Web Design | Plump Digital

20 Jan 2012

Christmas Aftermath

Now that we’re well into January it seems like a good time to do a quick round up of what we got up to towards the back-end of last year. While the 3 months from October through December were our most productive to date, we made sure we had plenty of fun working on some Christmas campaigns to keep us in a festive mood.

The Rizla Advent Giveaway was a resounding success attracting more than 20 times the amount of web traffic we’d usually expect to see in an average month. We reached 20,000 twitter timelines within 12 hours of go-live and in a single month increased Rizla’s subscriber database by 75%.

In amongst this, we also managed to

Launch 3 websites for a global leader in the manufacture of animal nutrition additives: Anpario, Optivite & Kiotechagil.
Develop a flash-based Christmas card for a prominent Manchester design agency
Pick up a brief to develop a series of mobile apps for a high-profile Northern Utilities company
Convince York St John University that we are the right web design studio to support their 2012 marketing activities

All in all we had a, great finish to a successful year which has lead on to a very promising start to 2012

9 Jun 2011

Bring the button back!

Last week I stumbled across a new iPhone accessory from the clever people at Beep Industries. They’ve designed an attachment that adds a camera button and grip like you used to have on pre-digital-revolution cameras making it easier to snap the perfect picture on your iPhone.

Within seconds of looking on the Red Pop website I decided I needed to get one and was then introduced to the world of Kickstarter. Kickstarter is a website that invites people to back new ideas and ventures by pledging an amount of money. This is fantastic way of reducing the burden of risk associated with bringing new products and ideas to market by testing potential uptake before committing to manufacturing expenses.

Each project has a target amount of money and a time-frame in which to raise it. Red Pop was only a day or so into its campaign and had already reached half the target backing – pretty amazing! I backed it with a pledge that guarantees me one of the first Red Pops to be manufactured and a couple of hours later the target was met only 2 days into the process!

Clear proof of a fantastic idea – proven using the power of the web and social media.

27 May 2011

Rizla welcomes the summer with a brand new website

The New Rizla Website

We’re proud to announce a brand new addition to our growing portfolio – the all new Rizla website developed in collaboration with Original Online, Third Rock and Khanh Tu.

The focal point of the website is the Rizla Player which pulls together hours of exclusive tunes, video interviews and photography gathered from years of Rizla parties and festivals into an innovative media player featured on the home page. Current Plump favorites are Greg Wilson (Rizla Riverboat Shuffle 2009) and Gruff Rhys (Lovebox 2009).

Have a look for yourself »

3 Mar 2011

A new website for Business Advantage

We’ve just launched a new website for Business Advantage – a joint venture between Sheffield Hallam and Sheffield University.

Business Advantage Website by Plump Digital

As a progression from the original brand launch site we built back in June 2010, the site is now focused on communicating the unique Business Advantage offering and daily operations much more clearly.

By implementing a powerful Content Management System (CMS), team members from both Sheffield Hallam and Sheffield University have a host of intuitive content management tools at their fingertips to ensure their website is kept up to date easily and cost effectively. We’ve also re-designed the navigation system, calls to action and colour palette to accommodate the additional content and enhance the user experience whilst remaining true to brand guidelines.

Built around the Silverstripe CMS framework, we’ve been able to implement a completely bespoke site structure, set of page templates and call-to-action system to allow Business Advantage a huge amount of flexibilty and control within a site that remains functional and user friendly throughout.

Key features of the CMS include:

Full site content management
Course management
News & events
Promo-panel manager
Data trap / contact form
Image library & manager
User group & permissions management

We can’t show you around the CMS, but if you’re interested to know more about it, click here. Otherwise, feel free to have a look around the new Business Advantage site – it’s at www.business-advantage.org

28 Jan 2011

A blast from the past

We we’re just having a crawl of the web as we often do on a Friday and we stumbled across the very first commercial project we ever did together. It’s still online after 10 years!!!

a blast from the past

In our second year at uni, our former lecturer and friend invited us to have a crack at translating his design consultancy’s printed brochure into an interactive presentation to feature on his website.

This was back in 2001 when flash was coming of age as a tool for creating engaging websites and pushing the boundaries of interactivity and user experience. Designing websites was all about experimenting with new ways to navigate and interact with content and it was this aspect of the digital communications revolution that hooked us in.

With inspiration drawn from the nokia snakes game and the dot-com-boom poster-child agency Deepend, this project was a playground for us to develop our skills in flash, get some commercial experience and some extra beer money. It’s nice to think it’s still out there on the web.

To have a look for yourself, click here and then on to “02. Open to View”. Enjoy!

13 Jan 2011

New year, new website, new win

Welcome to our new website. It’s been a long time coming and the turn of the new year is a perfect time to launch our new website and to announce one of our biggest wins to date – the complete redesign and development of the Kiotech group of companies’ websites

We have an opportunity to get right to the core of how this leading multinational animal nutrition company operates, how it’s different brands communicate with their audiences and to deliver an online strategy developed in partnership with our newest client

Watch this space