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Some of the latest updates from Addictivity, what we're up to, who we're working with, all that kind of thing...

Titan Launch into Orbit

We’ve been working with Titan over the last few months to help create a brand and a website to offer their new building and property maintenance services. The site is aimed at both commercial and residential clients offering everything from home decorating to commercial property maintenance services. The clean and simple site showcases their services and uses a bespoke CMS to allow them to fully manage their website themselves. Built using our own sCMS framework the site is built around a solid, secure code-base that is a platform for all their additional requirements that will be developing over the coming years. As…

Five Three Entertainment

Music is definitely one of our things here at Addictivity, and we love working with musicians of all shapes and sizes. Subliminal Records through to MTV, we’ve had a taste of a few different sides of the industry. So we were delighted to be appointed by newly formed Five Three Entertainment recently, a specialist entertainment company of producers and composers based in Guernsey. We were tasked with branding and website design and development and are really rather chuffed with the results. The site features an audio and video portfolio to showcase some of their work, and a CMS to boot. Hopefully…

Sartorius Designs

We almost let this one slip through the net – we were asked to work on designs earlier this year for the new Sartorius website. Sartorius are a huge international laboratory and process technology manufacturer, based out of Germany, working across both biotechnology and mechatronics. The employ over 4,500 staff worldwide and in 2010 turned over 659 million Euros. So not a small company, and a website redesign project that’s right up there with some of the larger projects we have worked on. We were invited to design website concepts for the group site and were really delighted with the results.…

Diamond In The Rough

We’re excited about working this month with Herold Diamonds to produce a beautiful new site selling tailored diamond engagement rings. The site allows you to choose the details of each component part, selecting from a vast range of individual diamonds, and specifying requirements down to the very last detail. You can then select a ring setting to go with your diamond, and buy the complete perfect ring. We’re going for style and simplicity in what would be a complex search and selection process making the choice simple and quick and with elegant use of jQuery throughout, a real treat of a…

Boom! Goes Live

We’re happy today to say the new site for Boom! Has gone live. Not just because we can finally get ourselves down to their new indoor cycling studio and burn off some of that post-holiday flab, oh no. But because it’s a great example of a bespoke design and build, featuring a full content management system and booking system. Check it out – the site brief was always to have a street edge about it and I feel the result is bang on. The CMS allows the client to run the bookings, the classes, have access to all members, and generally manage…

New Case Studies

In a new series of case studies we’re aiming to bring you closer to the project process involved with website design and development, and over time some of our online marketing campaigns too. We’re very lucky to have worked with some amazing clients, both large and small and hope to build up a series of these case studies that will hopefully give you a glimpse of what it’s like to work with Addictivity. We’re getting the ball rolling with a recent project we worked on for Exponential-e. I hope you find it interesting! Case study: Exponential-e…

Welcome to G3

We’re delighted to welcome to G3 Network Services into the Addictivity fold – having recently won their online marketing account. We’ll be working with G3 Network Services delivering a targeted search engine optimisation campaign, PPC management and also running a social media marketing campaign. It’s exciting to work within a familiar sector with an extensive online marketing campaign, having had such success recently with similar campaigns for the likes of Calyx, CIT, and Discover Dynamics. We’re all looking forward to getting down to the nitty gritty of keyword research and site audits, and setting campaign targets to really help drive targeted traffic through…

TPSi come back for more

Here at Addictivity, we love it when clients feel they can keep coming back and push us to design and develop ever-more challenging projects time and again. Such is the case with TPSi. After designing their new site earlier this year, with a bespoke CMS, we’ve now been tasked with a really rather interesting project. The challenge is to develop a bespoke survey system. TPSi offer a service to their clients for very specialist research involving feedback from hundreds of heathcare professionals, and the new survey system will be a very clever and feature rich system for collecting data for their HealthBrain…

Planet Photos Pitch Perfect

I’m happy to report we have recently been chosen to work on the Planet Photos account, having won a recent pitch. The project involves branding and website design for Planet Photos, to help highlight their extensive picture library. The simple site will feature a bespoke CMS and aim to highlight the quality of the photos by featuring a jQuery section on the homepage allowing us to show off recent images in a fading main image area, also allowing the user to see a caption for each photo when hovering over any of the images. What this space, the site will be going…

Mobile App Site gets Addict Treatment

After working closely with Swiftkey and the parent company TouchType for the last few years we were delighted to be asked to redesign the Swiftkey site recently. Swiftkey is one of the top apps on the Android platform, and the number 1 keyboard app in the marketplace. It is also the world’s first ‘Social AI’ keyboard! Designing a website to promote a mobile application has its own challenges, and we had a clear brief to hit with a distinct market to deign for. The site sells the app and it’s advantages well with big bold imagery and extensive use of jQuery. We’re also…

