Our services

Strategic consulting

Planning is vital to digital projects. We never begin designing or building websites and e-mailers without first carefully considering our client, their customers or audience, branding, technical parameters, the sector and business model in question, competitors, and much more.

All of this helps us build the bigger and crucial picture of requirements. This stage also allows us to consider integration into back-end systems and processes, which adds huge value to otherwise stand-alone websites and online campaigns.

  • Digital strategies, site audits and benchmarking
  • Digital brand management
  • Business case and ROI metrics
  • Mobile and app development advice
  • Usability and accessibility
  • Technical considerations/advice
  • SEO, analytics, e-commerce, hosting

Web and iPhone/iPad/Android app design and development

From four pages to 4000, static or dynamic, creating striking and compelling websites is where Oculus Digital excels. We balance style, content, accessibility standards and usability skills to deliver compelling sites that enable you to deliver on your own web strategy.

Websites need constant attention – we don't believe websites should be one-off projects, but rather a marketing channel or information resource that should be regularly added to and improved. Two of our recently built websites are way ahead of their peers according to the Google Benchmarking service – that's the kind of ROI we love – and proof we've got it right.

Both of these sites use Kentico our preferred CMS of choice – we are a Gold Partner and have just become the first Kentico Certified Training Partner on mainland UK. We also won the 2009 global award for 'Best Education Site' for www.lotc.org.uk

  • Websites, intranets, extranets, portals
  • Mobile-optimised websites
  • iPhone/iPad/Android apps
  • Web 2.0 social media/networking sites
  • Information architecture, wireframes and specifications
  • Creative concepts and design
  • (X)HTML, CSS, .NET (.aspx), XML, JavaScript/jQuery, Flash
  • Kentico CMS
  • Database management and business process integration
  • Metrics, monitoring, testing and training

E-marketing

A solid online strategy has to encompass driving traffic to your website(s). We know how to exploit the marketing opportunities offered by the internet – from e-mailing campaigns and data management, online magazines and e-newsletters, through to rich media advertising.

Our online expertise can help you promote your company, product or event to maximum effect and you can clearly measure the ROI.

  • Creative concepts, design and production
  • Copywriting/proof-reading
  • Campaign set-up and end-to-end e-marketing management
  • Surveys, polls, microsites, landing pages and banner ads
  • Data/list management
  • Online magazines and e-newsletters

Rich internet applications

Rich internet applications (RIAs) provide an increased level of interactivity, similar to traditional desktop software. RIAs deliver a more engaging user experience both over the web and via desktops.

This is achieved through technologies such as JavaScript, AJAX, HTML5 and Adobe AIR and Flash, aligned with content creation via video production and 3D animation.

  • Creative graphic design
  • 3D animation: Flash, AfterEffects and Adobe AIR
  • Video production and editing
  • Interactive presentations and CD-ROMs, demos and showreels
  • JavaScript, AJAX, HTML5

Our methodology

Define the project

  • Fully understand client requirements
  • Fully understand user requirements
  • Undertake competitor/peer website review and expert evaluations
  • Set up internal team, planning requirements and external communications with client
  • Create requirements specification, project plan and project scope document and agree costs/timescales

Strategy and high-level design

  • Review existing and any new content
  • Review website structure and individual page views
  • Review functionality of website and suggest new features that could be added
  • Create content delivery plan, sitemap, wireframes, user scenarios, functional specification, test plans and hosting plans

Web design

  • Creative brief including brain-storming session(s)
  • Create concept designs
  • Create CSS (style-sheets) and (X)HTML prototype of website
  • Test HTML prototype for accessibility, browsers, etc.

Digital production

  • Produce website content from copy-deck
  • Build template pages from proto-site
  • Populate pages with content
  • Build functionality elements
  • Undertake internal testing
  • Integrate website pages and functionality code/elements
  • Proofreading and validation
  • Further testing internally and by client (user group)

Deployment

  • Prepare website for launch as is relevant for each project (e.g. internal/external marketing, move website to live server, repoint DNS, submit website to search engines, undertake client training, complete website documentation including training manual, service level agreement, ongoing development plan, etc.)
  • Launch website into live environment (final testing)
  • Set up next phase meetings and review process with client

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