Merseytimber redesign

Merseytimber based in Liverpool contacted iprogress and asked for a complete redesign of their company website. We also commissioned new photography for the website to enhance the product images.

They provide kitchen and bedroom doors and accessories claiming that  you can have a whole new look by replacing first the door and drawer fronts and fitting new handles and worktops.

Merseytimber can offer vinyl wrapped and PVC edged doors and can provide a made to measure service if necessary and carry a full range of contemporary colours and styles at very competitive prices.

Visit Merseytimber by clicking here

July 19, 2010
design, development, general, liverpool, photography, website | No Comments »

Lola Loves Boutique

Lola loves is a boutique in Cavern Walks Liverpool city centre as well as a luxurious fashion label.

iprogress were asked to design and build a site that reflected the style of the clothes and also add the ability for people to buy them online. A funky design was created around an ecommerce site that enabled the boutique to sell their clothes and accessories to a wider audience.

Lola Loves are fairly new to the fashion world but already they have a host of devotees to the brand. Recognized for their flirty, cool, colourful and glamourous designs we have built a website that they can update themselves and shout about new collections through email marketing and social media.

View Lola Loles Boutique’s  collections here

July 15, 2010
content management, design, development, general, liverpool, website | No Comments »

Mersey Skips Artwork off the press

Mersey Skips have asked us to design and print their promotional folder, inserts and business stationary.

The artwork was to reflect the recycling element of their business and promote their services to demolition and building companies.

All artwork was printed full colour with a spot green to get a fresh solid finish.

June 18, 2010
Print, design, liverpool | No Comments »

SA Logistics Website design and build

iprogress have completed a website for a premium express delivery consignment company.

With over 25 years industry experience, S.A. Logistics expertise is concentrated in offering bespoke logistical solutions to organisations within highly specialised sectors, industries that include pharmaceutical, clinical research, aerospace, and hi-tech among many others. Their services are of a prioritised nature, level of expertise is focused on shipments in the time/ temperature critical categories, all services provided are tailor made and planned in detail to suit a company’s requirements.

Allow them to provide you with a step by step solution to all your logistical needs.
www.sa-logistics.co.uk

April 15, 2010
design, development, programming, website | No Comments »

Kitesurfing Blog

We have just setup a new kitesurfing blog on our new server. The blog uses WordPress and was easy  to install and configure. Now that are servers are running Apache we can easily configure search engine friendly URLs.

Anyway have a look at the blog @ www.kitesurfingkitesandboards.co.uk

March 26, 2010
blog, general | 1 Comment »

Leading carpet & upholstery cleaner gets ecommerce

Advance Chem-Dry, a company that has been established for over 12 years have had the iprogress treatment, as we launched a new ecommerce site that they can manage using the iprogress content management system!

They offer specialist carpet and upholstery cleaning and guarantee excellent workmanship with their team of skilled and experienced technicians and fleet of fully equipped vans.

You can check out Advance Chemdry’s website and products here: www.advancechemdry.co.uk

March 16, 2010
content management, design, development, general, website | No Comments »

Photoshop is 20 years old

Our favourite photo editing software: Adobe Photoshop turned 20 this week.

Back in 1987,  Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, started playing with greyscale digital images on a monochrome display. His brother, John, soon joined him and together they came up with the image editing software.

This week, John (now a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic) said: ‘It’s endlessly amusing to see how much it has permeated popular culture. It really is everywhere. You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop. And it started out with Tom and I screwing around with it as a hobby. It was the right product at the right time.’

View the Photoshop 20th year celebration website or pop over to the photoshop website and throw a picture or two about or visit Photoshop Disasters to see how NOT to do it ;o)

February 19, 2010
general | No Comments »

Cybrand redesign gets revved up!

iprogress were asked to redesign and build the new Cybrand website.

Cybrand is a market-leading manufacturer and distributor of Automotive Exhaust products, Industrial Silencers and Emission Control technologies for diesel and petrol engines.

Alongside their products, they offer expert technical advice, a comprehensive installation and support service, and a dedicated bespoke design department.

Check out their website here: www.cybrand.co.uk

February 1, 2010
design, general, website | No Comments »

Virtual Assistants

The more your business grows, the more administrative tasks you have; the more time you spend on administrative tasks, the less time you have to generate new business.

Virtual Assistants or VA’s help you manage the everyday running of your companies administrative tasks. You need to calculate how much your time is worth. Carrying out inconsequential administrative tasks yourself does not add value to your business. One solution is to delegate those less profitable tasks by hiring someone professional capable of completing them for you, but whose hourly rate at a cost effective rate.

This is where the Virtual Assistant come into play, an invaluable economic new work force that provides a practical solution for small businesses owners. A virtual assistant frees up your precious time so you can focus on growing your business and exploring new leads.

Virtual assistants don’t need office space or even to live in the same town or city. All communication in through email; telephone, fax or post and web-based tools such as instant messengers and online calendars and planners. This not only makes economical sense but is also environmentally friendly with the removal of the daily commute.

Other advantages include

• Virtual assistants are self-employed, and invoices you only for the actual hours worked or by tasks completed.
• When you hire a VA you get all the benefits of outsourcing – no employer liabilities, tax and benefits issues, coupled with the loyalty and steadiness of a company executive personal assistant.
• Your virtual assistant can return telephone calls, answer e-mails, and draft letters for you.
• Virtual assistants can run your diary, manage your post, design your next presentation, book your doctor’s appointment and even arrange those presents for your spouse that you forget every year!

As we more and more and more of our business and personal lives communications to the Internet, remote working and virtual assistants are becoming the obvious solution to managing our time and resources. Especially when the hourly cost is less than the cost of temporary staff or the real cost of employing someone and all the legislation and time that takes its even more of an attractive proposition.

January 28, 2010
Call Handling, Virtual Assistant | 1 Comment »

Internet Explorer 6 – time to go!

Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most complex issues when it comes to web-development. Web standards are usually consistent, however no browser is perfect and particularly older browsers continually surprise us with their ‘creative’ rendering of (X)HTML/CSS-code. Internet explorer 6 is the ‘king of thorns’ in a coders side (11% of users still in Dec 09) and version 8 has been upon us for nearly a year. Still we need to make sure that all visitors to your web-site have the same experience, so testing code can sometimes be an frustrating event at iprogress towers and the ‘swear box’ donations can certainly mount up.

So this week we read with interest a little article that hopefully may force sensible people to upgrade:

Certa, a French agency that studies cyber attacks, yesterday warned users against all versions of IE and advised them to switch to browsers such as Firefox or Google Chrome.

Microsoft insisted Internet Explorer 8 was the ‘most secure browser on the market’. The company admitted last week that a previously unknown flaw in its browser was the weak link used in attacks by hackers who attempted to break into the e-mail accounts of human rights activists in China. It insisted that general users were not at risk.

Cliff Evans, head of security and privacy, said that only the older Internet Explorer 6 was targeted in the attack. Surfers visiting a compromised website could see their computer infected by a ‘Trojan horse’, allowing criminals to take control of the computer and steal information.

There has been a growing effort by many organisations in recent years to persuade users to stop using the outdated Internet Explorer 6, which many feel causes security issues and is impeding the development of the web.

January 20, 2010
development, general, programming | 2 Comments »