It has been (nearly) 1 year since One Stop Promotions setup One Stop Web Designers as an arm to their services. So as the web design department we thought we would show a few things that have happened over the year, not just websites we have developed but a few other bits and bobs along the way.. this blog entry in no way should be taken seriously..!
January
The beginning of it all. January saw a huge flurry of activity on the marketing side (it even came with a plan..) Fresh and new into the market came One Stop Web Designers, the response was frankly quicker than expected, which surprised us a little. It was great to see such a response however, we had 8 projects in total including www.actoncars.co.uk, a content management system with an automatic vehicle upload section. So we not only began strong but also showing off a little.
February
February quite frankly wasn’t very interesting. Shall we move on..
March
Now March saw the installation of Lian’s new mascot. Placed to see across the office and ensure all things were fluffy and pink in his world. We never got round to naming ‘it’ and are now relieved ‘it’ has now found it’s place in life.. down the tip.
March however did bring us a very interesting project involving postcode geographics and calculations (yes we sound nerdy right now) but have a look and of course play around with www.buzz-cars.com and you’ll see why we are proud..
We also began blogging after a lot of conversations with clients reference twitter, we felt the need to blog! http://onestopwebdesigners.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html
This fella appeared randomly from the digital department, we called him Fred.
April
April, ah yes April how cruel and kind you were. We had a client in need of a solution quick with their website, a rival company didn’t know what was wrong. They came to us and the picture is around 25% of the code we sifted through to work out what was wrong. It sent us slightly mad at the time, but not enough to pull our first big project in for NBV www.nbvconnect.co.uk a directory, a membership function and plenty more here.
May
May’s projects were brilliant, seriously brilliant, but we can’t speak about them. No seriously, we can’t comment as they were through a 3rd party. It involved a blue chip client and payment system for an event. That is all we can say.
However May taught us two things
- A soft drink can taste like ear wax
- We needed a bigger workflow board
We also embarked on our first Groupon adventure using the F.A Cup and One Stop Promotions T-shirt printing department. Man City beat Stoke City in the final of the F.A Cup, cue manic design changes as we all had Stoke down to win.. just kidding. A large influx of t-shirt orders and proof that groupon can work for a business.
May also saw our second blog entry http://onestopwebdesigners.blogspot.com/2011/05/you-can-help-your-search-engine.html (we really must do this more often..)
June
And the commencement of the excitement.. absolutely nothing to do with projects or work, but the entry to a ballot for Sonisphere tickets, and not only entering but getting to be a chosen one! Well Steve was an excited man until the event, well after the event, for many months after the event in all fairness..! He still hasn’t removed his parking ticket from his dashboard..
Oh and we also had out busiest month to date, not expected with summer holidays coming, including www.drivinginstructorloughborough.co.uk and http://www.derbyshirecateringservices.co.uk/ amongst others..
July
Well not a lot happened in all fairness, mainly due to us hitting the beach and sorting One Stop Promotions website out (www.onestoppromotions.co.uk)
So we got creative on the beach instead.. you can see where’s Steve’s kids are heading..
We were also minorly offended by a packet of sweets.. no need to call people names.
August
Now August surprised us.. no really, it jumped out of the cupboard and shouted “boo”. August was our busiest month so far of 2011.. It certainly wasn’t expected as one at the start of the year.. We thought too much sun and sangria would be consumed to actually order or want a website! It brought us some yellow pages design work, www.graciephotography.co.uk and www.wedding-cars-nottingham.co.uk among 8 other projects
However we did catch our boss breaking company internet policy, rude not take a picture. May come in handy...
September
The knock on effect of August meant September became hectic with www.euro-catering.co.uk (in conjunction with Richard Hearn Design) finishing and the start of 9 projects let alone finishing of August’s work..
Enough of work, September was an up and down month for the OSWD department.
Down: the installation of ‘swear pig’ – which effectively skinted us (when we say us we mean Lian - pictured)
Up: A wonderful card from a very pleased client
Down: Steve broke his external hard drive nearly lost a lot of personal info and pics of his babies (never sure if he means his kids or his guitars..)
Up: Won a DAB radio with Absolute Radio, in fact we won 2!
October
It seemed Halloween hung over us far too much in October. In fact if we are being honest can we just forget October happened? Yes? OK onto November sharpish...
November
What a month, the biggest and best, so far not over. Movember was adopted by Steve, so far raising around £200. We also did things like this in November www.personaltrainingloughborough.co.uk and www.alternatives.co.uk (this was a html site which we moved to a cms, design is not ours..) A good month for Steve as his other half’s relations came from Australia bearing gifts of an AC/DC fashion
.. and we also found the biggest grape in the world.. Seriously that is not photoshopped.
December
I know December hasn’t happened, but we’ve looked into our crystal ball and seen a drunken night in Loughborough for Christmas party purposes, the completion of 2 huge sites, a bloke with a white beard spreading delight over the world and an excessive amount of food and drink around the 25th!
See you all in 2012!
