Shelterbox
ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity that delivers emergency shelter, warmth and dignity to people affected by disaster worldwide. The site was designed by Leap in Cornwall as part of Shelterbox’s brand identity. Devstars took over in November to build the site and CMS. A slimmed down CMS has been built for the overseas partners so they can update local news and their own features while still pulling in global news and deployment information from the UK HQ.
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Join 1GOAL
1GOAL is a charity fronted by Queen Rania of Jordan and Sepp Blatter with the goal to put pressure on world leaders to provide education for 72million children by 2015. It doesn’t cost anything to join 1GOAL, all that is needed is your name and email.
The site uses an IP db to detect the users country and language and then provide relevant info back to the user. For example visitors from Brazil are more likely to see Robhino.
The site is built using content delivery networks (CDN), sprites and minfied JavaScript to optimise for heavy traffic loads and ensure fast page loading.
Were also using Amazon’s Elastic cloud computing service to host the sites with a server cluster that shares visits of 3 virtual dedicated servers. This gives the site capabilities to accept over a million visits/day.
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New Blood Art
New Blood Art were on their second developer and had spent over a year having their new site built when we were hired to take over development. The existing code was unworkable and we set about coding the site from scratch. Development this time round took a little under a month and costs were a fraction of what had already been spent. The site utilises our own e-commerce engine but builds in some bespoke tools to show relative sizes of the art for example along with auto emails so artists know when they have sold a piece.
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Sarah Kaye
9 years ago we built Sarah Kayes first web site to display the work of their hugely talented Photographers and Stylists. A few years later we added a custom CMS but the front end remained the same until we finally got the call a couple of months back to do a complete rebuild and redesign.
It was long overdue but we were finally able to make all those little tweaks we’d dreamed of. We’re strong believers in keeping things simple and especially with a photography site where you don’t want things distracting from the photos.
We’ve used a simple filter mechanism so visitors can view by Photographer (or Stylist) and category or a combination of the 2. Sarah Kaye can update images themselves or create logins for the photographers so they can manage their own photos.
Full size images can be browsed through or you can just sit back and watch a slide show. Visit the site to see some great images…
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Sandbag
We have been both an advisor and web provider for Sandbag. The task was to remove bottle-necks from their e-comm set up and help streamline their work flow. From research into SAP, Sage, Magento, Drupal and Bar-coding we have all come a long way to find a solution. As a consultant Devstars have provided guidance and project management throughout the task which is still on-going. Watch this space!
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Renaissance
We worked on the old Renaissance web site for a few years so were delighted they asked us to build a brand spanking new one. Working with Mystery we’ve been able to incorporate content management for their entire back catalogue of events and music plus all the new stuff as well.
We created a distributed content management system so that their representatives around the world can update their own sections adding events and local releases.
Young Shelterbox
The Young Shelterbox site is a spin off from the main site targeting school children, teachers and the Scout movement. The site is all content managed and has modules for galleries, teaching packs and updating on site competitions. A Young Shelterbox USA site will be launched very soon.
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Loose Moose
We started working with Loose Moose 9 years ago and this is the 4th incarnation of their company site. The site is fully content managed and streams FLV and Quicktime video to showcase their portfolio of CGI, puppet and claymation films and commercials. The back office allows projects to be uploaded to secure areas for client approval.
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Happy Finish
These guys are true masters of imagery, be it CGI or retouching if you can imagine it they can make it happen. Our new web site for Happy Finish allows them to showcase their work and keep clients up to date with ongoing projects. We’re particularloy pleased with a flash based CMS presentation tool that allows Happy Finish to show how CGI images are created from wireframe to completion.
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Paul McCartney
For the last 6 years we have managed and hosted Paul McCartney’s official message board. The board has 24 thousand registered members posting half a million threads and serving nearly 700 simultaneous users on occasion.
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Bob Dylan Store
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Nike Lunar Mariah
Nike’s new Lunar Mariah pulls from a rich heritage of classic trainers going back to the 80′s and incorporates NASA’s Lunar foam (hence the name). We worked with long term Nike designers Rosie Lee to build a slick actionscript 2.0 Flash site that showcases the heritage by pulling in carousels of past advertising.
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Timberland
We’ve been commissioned to build and manage Timberlands Italian, German and Spanish sites for the next 18 months or until their US built global site is completed. Timberland wanted an efficient reactive agency for the build and to manage production and translation of marketing materials for each seasons collections. The first site for Italia was completed in record time.
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Studio G14
Studio G14 provides a highly specialist and professional one to one personal training service. We created a slick content managed site that supports and showcases their bespoke service and attention to detail.
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RunDemCrew
Rosie Lee take an active interest in Run Dem Crew joining in on their weekly nocturnal jaunts around London. They asked us to help them build a new site that pushed what could be achieved with WordPress and create a portal for the club to encourage dialog and allow multiple contributors to add to the site.
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G4S Global Intelligence System
Over the past few months we’ve been working with G4S to develop a brand new subscription based security site offering reports and email alerts to business people travelling the world.
The site provides travellers with up to the minute security briefings, latest news, country reports and threat ratings along with email bulletins that can be customised by the users.
The Google maps API is integrated throughout so each news item or alert can be geo tagged to provide an at a glance overview of the users area.
Working closely with the team at G4S and brand guardians Stylus, we focused on information architecture and usability both for users and admins.
Most recent additions to the site have been a flash sales presentation and integration of e-commerce and region breakdowns for countries.
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Int Research
Int Research provide operational services, training and equipment for security and intelligence operations. Given the sensitive nature one certain areas of the web site are accessible to the public and the client has the ability to publish password protected documents when required.
