on-IDLE Account Wins

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Sto Shop UK - Phase 3 colour match tool

The Antique Wine Company - CMS redevelopment, seo & design implementation

credEcard - Corporate Literature design

Bahamas Tourist Board - CMS development, comissioned by Fox Kalomaski

Bee Bee Fashion - Website re-design, CMS & e-commerce

Absolute Consulting - Website design and CMS

on-IDLE News

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Service Corps Website with limited CMS
An elite team of skilled professionals need a website to highlight their high service standards, services offered and contact detail.

The branding was developed by Michael Wolff from where on-IDLE designed and implemented the website. Each of the service branch pages (heating engineers, plumbers, electricians and general builders) as well as the services page have a cartoon, custom drawn by the renowned Charles Barsotti, adding much needed humour to what is normally a crisis situation for home owners.

The News and About Us sections are dynamic so that Service Corps can update these in-house, especially as the content of the About Us section are testimonials rather than the traditional corporate blurb.

This was a delightful project to work on - and it turns out that on-IDLE had a water leak that sprung just before a meeting with Service Corps - and they were happy to help and give advice and come back the same afternoon to fix the problem. Their website is right, they probably are the best plumbers, heating engineers, general builders and electricians in London.

Fox Kalomaski Website
May 2008

Marketing agency specialist for retail, travel and leisure brands, Fox Kalomaski launches a Web 2.0 site built by on-IDLE to showcase client work as well as its own digital prowess.

The new FK does showcases its work in an innovative showreel method, digital and agency video reels and a personalised introduction to the staff and services. The personal touch is increased with 3 blogs also streamed as RSS. 'Monday Morning Cynic' written each week by the joint Managing Directors, Stephen Fox and Gary Jacobs. 'The Insider' is a monthly comment on the wider business world from an industry expert, and 'Behind the Line' are the inspirations of the staff at Fox Kalomaski.

In keeping with the wider industry comment, the home page and news areas stream renowned industry magazines and news sites' RSS feeds.

Fox Kalomaski designed the base website templates from where on-IDLE in conjunction with FK project lead, Danny Brooks, on-IDLE implemented a full content management system. The system allows FK to update the existing site content and create new client work portfolios, as well as of course the Blogs.

www.foxkalomaski.co.uk

Stanhope PLC
May 2008

Commissioned by award-winning branding agency, Figtree Network, on-IDLE implemented the updated website interface design and updated the Stanhope Plc website content and images site-wide, with a focus on new projects.

www.stanhopeplc.com

Birdman Ray Official Band Site Website & CMS
April 2008

With one album release under their belts, Birdman Ray needed a new website to keep their fans updated on their upcoming gigs, provide links to buy the album, listen to some tracks and see gig photos. Contact will hopefully be used by record industry execs to sign the band.

on-IDLE designed an interface reflecting the band's idiosyncrasies, playfulness and seriousness with a full CMS (Content Management System) so that band members can update the site at any time from anywhere.

Check out the band at their next gig or visit the site www.birdman-ray.com.

Strozzis Restaurant Dynamic Website
March 2008

Strozzis is a gourmet restaurant group based in Zürich, Switzerland. Using only the freshest of ingredients and in-house recipes the group needed a website reflecting its ethos, as well as to facilitate bookings - in particular for daily lunch deliveries and catering.

Designed and commissioned by the award-winning Matter & Gretener advertising agency, on-IDLE deployed the site supported by a full CMS (Content Management System). Orders generated by the site are faxed through to the restaurants for maximum efficiency on receipt and delivery during the busy lunch hour.

The new site includes a scrolling gallery of high quality images showcasing the best dishes and features of the group, encourages news subscription in support of the database retention strategy and on-the-fly generated pdf downloads of the latest catering and restaurant menus.

www.strozzis.ch

Porta Nuova Real Estate Website & CMS
March 2008

Porta Nuova is a start-up bespoke real estate search & buying consultancy in the UK, EU and Switzerland for the discerning investor. Working with Porta Nuova, on-IDLE designed and implemented the website to reflect the company's bespoke and highly personal service.

The site is supported by a full CMS (Content Management System) allowing Porta Nuova to update all areas of the website in-house, thereby keeping the site and relevant service offering fresh.

www.portanuova.co.uk

Property Pre-Sales & Leads Generation Platform
March 2008

Commissioned by renowned London-based ICO Design, this secure platform facilitates the management and tracking of leads in selling single or multiple site property developments. The first platform developed is currently used to sell developments on Mauritius for Mauritian-Property Partnerships.

The URLs for deployed platforms are confidential, but a demo can be given on request.