Planning for Success

When we were asked to pitch for the TPSi redesign earlier this year we’ll admit to being a little daunted! TPSi are specialist healthcare market research consultants, and at first glance, it’s a fairly complicated area to work in! We were however delighted to win the project and have thouroughly enjoyed working closely with them this year to produce a new website that is proving successful across the board. We were asked to redesign the site and bring the company’s online strategy up-to-date, and have been working with our copywriter of choice to help bring a complicated subject to life, in an…

Red Hot Website Design

We’ve been approached by Red Hot Careers to inject a new lease of life into the recruitment consultancy, working on a rebranding and redesign project in the Summer of 2011. The project incorporates a new feature rich site aiming to elevate Red Hot above its competitors. As a specialist recruitment consultancy in the spa and leisure industry, Red Hot offer recruitment services across permanent, senior, international and contract appointments. The website is a bespoke build based on our in-house sCMS content management system, featuring full search, profiles, employer log in and control panel among many of the features developed leaving the site fully…

Was that really it?

Where’s the summer gone? If you’re anything like us, then you’ll be wandering what happened to the summer? Sure we’ve been mad busy, but is that really it? We’ve barely had enough Magners yet! It’s been a busy period for us, we’ve moved office, launched many a new website and taken on a few new client accounts to boot. We’re not complaining of course, but this is supposed to be a quite period for us... We’re delighted to have been chosen by the amazing marketing consultancy KAE to work with them producing an incredible finance modelling application – currently keeping us awake at…

Trading Up

We’ve been working on a new site for the Fractional Life team, called Fractional Trade, a business focused portal for the fractional industry. The site will feature the latest news and events from the world of fractional, but also allow user generated content from the advertisers, all contributing to the news portal, keeping it up to date from all angles. As well as the user generated content side of things, the site aims to be a central networking point for the industry allowing free membership and a Fractional Links directory for members to post their own profile on and network with…

Text Revolution

SwiftKey launched their new website this week as they prepare for the beta launch of their revolutionary text prediction engine for smartphones. We were asked by SwiftKey to redesign and build their site based around their text prediction engine developed for smart phones, with the need to simply highlight the features and provide information around how to use the software. SwiftKey enables you to write up to 50% faster on your phone, predicting up to a third of your next words instantly, while all the time learning and adapting to you and your text habits. The client’s been delighted with the results and…

Reaching Out For Growth

We’re pleased to announce we have been appointed by the Reach Group to work with them on their online marketing, starting with a redesign and development of the main company website. Reach are a market leading property investment company, specialising in emerging high growth property markets. We’re looking forward to working with Reach with the new site and bespoke content management system, and helping them bring in targeted traffic to the new site.…

Luxury Brand Thomas Lyte Chooses Specialist SEO Agency

We have been selected to take on the online marketing account for the luxury English brand Thomas Lyte, tasked with driving forward their internet strategy and ultimately increasing targeted traffic and the conversion rates on the ecommerce site. We’re looking at providing search engine optimisation across a range of highly competitive keyword targets, and advising on social media strategy and implementation techniques. As well as this we are now managing their PPC campaign, and are really looking forward to seeing the site grow as a result of this activity over the next year. We have extremely ambitious targets and will be looking…

Goscomb Refresh

Technology company Goscomb came to us towards the end of 2009 for a refresh on their brand and website, to help take the business forward into 2010. Being a hosting company they need to be at the cutting edge, and were looking for a more modern and fresh approach and have been delighted with our design solutions. We provided design only for these guys as they have an in-house development team taking care of the site production, so watch this space for the new site coming shortly. …

Gites Direct Go Big

We have been chosen to work with new holiday company Gites Direct to bring a new comprehensive website directory to French holiday makers looking for quality holiday rentals. This extensive project will deliver their new site early in 2010, and we’ll be working with them not only on ongoing site developments but online marketing covering SEO, PPC Management and Broadcast email. It’s an exciting one and we can’t wait to see the new site go live in the Spring.…

Esporta Dominating

It’s the busiest time of year for one of our largest clients, the health and fitness chain Esporta. Having just launched the latest version of the site before Christmas, we’re looking forward to seeing the website take the business to new levels in 2010. The last year saw us reach all of our online marketing targets, hitting over 1,000 number one positions across the major UK search engines! This year we’re continuing to focus on local search across the 55 health clubs and expand our keyword target range to further increase traffic to the ever expanding website. …

Classic Car Experiences

One of our longest running clients, the Classic Car Club, have approached us about a new site specifically targeting Classic Car ‘Experiences’. A slightly different idea to the main club website, but one that we will be working on for them over the coming months. We are proud to have been working for the Classic Car Club now for over eight years, and looking forward to working with them on this new exciting project.…