Vimto Trade
Vimto Trade is a dedicated website for the shop owners and retailers who stock and sell Vimto Soft Drinks. After registering, the site Offers the user a range of personalised product information, profit calculators, competitions, savings and freebies, managed by the administrative backend suite of utilities.
Status: Live at www.vimtotrade.co.uk
Rock Radio Download Festival
The Official Rock Radio Download Festival Portal, promoting a mix of live news, gossip, videos, and more. NSDesign were asked to build the portal, and load it up with goodies including live Twitter feeds, Flickr Feeds, Band Listings, stage times, and of course the actual live radio stream from the event itself - all managed by the Rock Radio team from their mobile studio live at Donington Park! This is a feature packed site, combined with a great design - all the more impressive when we reveal it was built in just over 1 week!!
Status: Live at www.downloadfestivalradio.com
Accord Hospice
Accord Hospice in Paisley is an established charity which provides free Medical and Nursing Care to Renfrewshire. NSDesign revamped the old Hospice website to boost donations by allowing supporters to donate online. The website has been transformed into a user-friendly, interactive space for patients, carers and supporters.
Status: Live at www.accordhospice.org.uk
Advanced Preservation Specialists (APS)
APS are a well established company, centrally located in Glasgow offering professional advice on Rising Damp, Condensation control and Timber Preservation. Fully content managed by the APS team using NSBuilder, this newly designed promotional site provides a wealth of information to new and existing clients.
Status: Live at www.advancedpreservation.co.uk
Skelmorlie Golf Club
NSDesign were commissioned to build a new online identity for the Skelmorlie Golf Club, an established 18 hole private golf course situated on the West Coast of Scotland. Includes our NSBuilder back-end allowing the club to update every aspect of the site and custom events diary, in addition to newly designed course "strokesaver" graphics.
Status: Live at www.skelmorliegolf.co.uk
NSDesign 10th Birthday Microsite
A Dedicated event microsite to promote NSDesign's 10th birthday party and prize giveaway. The bespoke registration system allows visitors to register for the chance to win a new car, while the backend automates the random selection process and more.
Status: Live at www.nsdesign.co.uk/win
Braehead Grotto
It's always nice to get a celebrity client to work with, and they don't come much bigger than Santa! Father Christmas and his elves approached NSDesign to help streamline operations at the Braehead Shopping Centre Grotto (arguably Scotland's largest Christmas Grotto) by introducing a bespoke online booking system. Status: Live at www.braeheadgrotto.co.uk
Scottish Sweetie Shop
A local family-run ecommerce site selling tablet, toffee, traditional Scottish Sweets and childhood favourites. Designed in true Willy-Wonka style, this sugar-sweet design showcases the wide range of confectionary and offers worldwide delivery. Fully content managed by the owners, the site validates to accessibility standards. Status: Live at www.scottishsweetieshop.co.uk
Jessica Boo
An exclusive online boutique for the fashion conscious baby and Mummy, JessicaBoo is a high quality ecommerce website dedicated to showcasing high quality products. In addition to the web design and development, NSDesign also designed the company logo (and range of complementary illustrations) used throughout the site and on all product packaging. Status: Live at www.jessicaboo.com
Children's Classic Concerts
For fifteen years Children's Classic Concerts have been delighting families and school parties with their fun-filled introduction to live orchestral music. CCC approached NSDesign to help design and develop a new-look web presence with a strong focus on marketing the season's 4 upcoming concerts.Status: Live at www.childrensclassicconcerts.co.uk
McAteer Photograph
McAteer Photograph are arguably Glasgow's most successful commercial Photography company, creating fresh and exciting images of product, people or services. This "image led" site is driven by a desire to showcase beautiful images, both in the Bespoke Gallery, and also in the general site pages.
Status: Live at www.mcateerphoto.com
Greenock Morton Football Club
As Official Web Supplier to Greenock Morton, NSDesign designed and developed a new official team website, and continue to provide ongoing web hosting and consultancy services. The new site features squad profiles, fixtures, club news and more - all managed by a suite of bespoke admin tools based on our NSBuilder platform.