Funky Bling e-Commerce Website & Corp ID
March 2008

Funky Bling is a start-up luxury jewellery and accessories importer in the UK, selling the latest fashionable Vabene watches and other accessories directly to UK consumers.

on-IDLE designed the website interface, supported by a full CMS (Content Management System), the corporate identity and corporate literature. The website lists the full product catalogue of bling watches, fashion bangles and trendiest necklaces as worn by celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Simpson and Agness Deyn amongst others.

www.funkybling.co.uk

Monika Piskorek Photgraphy Portfolio Site & CMS
February 2008

Monika Piskorek is a documentary photographer getting to the root of hard hitting subjects such as ante-natal care in Haiti, education of blind children in Poland, a women's highly personal experience of breast cancer...

Initially in preparation for an exhibition in Paris, the website designed by on-IDLE, grew to a full portfolio site. Monika, currently in documenting and researching in Haiti is able to add stories to her website from wherever she is via the full CMS (Content Management System).

www.monikapiskorek.com

Sto Shop UK
January 2008

Sto UK launched an updated version of its first ever online shop soft launched initially in summer 2007, developed by on-IDLE.

After a 6 month trial, customer feedback and usability analysis provided strong indicators for improvements that can be made to the online store in both work flow and product selection. New site developments included an expansion of the unique colour-wheel paint selector, an texture selector as well as a wish list for registered customers. Further, the buying process was much simplified by allowing a one-step registration and purchasing process. The improvements and site re-launch has resulted in an increase of 400% in sales, as well as a 50% drop in uncompleted transactions.

Recently, StoLotusan Color self-cleaning paint and StoClimasan Color odour-removing paint were both used on the project decribed as the 'Sugar Cube' on the well-known Channel 4 series, Grand Designs. This, together with a new SEO strategy, has driven significant new traffic to the Sto Shop.

www.stoshop.co.uk

ASDA Image Library
January 2008

Satellite Marketing Communications commissioned on-IDLE to design and develop the first UK ASDA Images Library launched mid-January 2008.

Like many large corporations, ASDA now saves in-house time and resources by making available approved images to all suppliers and agencies from a centralised database. The current images database is free to access, but registration is approved by one of the lead ASDA agencies prior to access being granted.

Suppliers and agencies are not only able to search and browse available images, but are also able to upload new approved images to the database. on-IDLE worked with the ISP (Internet Service Provider) to facilitate the upload of large resolution image files both directly or via FTP.

www.asda-images.co.uk

Air New zealand Trade Site
December 2007

on-IDLE built and implemented the third version of a fully content managed website for the Air New Zealand Trade site, commissioned by Fox Kalomaski.

The site interface re-design is available in 3 languages, English, German and French, and is regularly updated internally by UK Air New Zealand's marketing department. Training and regular maintenance support is supplied directly to client by on-IDLE.

Air New Zealand Trade also runs monthly promotions encouraging return traffic to the site, as well as a deeper level engagement with trade (corporate bookers and travel agencies selling Air New Zealand flights).

www.airnewzealandtrade.com

Falu
November 2007

on-IDLE implemented the new Falu website in English, French and Spanish.

Falu manufacture and distribute the machines worldwide that are used to manufacture cotton swabs, cotton pads and paper sticks.

www.falu.com

Flash Presenter - Department of Health, Swiss Confederation
June 2007

Launched an online flash presenter outlining the facts on Transplantation Medicinefor the Department of Health of the Swiss Conferderation.

For the first time in history, Switzerland has instituted comprehensive regulation on Transplantation Medicine with the introduction of the Transplantations Bill on the 1st of July 2007.

The Flash presenter was created as a quick introduction for visitors to the Swiss Home Office's public internet portal and covers topics ranging from the implications of the new legislation and issues involved in the transplantation, allocation, treatment of organ, skin and tissue transplantation.

www.transplantinfo.ch

Website launched for Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain

June 2007

The Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain (SCFB) started operating as a springboard for the careers of talented Swiss artists in the UK. As a new initiative, the SCFB now also supports high-profile projects with established artists and offers direct involvement to potential supporters and benefactors. In order to achieve these goals the Fund liaises with companies and individuals with a qualified interest in Switzerland. At the same time it seeks supporters with whom it can establish privileged partnerships, working on specific projects and on bespoke events in cooperation with cultural institutions in Switzerland and the UK.

Providing the SFCB with a bespoke CMS gives them editorial control of their content and the website longevity. A colour wheel was developed for them within the CMS which literally provides millions of colour options for the pages that can be changed in real time. Coded in CSS, the website is fully optimised for current search engines and meets accessibility guidelines.

www.scfb.org.uk

Ane-Mari Peter a Speaker at kickSTART
kickSTART are talks by design alumni of Westminster, UAL, UWE and other universities running interaction design and related new media courses. The talks aim to help students about to graduate realize the range and diversity of the opportunities open to them on their path to professionalism.

