Philosophy

We're a small agency with an insatiable passion for bringing your ideas to life. We take the time to find out what makes you tick, understand your goals and by clever consultation, reveal and enhance the strengths behind your ideas. We take a genuine, long-term interest in your venture, after all, we want you to choose us every time and you'll only do that if you're really happy with our services.

Creativity

Visually appealing design and well written copy are fundamental elements of your campaign, and will materialise naturally during a robust consultancy process. This can be as simple as a quick chat over a cuppa, an email exchange, or twelve hours locked in a room with a packet of digestives and some aspirin. Our many years experience has taught us the creative journey doesn't start when the first idea is written down, it starts when rapport has been established and a goal is clearly set out.

Application

We pay as much attention to the mechanics of your project as the visual aspects. Whether your solution is delivered via traditional media or electronic media, technical innovation is on-hand to compliment your project, not distract your audience. Our technical team has a range of experience in web and print standards, standard tools and services, applying best practices and attention to detail.

Websites

• Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Forums, Forms & Galleries
• Bespoke Builds
• Static Sites
• Customised Look & Feel

Whether you are considering a brand new website or are looking to add functionality to your existing online presence, you will love working with us. We find all that techie speak quite dull and, after discussing your ideas to find out what you really need, would rather just get down to building an attractive, practical website that you will be proud of.

We know how to bring your ideas to life with stunning design, easy navigation and sensible use of functionality.

Hosting & Maintenance

• Website Hosting
• Web Analytics
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• Ongoing Updates
• Periodic / Seasonal Rebands

Running and maintaining a website can be an annoying distraction from your daily activities. We can offer practical advice about all technical aspects of web hosting, search engine rankings and domain management. Or, if you prefer, we can host your website, update text/graphics with new information, liaise with any other related third parties you might have contracted or manage your products on your web shop.

Design & Branding

• Graphics & Artwork
• Logo & Branding Design
• Vehicle Decals
• Flyers, Posters & Brochures
• Corporate Identity & Guidelines

Whichever medium you choose for your communication, it reflects directly on you and your business or hobby. That's why you'll choose a design partner who genuinely cares about how you present your information, ensures the tone of your message is correct and directs it to where it'll have the biggest impact.

Branding isn't just for identifying livestock, but deployed correctly, will positively strengthen your product, service or organisation.

Auriana

Details

Brand new face-painters, Auriana, wanted a bright new website to showcase their gallery of happy customers. We built them a website that allowed them to easily upload their own photos, take bookings/enquiries. We used two existing plugins to show sliding images on the homepage and display the companies latest tweets. We also built a custom plugin to display the images in fullscreen mode on desktop and mobile devices.

Tools

Illustrator, Photoshop, jQuery, Concrete5

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Auriana Face-Painting

Counselling & Hypnotherapy

Details

The customer wanted an online presence for their business. We built them a CMS-based website with a unique design and online booking calendar.

Tools

Illustrator, Photoshop, jQuery, Wordpress

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Counselling & Hypnotherapy

Yeldaw Skillsets

Details

Yeldaw Skillsets, a training provider for young adults, needed a new website to host their training materials and allow students to sign up for courses. We provided them with a CMS-based, custom designed website and brand new logo.

Tools

Illustrator, Photoshop, jQuery, CakePHP, Croogo

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Yeldaw Skillsets

Harlow Neighbourhood Watch

Details

We built and designed a new website within a Content Management System to fulfil a need to display news and information from a local Neighbourhood Watch. We also developed two custom plugins; one for a downloads section and one to automatically check, parse and display content of a newsletter sent by a third party.

Tools

Illustrator, Photoshop, jQuery, CakePHP, Croogo

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Harlow Neighbourhood Watch

Harlow Greensox

Request

We were asked to assist with the relaunch of the Greensox youth baseball team on behalf of the Harlow Neighbourhood Watch & Southern Nationals team. This involved quickly arranging a web presence, posters advertising the event and branded merchandise for the opening event itself.

Delivered

Brand new website with fresh design, Content Management System with customised registration form, Branded Clothing, Promotion advice & support.

Tools

Illustrator, Photoshop, jQuery, CakePHP, Croogo

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Harlow Greensox

Top Dog Security

Request

Top Dog Security, a successful international business, desired an updated look and feel to their existing website. In addition, they were looking for a long-term partner who could manage sub-contractors and future expansions in addition to any ongoing maintenance/updates.

Delivered

Updated Logo, Completely New Design, Improved Navigation, Consolidation of Content, Liaising with third party SEO company.

Tools

Illustrator, Photoshop, CakePHP, jQuery, Google Translate Component

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Top Dog Security

West London Cockapoo

Request

We were approached by West London Cockapoo, a newly-started business with a request for a customised design suited to their business and location. They needed both a logo and a website which would enable them to update their content and upload galleries of images quickly and easily.

Delivered

Unique Logo & Design, CMS-driven Website, Hosting, Business Card Design

Tools

Illustrator, Indesign, CakePHP, Croogo

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West London Cockapoo

POS Services

Request

POS Services needed an automated system to process a client's seasonal artwork from Excel spreadsheets containing thousands of combinations to print-ready artwork. Traditionally, this would take days of typesetting and approval/amendments.

Delivered

Created customised website and software that allowed spreadsheets to be uploaded, artwork to be processed and PDF proofs available to view online within a few hours and sent to a supplier's FTP with the click of a button.

Tools

InDesign, Distiller, XCode, CakePHP, Prototype, Scriptaculous

Clinton Cards (via POS Services)

Request

Calendar; We were asked to design a window poster at very short notice to be printed and distributed to all Clintons stores for their calendar promotion

Boofle Poster; Using artwork provided, we amended copy and added some festive graphics

Delivered

Both; Print ready artwork

Tools

Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator

Paramount Youth Theatre

Request

To design and create artwork for Posters & Flyers for several upcoming performances.

Delivered

Print-ready artwork for all products.

Tools

InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Distiller, Adobe Acrobat

Dunstable Amateur Operatic Society

Request

This customer already had existing templates and simply needed artwork services; adding text and images from new performances along with updated advertisements.

Delivered

Print-ready artwork for all programmes.

Tools

InDesign, Photoshop, Distiller, Adobe Acrobat

CW Heating

Request

To help advertise the business and create a professional appearance, CW Heating requested a logo and matching van decals.

Delivered

Logo and matching van decals.

Tools

Illustrator

If you'd like to know more about our services, feel free to contact us at enquiries@thelittlehippocompany.co.uk