Transvercia Chauffeur Drive provide luxury chauffeur driven cars for executive travel, airport transfers and tours.

Due to the nature of the business, Transvercia's website needed a strong design-led online presence, married with up-to-date technology. ABP Creative Design developed the design concept, and Horisk built the site purely in CSS, maintaining a consistent look and feel across all major browsers while retaining great search engine visibility and end-user accessibility. The resulting site evokes the quality of the brand, and incorporates online booking and payment.

Following the success of ApplyOnline and ReviewOnline (see below), we were commissioned to develop similar sites to deal with job applications and the recruitment process at The Robert Gordon University.

Jobs@RGU lists all current job vacancies at the University. Applicants can create applications for jobs, store partially completed forms, and view completed forms as a PDF.

RecruitOnline is a workflow system which allows authorised staff in each department to create job vacancies. These pass through an approval process before appearing on the Jobs@RGU site. Once applications are received, they can be shortlisted online against previously entered criteria, interviews arranged and if appropriate candidates can be selected. The few applications which still arrive on paper are scanned and also pass through the system. All communication with candidates who apply online is by email - paper correspondence is generated for those who applied on paper.

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The site enables direct applicants to the University to apply for courses online, and is intended to make the current paper application form obsolete. Applicants can store partially completed forms, and view completed forms as a PDF. Data is error-checked and collected in a format to ease its insertion into the University's existing Student Information System.

Subsequently we were invited to develop ReviewOnline for the University. This is a workflow system designed to improve the process of evaluating application forms within the University.

ApplyOnline and ReviewOnline formed the major part of a Business Process Re-engineering project which was a runner-up in the Guardian sponsored AUA Awards for Excellence 2004 and was Highly Commended in the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) Award for Excellence 2004.

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MyGhillie.com provides the most comprehensive online directory of trout and salmon fisheries in Scotland, a regional fishing guide, special offers and useful fishing resources.

The site incorporates online booking and credit card payment facilities for participating fisheries. A back-end Content Management System allows the site content to be edited and allows fisheries to view sales reports and alter permit availability.

SISoundandLight designs, installs, services and repairs all major brand of lighting and sound equipment for anyone in the entertainment business.

This site carries full information on their services, with a contact form and downloadable price lists.

The StudyUK project involved replacing the original proprietry code of an existing site with Coldfusion, while maintaining the site's design and functionality.

This site provides advice and information for overseas students considering studying in the UK. As well as providing over 250 pages of editorial, the site searches a database of over 100,000 courses at UK institutions.

It has extensive searching capabilities, and a Remote Management System (RMS) to allow Hobson's staff to alter editorial, configure advertising banners and add profiles for site sponsors.

Hobsons' Distance Learning utilises the Open University's ICDL database to provide potential students with information about flexible learning courses.

It has extensive searching capabilities, and a Remote Management System (RMS) to allow Hobson's staff to alter editorial, configure advertising banners and add profiles for site sponsors.

SmittenbySnow are an independent catered ski chalet company, based in La Plagne in the French Alps.

This site provides details of all the company's services and prices, and provides an online booking form.

The company also offers self-catering chalets through
RoomtoSkiRoomtoBoard.com

This site was developed for The Times newspaper. It incorporates student-specific content and news from The Times, an ongoing promotional competition, and content from Studentpages.com. We played three roles in developing the site:

• consulting on data issues in the early stages to develop a protocol for data-sharing between The Times and Studentpages;
• developing the competition area of the site (registration process, league tables, etc);
• developing a mechanism to process a daily XML newsfeed from The Times.

White Dentalcare is a new chain of city-centre dental clinics. This site was designed to promote their services. It incorporates a Flash intro in a simple, clean design.

The Portman Group's purpose is to promote sensible drinking and help prevent alcohol misuse. This site was developed as part of their 'If you do do drink, don't do drunk' campaign. The campaign targets 18-24 year old drinkers flagging up the risks they run by excessive drinking.

The site is designed to provide more information on the campaign and provide a competition entry mechanism. It is being promoted throughout the UK on over 1 million posters and postcards.

Hobsons is a major UK publisher, specialising in careers advice and reference books for students and careers professionals. Most of their publications are distributed free to students through Careers Service offices, but this site was built to allow careers professionals to order paid-for publications online.

The site is essentially a browsable product catalogue, with a custom-built shopping basket application. All the product information comes from an online database. A comprehensive Remote Management System (RMS) was added to allow non-technical staff at Hobsons to edit product specs, pricing, etc. The site stores address details for registered customers so that they do not need to re-enter information every time they order. As most orders are from schools who pay by invoice, there was no need to deal with online payments.

The design of the site follows the paper catalogue and Hobsons branding guidelines.

Hobsons Student Service has over 100,000 registered members, mostly students in higher education or recent graduates. The purpose of this site was to provide relevant careers information to each of these members, based on the information they supplied at registration.

At login, the site retrieved their details from the membership database, and then showed them editorial tailored to their interests. Editorial staff could add and edit content using a sophisticated RMS, flagging the categories of users who should see each article.