KickSTART1 is at the Harrow Auditorium, University of Westminster, from 2-5pm on Thursday 14th June. KickSTART2 is at the Street Lecture Theatre, London College of Communication, 2-5pm on Tuesday June 19th.

Who is organising these talks?
Bob Cotton, a recent research fellow in interactive media at LCC, now a project manager in the New Media Exchange (nmx) programme run by London Westside – an LDA-funded initiative to encourage knowledge transfer, the exchange of competitive intelligence, and new media entrepreneurial development.

Who should attend?
Design students about to graduate aiming at professional practice in the ‘new media’ sector. Students from disciplines such as graphics, video and film, web design, animation, information design, interaction design… These will be illustrated talks.

Website Design and E-commerce for Sto
July 2007

For the first time Sto, renowned for facade and wall cladding, are now to selling high-end environmentally friendly paints direct to the public.

on-IDLE have designed and implement a fully dynamic e-commerce website with an intuitive interface design that enables Sto’s customers to purchase products confidently online. A clever Flash colour selector tool has been built that enables a customer to view all shades available per product range.

The UK market is ready to adopt a systems approach to paint, more in-line with European, and the e-commerce website launch reflects this. The specifications of Sto’s products really are quite amazing. Based on the designs of nature, the product line includes odour neutralising and self-cleaning paints, and the website interface design allows the products to speak for themselves with a minimalist and on-brand approach.

Aldersgate Group
May 2007

The Aldersgate Group is a broad coalition of environmental agencies, NGOs, think tanks and industry representatives who believe that high environmental standards will be a major part of future economic growth and international competitiveness.

The Group engage actively with government and other key decision makers in contributing to the future development of UK economic, environment and sectoral policies, by presenting objective evidence based on the diverse backgrounds of our members.

The website, designed and developed by on-IDLE, provides an overview of the organisation's activities and its members, as well as a specially developed log-in protected members' area for meeting minutes and updates. on-IDLE also designs the Group's Annual Reports and other corporate literature.

Into - UK University Preparation for Foreign Students
Comissioned by Day 1
The website project involves coding the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) of the pre-designed templates from where Day 1 populated the website. The supporting content management system (CMS) is currently in development and is due to launch at the beginning of July.

Design & Build: Newton Prep
Newton Prep is a co-educational pre-preparatory school in Battersea, London. on-IDLE was approached to re-fresh the existing website, and add interactive features that would encourage interaction between the school, parents, pupils and staff. The site showcases Newton Prep's facilities, mission, subjects and remarkable culture which aims to encourage recruitment of new pupils and staff.

The school filmed an introduction video showing all the pupils forming an apple shape, the school's icon.

The first site phase is about the School - with future log-in protected extranets currently being developed for Parents and Pupils. All site elements are completely dynamic, supported by on-IDLE's easy to use in-house
CMS, oi-core©. Newton Prep manages all text content in-house, with on-IDLE being retained for image optimisation and future phase development. Watch this space!

Design & Build: Variety Golf Society Website, CMS & Blog

A first website for the Variety Club Golfing Society founded in 1965. The Golfing Society's primary purpose is to raise funds for the purchase of Sunshine Coaches. The website's design appeals to the Members who are a combination of sports personalities and businessmen. The site's primary purpose is to keep members informed of Society activities such as Fixtures and News Updates.

The entire site is supported by a Content Management System (CMS) with site management split between the Golfing Society and on-IDLE. The most active and innovative area of the site is the Blog, titled Fore! where Members will discuss Golf and the Society's activities.

Sunshine Coaches are presented to schools and care centres looking after sick, disabled and disadvantaged children. Some 40 years from its inception, the Society has gone from strength to strength and in 2006 raised just over £1M and presented 46 coaches.

Design and Build of Student Video Channel Xplore.tv

Xplore.tv is a real first – a chance for students to communicate with each other – through tv on the web, with a channel developed specifically for them. Members are encouraged to explore ideas, views, share jokes and stories, and make contact through the medium of tv with a potential student audience totalling 5.3 million across the UK alone.

on-IDLE have built a social network that enables sharing of pictures, audio and video and communication between members and the public. Each item is tagged so that users can search for content by ‘zones’ such as fashion, music, health, money or by related items of interest. Video is the focus of the site and on-IDLE have developed software that converts video in any format to Flash on the fly, whether taken on mobile phone, web cam, digital camera, or even HD. The site also provides a smart space for advertisers to reach a huge potential audience. Spread the word…

Double Barrel Design, CMS and Dynamic PDFs
Double-Barrel is an independent wine service established in 2005. It is not a shop but a bespoke service focussed on providing quality wines and advice.

on-IDLE provided a website and content management system that enables the business to be managed purely online. The Double Barrel website contains information about recommended wines and prices and special offers that can be ordered but not purchased through the site. All of the wines, descriptions and prices can be downloaded as PDFs. To enable these to be created dynamically, on-IDLE developed a system that can create and update PDFs directly from the content management system. This means that wine listings are always produced to the original design specifications and represent the professionalism and service that Double Barrel provide.

