update their restaurant details, photographs, special offers and also reveal up to date restaurant bookings, and thirdly an administration area for Go Dine staff to confirm bookings with the restaurants and send out automated details and reminders to the customers.
The key to the growing success has been the close relationship between the team and the consistency of revisiting the site as a whole, to the in keeping of seasonal updates in the same way as a restaurant’s menu.
With the success of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Clubs promotion to Division One it was essential to design a new look and further develop facilities on the website. We integrated functionality for Podcasts, news updates, related news and event linking, team profiles and a juniors section. The new shop also allows a much simpler ordering process with secure payments via debit and credit cards.
The persistence of updated news, match reports and raising awareness of upcoming news and events via our online email marketing software draws the user in to return to the site.
Since the revamp we have seen a 15% increase of unique visitors with an average of 3000 > 4000 unique visits per day and a peak of 11419 unique visits from a single day in October.
Spyder Club is an exclusive motorcycle club located in the heart of motorsport Donington Park.
We have recently launched their New website weapon which gives their users, details about their portfolio of high performance bikes for hire. The most impressive part of the website is the Members area. Members can log in via our secure system where they can then book and cancel bikes online for future pickup. The system automatically calculates and deducts an appropriate number of points from the members profile.
Spyder Club are able to book bikes in and out via the Administrator Dashboard. When bikes are booked back in, the system automatically calculates total mileage used by the member and also stores the bikes total mileage in the bike profile.
Spyder Club received a full bespoke content management facility for the website as well as administration for bikes and members.
