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News 13/04/2010
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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!
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.
Times Online features SeatPlans.com – twice!
News 02/10/2008
Wow. We’ve just launched SeatPlans.com, a brand new web app for frequent flyers, and the Times Online has featured it twice already! Traffic shot through the roof and forums have been brimming with positive feedback. We’d actually hoped for a quiet bedding in period, but it seems the flyers don’t want to wait!
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Dropsend sold, Guardian blogs
News 28/09/2008
A very exciting time for loft and our old friends at Carsonified. We can confirm that DropSend has been acquired by Webminds, Inc, in the US, for an undisclosed sum.
DropSend is a web app for sending large files – up to 1GB – which loft owner Nick Nettleton built for Carsonified during 2005 and 2006. It was an immediate success, winning praise and great reviews, as well as turning a profit, from day one. Ry Carson sold the application so he could focus on the core, expanding areas of his business – primarily events.
Matchbox now available in multi-site edition
News 19/08/2008
After several months of brow-sweating, brain-crunching work, our content and ecommerce platform, Matchbox, is now available in a fully integrated, multi-site edition. This has enabled us to add a raft of exciting new business functionality, using the power of centralised data:
- Share content and data across sites however you like
- Offer users a single login across all your websites
- View and manage performance reports, user data and sales centrally
- Quickly create whitelabel sites for business partnerships and niche markets
- Manage and monitor client advertising campaigns across all your sites
We’ll be rolling these features out over a number of sites for our publishing and ecommerce clients over the coming months. If you need to improve website management technology for your company, please give us a call for a friendly chat.
LiveChart – dynamic charts for web apps
News 17/12/2007
Web app interfaces are great, but few in the industry have got to grips with charts and graphs. All those rows and columns are so much more meaningful when you can bring out the salient points in just a couple of charts. And the web, with its dynamic, easy-flow-of-info nature, should be a natural home for this.
There are a few good web charting kits out there, but none of them have really hit the nail on the head for us in terms of automation, intelligence and pure visual splendour. So guess what? We wrote our own, and we’ve named it LiveChart.