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Rent Your Rocks
Our jewellery rental site designed by Mystery won Elle Magazines site of the Month back in April! Users can rent expensive jewellery at a fraction of the cost for parties, weddings etc.
We adapted our e-commerce platform to incorporate a calendar that would show product availability.
See other some other e-commerce sites we have built:
www.bobdylanstore.co.uk . www.deluxeproduct.com
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Nike Size
Nike produced a special range of retro trainers to mark online retailer Size’s 10th anniversary.
Rosie Lee designed the site and asked us to put together an easy to update site that could reveal the full range of shoes of a number of weeks. The site utilises css sprites and the code was written specifically to be portable and easy to send over to Size’s own development team for insertion into the site.
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Salomon Trail Running
The Salomon Trail Running web site showcases a whole year of running events from their hard core turbo x events to 10k forest trails and running camps. The site will feature streamed video and galleries post event along with embedded Google maps, event calendars, product guides and news updates.
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Sport Academies
Sport Acadamies run Fun, Active, Safe & Inspirational sport courses for 3-15 year olds. Mystery did the designs for the site and bought us in build an e-commerce platform where Parents could book their children on to the hundreds of courses they run at venues all over London.
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One Office
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Inverstar
Inverstar is a boutique consulting firm that helps organisations win by improving the performance of leaders at the top, talent on the front line and those in the creative engine room.
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PDQ auto parts site
PDQ have been tuning motorcycles and selling performance parts since 1984 and we were first asked to help out adding some functions onto their old web site about 6 years ago. For years they have been updating html pages themselves but the time had come for a fully fledged content managed e-commerce site.
Unlike most e-commerce sites each product is only relevant to a particular make, model and year, another hurdle is that suppliers often have different ways on naming the models.
Through careful planning and working closely with the client we produced a system to overcome these issues and create an admin area that was as easy as possible to update.
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Jagz
Jagz is a bar, restaurant, club and live music venue in Ascot. We built a content managed site with live booking for special occasions.
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De-Ville
Brasserie De Ville’s quest is to spread joy to the people of Canary Wharf with the tastiest grilled meats and fresh homemade salads – good honest food.
We were asked by brand design agency Mystery to serve up a tasty little W3C spec site for De Ville.
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Shelterbox DE
ShelterBox is a global charity and needs a global presence. We’ve developed a distributed content management system that allows the UK charity to update the site globally while territories can update content locally.
New foreign language sites can be rolled out in less than a day and we now manage satellite sites for Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and the USA.
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1GOAL
The 1Goal site was created first in English and then rolled out and translated in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Netherlands and Arabic.
Additionally a database linking ip addresses with ISO 3166 codes allowed us to not only present the site in a visitors language but deliver targeted content such as showing local football players.
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Deluxe Product
Bespoke e-commerce site for boutique kitchen accessory site. The site supports multiple items images, home page shop window with recommended buys and special offers. We have created easy to change modules that can drive traffic to specific areas for special promotions like valentines, mothers day etc.
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New Blood Art were on their second developer and had spent over a year having their new site built when we were hired to take over development. The existing code was unworkable and we set about coding the site from scratch. Development this time round took a little under a month and costs were a fraction of what had already been spent. The site utilises our own e-commerce engine but builds in some bespoke tools to show relative sizes of the art for example along with auto emails so artists know when they have sold a piece.
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Hot Rocks
Our latest site for Hot Rocks restaurant in Bournemouth. was designed by Salad Creative and built by DevStars and includes a whole host of great features including: Full content management of menus, video footage, galleries, careers Interactive surfing game with scoring for sticky content Content managed events section that allows start date and end dates for promos and events so the content manages itself. Updatable monthly competition. CMS for rotating banners Google Analytics web stats
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Slug & Lettuce Games
We started working for Bay Restaurant Group (well it was called Laurel Pub Company back then) in 2003 and since then have built a number of web sites for the group and brands such as Slug & Lettuce, Fiesta Havana and Yates. We’ve adapted some classic games to create Slug Man and Slug Invaders on the current web site.
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Your Justice Your World
Existing Flash site translated into Welsh for Ministry of Justice.
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Trail Running SE
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Watt Works
Working closely with our design partners Sane & Able we created a brand new identity for consultancy start-up Watt Works. We built the site using WordPress, with some custom work behind the scenes to get specific colours on certain pages, custom (non-web) fonts, recommended books in the footer & a few niceties for people with better browsers. 90% of all this is editable from within WordPress.
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No Tie Generation
Generally we write our own CMS’s but this time round we were asked specifically for a reskinned WordPress site. WordPress gives you a quick route to market but most blogs do tend to look like, well blogs and our first task was to address this issue with our good friends at Mystery Brand Design. A snazzy front end was design and built around a 960 px grid, using dhtml and javascript to bring movement and accordian style navigation. One of the great things about WordPress is the large number of plug-ins which can be used to add functionality like analytics tracking, twitter feeds and links to social networking sites.
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Run Dem Crew
Rosie Lee take an active interest in Run Dem Crew joining in on their weekly nocturnal jaunts around London. They asked us to help them build a new site that pushed what could be achieved with WordPress and create a portal for the club to encourage dialog and allow multiple contributors to add to the site.
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Fonehome
FoneHome.co.uk, is a site on the absolute front-line of the UK mobile phone scene, powered by a crack team of experts and dedicated to delivering the very best daily mobile news, latest reviews, hottest hands-on videos, must-know tips and tricks.
Republic Publishing had highlighted that users often came to the site for advice before getting a new mobile and asked Devstars to re-design and re-focus Fonehome on phone comparisons.
New WordPress templates were designed and created and a custom plug-in was built to tag articles by made, model and os.
For hosting we setup a virtual server instance using Amazon’s web services along with full system monitoring, relational database service and content delivery network.
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