19 May

Bit of Web Design in Altrincham for HSH

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Every now and then we get a distress call from a potential client, who has been let down by an existing agency, and are not happy with the progress of a project they have commissioned.

The special red Bat phone started ringing one morning, and we took a call from a local business who were near suicidal, after they had been repeatedly let down by a company redesigning their website, and they were really at the end of their tether. We sat down with the potential client, did a detailed spec of what they were looking for, created a detailed brief for the project and passed it to the client. They were initially sceptical that we could turn the project around in the timeframe we had detailed, but they decided to give oomagoo a go.

It’s not that often, from our experience, that you get clients in the design game who are actually up for a project which they have got you in to do, and actually know what they want and are prepared to allow your team to actually do what you do best, without sticking their oars in every 5 minutes. Enter the team at HSH (www.hsh.co.uk). From initial site wireframes, we got straight into the designs, and then within a heartbeat the guys were coding the site.

Initial Wireframe Design for www.hsh.co.uk

We decided to build the whole site on a Word Press framework, as we know that this would make the backend easy for HSH to use, and as such, it would mean they would use it. There is no point having an amazing looking web site, but them making it so complicated to use, that the client pulls their hair out every time they need to add something to the site. Also, with Word Press, it means that the client isn’t beholden to us, but can pretty much take the site to any half decent Word Press developer to continue work on, if we ever fell out. Thankfully we haven’t, and thankfully we hardly ever do.

So we now have a very happy client in Altrincham, who has a smart looking, very easy to use site, which will actually become a hard working business toll for them, and not a source of embarrassment for being so out of date.

And to make a great relationship even better, HSH are now referring oomagoo to all of their clients, who may need a new web presence for a new business they may have bought from them.

Great client, great to work with and a great business. A real pleasure.

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12 Jan

Gett MLS all ready for BETT 2011 with love from oomagoo

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Every year we are caught out by the arrival of BETT, which is the UK’s largest technology educational trade show.

One of our favourite clients (just in case they are reading this) are one of the main exhibitors at the show; so every November / December before we start the scribbles, brain storming we are filled with the sheer panic of getting something ready for them by the  January show deadline.

You can forget turkey at Christmas; it’s scaled down Adobe Illustrator files, being rendered on an imaginary stand the size of a small country. We have to consider so many of the following points:

• It needs to look better than the year before.
• It needs to show the brand off in its best light.
• Needs to allow them to hide their coats.
• They all need somewhere to sit when their feet are hurting.
• Need somewhere for clients to sit down and be shown the products.
• Easy access to the nearest coffee shop / bar

When we do have a look and feel that works, its firing over the designs to the client to “tweak” and then for us to basically rejig all of the work we have done. We rejig, resend and then rejig. Then comes the dealings with the stand printers, who this year were brilliant. Toby (from Expositionists), if you are reading this, you were a star

But we’re here to do a job, so we must get it bang on, and this year we’re please to announce (this photo is from the client) that we have done it again for another year.

So we’re about to get the turkey out of the fridge, and a few bottles of red. If anyone hasn’t had enough of Christmas and fancies popping round, please feel free…..

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