Status: Live at www.gmfc.net
The Male Sanctuary
The Male Sanctuary provides an exciting and desirable range of clothing and grooming products for men. NSDesign designed and developed a bespoke ecommerce website, integrated with the client's online payment solution.Status: Live at www.malesanctuary.co.uk
School Leaders Scotland
Formerly known as the Headteachers' Association of Scotland, School Leaders Scotland (SLS) is the only professional association which exclusively represents Heads and Depute Heads in secondary schools with over 630 members. This custom designed site features an array of advanced features including a Member's Only Intranet and full backend admin capabilities through a customised version of our NSBuilder platform.Status: Live at www.sls-scotland.org.uk
AMK Self Drive
AMK is one of Glasgow's leading Vehicle Rental Companies and a well recognised brand in Scotland. NSDesign helped improve their existing web presence, resulting in a fully self-managed system. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) was key to the re-development, with the new site ranking at the top of Google for the majority of it's target keywords.Status: Live at www.amkselfdrive.co.uk
Go Wiild with Andy Murray
A competition "microsite" developed for Highland Spring giving users a chance to win a Nintendo Wii, as well as play tennis with Britain's No.1 tennis player, Andy Murray. Featuring embedded video from YouTube, as well as links to Andy Murray's own site, the customised entry form allows users to enter once every hour.Status: Site Offline
Scottish Specialty Foods
Scottish Specialty Foods (SSF) are employed by the finest Scottish food companies to export their speciality and gourmet products around the world. They chose NSDesign to help design and build a website that would allow them to showcase their product range, while giving them the backend admin capabilities to fully update the site at any time. Designed with a subtle Scottish flavour the site is standards compliant and utilises our NSBuilder platform.
Status: Live at www.s-s-f.com
The Next Step Strategic Solutions
TNSSS is a business-to-business professional services provider, specialising in strategic marketing. This information driven site is fully managed by the site administrator using a customised NSBuilder backend and includes advanced features like a secure private client login.
Status: Live at www.market-driven.com
Centrum Offices
Centrum Offices is one of Scotland's largest privately owned and managed Business Centres. Recently updated with a fresh new modern design, the Centrum team can update the content on a daily basis - simply and quickly. Built to Accessibility standards, this site is fully managed using the NSBuilder platform.
Status: Live at www.centrum-offices.com
iRevise
iRevise is an innovative study aid download site, allowing students to download helpful mp3 based study information. The irevise content has been prepared by professional educationalists (based on the curriculum set by the SQA) and is recorded by an expert voice artist. This bespoke ecommerce website developed by NSDesign allows individual students, as well as entire schools, to buy and download material which is delivered electronically.
Status: Live at www.irevise.info
MalawianMP3.com
MalawianMP3.com is the brainchild of budding entrepreneur Dumisani Kapanga, and exists to promote Malawian Music to the world. This ecommerce site allows users to register, and purchase mp3 downloads of some of Malawi’s greatest musical talents, and features RSS entertainment news feeds from Nyasa Times (one of Malawi’s best news sites) and the BBC. As well as designing the site NSDesign provide full backend capabilities to self-manage all aspects of the site and administer the digital downloads.
Status: Live at www.MalawianMP3.com
Scottish Rocks Basketball
As Official Web Partner to the Rocks (Scotland's only professional Basketball team based at Braehead, Glasgow), NSDesign are responsible for the design, development and ongoing management of the team's website. The site features regularly updated Rocks news, Results and Fixtures, full online Shopping, Image Galleries and "Rocks TV" exclusive Videos. Following the redesign from NSDesign, the Rocks have increased advance online ticket bookings by a massive 500%.
Status: Live at www.scottishrocks.co.uk
Carbon Passport
Carbon Passport allows individuals and businesses to offset their carbon footprints by purchasing carbon credits which are then invested into emission reduction projects in developing countries. Working closely with the Glasgow based team of energy industry consultants, NSDesign developed a range of bespoke "carbon calculators", using a wide mix of technologies such as AJAX, sIFR and Dynamic PDF Generation, all integrated with full ecommerce facilities.
Status: Live at www.carbonpassport.com
The Angus Group
Renfrewshire asbestos removal company - The Angus Group, contacted NSDesign to help create a fresh new website to promote their specialist services. Built around our NSBuilder Platform, this xHTML/CSS site features a modern design with clean navigation and layout. As always, full content management is provided including News Administration and Image Management.
Status: Live at www.theangusgroup.com
SpeechMag
SpeechMag is the website for UK Magazine "Speech & Language Therapy in Practice" and has been designed for speech and language therapists, and people with an interest in the profession. It features a members only "social networking" platform, allowing users to communicate and share resources, as well as a database of abstracts and online magazine subscription.
Status: Live at www.speechmag.com
Pearson Cars
Pearsons is one of Scotland’s largest independent car dealerships, offering a range of new and second hand vehicles from their showrooms at Wemyss Bay and Largs. The new website design features an advanced integrated stock database, full content management, Image Gallery (using Lightbox and AJAX), and Quicktime interactive panoramas of the showrooms.
Status: Live at www.pearsoncars.com
Q4 Consulting
Q4 consulting advises businesses on employee engagement, communication, branding and research. The new site focuses on user interaction, with a registered members area, online polls, and downloadable resources. Fully managed using our NSBuilder system, it's also fully integrated with our NSMail email campaign management system.