VIP Christmas Shopping Extravaganza
Visit a car free West End on Saturday 2 December with exclusive store offers, events and giveaways.

With marketing and communication being run by the New West End Company, the event is bound to attract crowds to the West End giving retailers a pre-Christmas boost.

The site offers a listing of special events, public service information, press information and of full itinerary of on-the-day activities.

Discover more at www.newwestend.com/vip

Site Re-Design & CMS: Oxford Street
Oxford Street is the premier shopping street in London’s West End with over 300 shops. Commissioned by the New West End Company and designed by dVision Create, on-IDLE implemented the refreshed look & feel using a combination of Flash/HTML to showcase the specially commissioned photography.

Find any shop, café, restaurant, bar or department store on the fully interactive and zoom-able street map directory – especially the famous Selfridges and John Lewis. Did you know that there are 6 MacDonald’s on Oxford Street! The map is developed in AJAX and JavaScript for maximum speed and smoothness.

The innovative billboard Flash banner is the only non-dynamic part on the site, where all pages, navigation, images and even the news ticker are updated by the customer through oi-Core – on-IDLE’s in-house, Open Source content management system (CMS). The CMS also allows for the input of metadata for maximum search engine optimisation – critical for this high-volume traffic and high-profile page.

Site Re-Design & CMS: Grade Design Consultants
Specialising in graphic and book design, this agency’s portfolio of work is an all-important showcase and an opportunity to involve website visitors (and future clients) in their work. Grade designed the page layouts, from where on-IDLE could deploy and customise our in-house content management system (CMS), oi-Core.

We developed the website and in particular the dynamic show reel in Ajax – an innovative technology that serves up the pages or sections of pages without re-loading the complete page every time you click a new button. The result is a smooth and engaging browsing experience.

Grade is an award-winning graphic design consultancy providing design solutions for clients that include: 3i, the British Library, Handrail Design, the NHS Confederation, Royal Mail and Thames & Hudson.

on-IDLE Latest Entries

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Latest entries include:

Green Awards
Over the past couple of months, environmental issues have risen to the top of the news agenda, and this includes the advertising and communication industries.

Working closely with Satellite Marketing Communications on-IDLE implemented and will maintain the website until the inaugural Green Awards in November 2006. Entries are open to businesses and organisations who develop and deliver marketing communications across all channels of communication.

The Green Awards have been created to recognise excellent creative work that illustrates and communicates the importance of CSR,
sustainable development, and ethical best practice. And they will be awarded to brands or organisations that have demonstrated their commitment to these issues in a creative and effective way across different media platforms and marketing disciplines. You can submit your entries until the 30th of September 2006, and you can book tickets for the Awards Ceremony now.

Into - UK University Preparation for Foreign Students
Day 1, the renowned integrated branding an marketing agency, and custodians of INTO commissioned on-IDLE's digital production services. INTO is a unique, university-based initiative for international students, offering new and higher quality standards of preparation for undergraduate and postgraduate study in the UK.

The website project involves coding the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) of the pre-designed templates from where Day 1 populated the website. The supporting content management system (CMS) is currently in development.

The INTO project is now moving into Phase 2 which is the development of the INTO portal - localised content websites for each INTO centre in the UK, starting with the UEA Norwich, University of Exeter and Newcastle Universities.

Sto UK
For the first time Sto UK, renowned for facade and wall cladding, are now to selling high-end environmentally friendly paints direct to the public.

on-IDLE have designed and implement a fully dynamic e-commerce website with an intuitive interface design that enables Sto’s customers to purchase products confidently online. A clever Flash colour selector tool has been built that enables a customer to view all shades available per product range.

The UK market is ready to adopt a systems approach to paint, more in-line with European, and the e-commerce website launch reflects this. The specifications of Sto’s products really are quite amazing. Based on the designs of nature, the product line includes odour neutralising and self-cleaning paints, and the website interface design allows the products to speak for themselves with a minimalist and on-brand approach.

Xplore.tv

Xplore.tv is a real first – a chance for students to communicate with each other – through tv on the web developed specifically for them. Members are encouraged to explore ideas, views, share jokes and stories, and make contact through the medium of TV with a potential student audience totalling 5.3 million across the UK alone.

on-IDLE have built a social media network that enables sharing of pictures, audio and video and communication between members and the public. Each item is tagged so that users can search for content by ‘zones’ such as fashion, music, health, money or by related items of interest. Video is the focus of the site and on-IDLE have developed software that converts video in any format to Flash on the fly, whether taken on mobile phone, web cam, digital camera, even HD. The site also provides a smart space for advertisers to reach a huge potential audience.