Loft in Design Week
News 07/05/2009
The lovely people over at Design Week have given Loft a shout in this week's edition, out this morning, with a news story about our upcoming website for Crisis, the homeless charity. The story's on their website too - read it here.
More great ratings for SeatPlans.com
News 29/04/2009
The Times seems to have taken quite a shine to our still-in-beta site SeatPlans.com. It's featured this month in The best websites for booking flights, and back in December in The 20 best (and worst) travel websites of 2008 - on the "best" side of that equation, before you ask. We're really rather chuffed, as is our client Panacea for whom we launched the site.
Keep an eye out over coming months as we move the site out of beta with some rather exciting new features for all!
New site for the Digital Artist Awards 2009!
Our work 09/04/2009
We've just launched a rather exciting and colourful new website for the Digital Artist Awards 2009, sponsored by Intel and organised by the publisher of Computer Arts, .net, 3DWorld and ImagineFX magazines.
It's a great honour for us to be invited to build the site for this high profile industry event.
Pro and amateur designers, animators and FX supremos worldwide can register and upload their favourite works, together details about how they created them and team photos. There's even a 'Rising Stars' category open to under-16's, and a range of inspirational live masterclasses, kicked off by Dave Gibbons of Watchmen fame.
New features for the National Equipment Register
Our work 20/03/2009
TER, The National Equipment Register, is the UK’s register of lost and stolen plant machinery. It provides a registration service, and a checking service for those buying such equipment to check that it has not been registered as stolen – a bigger problem than you’d imagine.
Sage 200 integration for Cyclescheme
Our work 28/02/2009
Pushing on with our end-to-end automation of Cyclescheme's online business processes, we have just completed a full integration from their extranet to Sage 200. This is enabling the company to handle a rapidly growing volume of business as they continue to win accounts with some of the UK’s largest employers. They will be able to process accounts in minutes, rather than hours, and with less risk of manual error.
New Matchbox sales reports
Our work 20/01/2009
We have just completed a brand new sales reports application for Matchbox, our platform for ecommerce, online publishing and digital marketing.
It’s packed with lovely charts and graphs that enable you to view sales volumes, conversion rates and demographics. And you can break these down for individual products and promotions, to accurately monitor the commercial success of your marketing activities.
Online hire agreements for Cyclescheme
Our work 06/01/2009
Cyclescheme enables you to buy a bike through your employer completely tax free, under a government scheme, saving many people about half the cost. Most spread the cost of the purchase over year, coming direct out of their pay packet, under a hire-purchase arrangement. This has been fairly labour-intensive to organise, as all the HP contracts need to be personalised, printed, sent out, tracked until return, recorded, and then archived, before bike vouchers can be issued.
Homeless World Cup live from Melbourne!
News 03/12/2008
Last Thursday we waved (a temporary) goodbye to Loft Project Manager and technical wizard Woody, as he set off for Melbourne to manage a live online reporting operation throughout the tournament.
We've been busy over the last few weeks getting everything ready - with the home page featuring live match reports, photos, movies and user content, as well as round-by-round fixtures and results.
New website coming for Crisis
News 17/11/2008
Exciting news at loft this month - we've just won a pitch to design a new website for Crisis, the homeless charity.
Crisis is all about individuals and actions that have a lasting impact on their lives. So we'll be looking at new ways to use the web to get politicians, the media, campaigners, fundraisers and volunteers involved in this vital work, and connect them directly with the individual stories that relate to their actions.
Top marks for Homeless World Cup website
News 13/10/2008
We were chuffed when we heard about this review of the Homeless World Cup site in Third Sector, an industry journal for that market. We had no idea they were covering it, until it was pointed out to us in a pitch earlier this week. Yay! Get involved at www.homelessworldcup.org.