Status: Live at www.q4consulting.com
Weatherproofing Advisors
Weatherproofing Advisors are recognised as the market leader in the provision of roofing contracting & consultancy services. Their old site did not match up to their reputation, so NSDesign were commissioned to design and build an accessible, standards compliant site with advanced "intranet" functionality and content management.
Status: Live at www.weatherproofing.co.uk
Pro Shop Direct
As the premier online golf shop in the UK Pro Shop Direct offer great discounts on a huge range of golf equipment from leading manufacturers. Fully managed by PGA qualified staff using the secure administrative content management system, this premium ecommerce website features a number of advanced features and validates to accessibility standards.
Status: Live at www.proshopdirect.co.uk
Scottish Holiday Homes
The Scottish Holiday Homes website features an online directory of holiday accommodation in Scotland. The bespoke automated system allows advertisers to instantly market their homes, and is integrated with online payment. This XHTML/CSS compliant site is fully self-managed by the owners using a customised version of NSBuilder.
Status: Live at www.scottish-holiday-homes.com
1p Meal
1pmeal.com offers affordable meals through the site's unique "reverse bidding" system, whereby the winner will never pay more than 1 penny. This bespoke site features complete backend administration using a customised version of our NSBuilder system, and allows the restaurants and registered users to fully manage their own accounts and post new meals direct to the site.
Status: Live at www.1pmeal.com
1st Golf
1st Golf sells Golf equipment and accessories direct from a small range of quality suppliers at affordable prices, and has quickly established a name for itself in this market. Offering full ecommerce facilities with integrated online payment, this standards compliant site is fully managed by the proprietor.
Status: Live at www.1stgolf.com
Breast Feeding Heaven
An ecommerce site with the aim of providing Breastfeeding mums with the products they require to continue breastfeeding, at a very competitive price. This site is a custom modification of a commercial e-commerce package, and allows complete client administration through the available back-end tools.
Status: Live at www.breastfeedingheaven.co.uk
Cardwell Garden Centre
The Cardwell Garden and Nursery Centre website is effectively 2 sites in 1. It features an informational site, with content specific to the many departments and activities the centre offers. It also features a full ecommerce site, allowing the public to buy direct.Status: Live at www.cardwellnurseries.com
Les Grands Arbres
The promotional website of a newly renovated gîtes complex within Sainte Même, France. Built using valid XHTML, CSS and PHP, the entire site is managed via a bespoke admin system which includes full page and image management. Status: Live at www.lesgrandsarbres.com
Lounge Bar, Club and Restaurant
Lounge is Largs' most popular bar, restaurant and club. With a distinctive look and feel, the owner wanted an online presence to match. The site features custom artwork (by acclaimed artist Gary Newman) and allows vistors to download the latest menus and entertainment programmes, all managed by a suite of back-end
admin utilities.Status: Live at www.loungeatlargs.com
The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse is Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and The City. The site is built using a CSS Layout and XHTML structure, with backend tools including simple Content Management System and
Email Marketing Suite. In addition to coding the website, NSDesign regularly provide consultancy to The Lighthouse on a number of web/IT related projects.Status: Live at www.thelighthouse.co.uk (design since amended)
ATVXtreme
The ATV Xtreme Adventure company offer Quadbikes, Motorbikes and much more. This site is a custom modification of a commercial e-commerce package, and allows complete client administration through the available back-end tools.Status: Live at www.atvxtreme.com
Ideasmart
Ideasmart is a new and exciting programme from The Scottish Arts Council and NESTA to foster and support individual creative entrepreneurship and good ideas within the Creative Industries. The CSS/XHTML compliant website includes application management, with full admin CMS.Status: Site Offline
Scientific Coaching
This website is run by Dr Auriel Forrester (renowned cycle coach) and provides "scientifically based coaching" for cycling and triathlon. Built to full "accessability" standards using CSS/XHTML compliant code, the site is easily administered by Dr Forrester using a "template" based format.Status: Live at www.scientific-coaching.com
Thistle Systems Group
Thistle Storage Equipment provide a first class service in designing, supplying and delivering Storage Equipment Solutions. This fully bespoke e-commerce website is css/xhtml compliant, and includes a complete Content Management system allowing the client full control over all areas of the site, news updates, and product catalogue.Status: Live at www.thistlesystemsgroup.co.uk (design since amended)
ScottishArchitecture.com
Developed and maintained by NSDesign between 2003 and early 2005, ScottishArchitecture.com is part of the Scottish Executive's National policy on Architecture. The site features regularly updated news, and a dedicated Search Engine for architecture. ScottishArchitecture.com was featured in the "1,000 Favorite
Websites" book published by Taschen and edited by Julius Wiedemann.Status: Live at www.scottisharchitecture.com (design since amended)
