We are a specialist ASP.NET web application development agency based in Wimbledon, London. The credentials attached here showcase a bit about who we are and showcase some of the work we have delivered. We specialise in the bespoke and the complex and relish a challenge to produce something tailored to a clients exact needs.
2. Introduction
We are focussed on developing the highest quality
websites and applications using the best possible
technology and specialising in ASP.NET
4. Project management / User Experience
Simon Wilkinson
Natalie Wiggins
Edward Kemp
MD & Technical Lead
Senior Account Manager
User Experience Lead
With over 12 years experience
as a programmer and having
setup and run Webigence for
10 years, Simon is
knowledgeable and
approachable with a great way
of explaining things so that
everyone can understand.
With 6 years of Project and
Account management
experience, Natalie has work
across a wide range of clients,
from the NHS to Barclays.
With 5 years experience in UX
design, Ed is certified at an
advance level using Axure (the
leading UX industry standard
in interactive wireframe
software)
Simon will be accountable for
the overall project deliverables
and technical/functional
considerations.
Natalie will be responsible for
the day-to-day project
management and client
service needs.
Ed will be responsible for
planning and designing the site
architecture, ensuring the
content, layout, structure, and
user journey is well
considered.
5. Programming team
Stefan Dominik
Ko Ko
Senior Developer
Senior Developer
Stefan has worked at Webigence for
more than 8 years and now runs
several projects single-handedly
specialising in eCommerce and
payment service provider integration.
Ko Ko has worked at Webigence for more
than 6 years and had developed into a
gifted developer who embraces the
latest technologies and specialises in
content management and eCommerce.
Fikri Bostandzhi
Dakshal Raijada
Gamal Salman
Web Developer
Web Developer
Web Developer
6. HTML/CSS/Responsive team
Junior Mader
Iris Vokopola
Cathy Chi
Front-end Developer
Web Developer
Junior Web Developer
The development team have the same set of core programming skills, although there are a few
variations. Every programmer employed by Webigence has at least a good Bachelors degree in
Computer Science although many also have Masters degrees in related subjects too.
Furthermore, most of the team get involved with most of the project, ensuring we have multiple
members up to speed on each project, reducing dependencies and risks if key members become
unavailable for any reason.
8. Our work
Client: Travel Stream
A booking engine that can be bolted onto hotel and
apartment websites, or can act as a standalone
website and booking engine.
Property bookings are among the most complex
types of bookings to program and cater for, given
multiple rates across multiple dates as room or
rate prices could change daily, and bookings can
be for different number of nights, rooms, people
etc. with other criteria such as
availability, inventory, discounts, and more all
needing to be catered for.
We have architected, developed and continue to
oversee the ongoing development of the complete
system and have a number of clients using the
system.
The client, Peter Dennis (CEO) says
“The thoroughness and thinking that Webigence
put in at the start of the project, with the
wireframing, technical functionality and design although took time, really did help to structure the
website so things were smoother in the long run
and we have a product we can be proud of.”
9. Our work
Client: Buyonetoo
A complete ecommerce marketplace platform,
which powers multiple online community
marketplaces including „The Camping and
Caravanning Club‟ who are a 500,000+ member
community.
Essentially the system is the same as Amazon
Marketplace but provided to, and branded up as,
each online community‟s own marketplace.
Webigence have built the system then continued to
support and add further functionality over several
years – and we are now working closely with them
to help them expand further and take the next
logical step in their growth to hire their own internal
developers at the same time as they are in
advanced investment negotiations.
10. Our work
Client: Skills Platform
A large system delivered in short timescales,
launched on time on 2nd December.
It includes ecommerce, PDF generation (for an
order receipt), ecommerce using a „parallel
payment‟ model where multiple parties get paid at
the same time (i.e. not just bog standard
ecommerce transactions). It will include a
subscription model by mid-2014 and has significant
white label functionality already implemented to
enable organisations to completely and
automatically create either their own full website, or
to create a bolt-on module. They will be able to use
this in conjunction with their own website, or just link
to individual course pages that then feeds into the
ecommerce payment process.
11. Our work
Client: Andy Hayler
Andy Hayler is a freelance food and restaurant critic
(he has appeared on programmes such as the
BBC's Masterchef), and is currently the only person
in the world to have been to every 3 star Michelin
restaurant.
We re-developed, designed and built the new site,
which incorporated the information and extensive
data of over 1000 restaurant reviews Andy has
collated over the past 20 years, from both his
previous website, and his 3 star Michelin restaurant
site. In addition we have greatly enhanced the new
site to include the ability to search for restaurants
based on multiple search criteria, a historical view to
see how each individual restaurant's Michelin stars
might have changed over the years and added the
ability for the user to see multiple reviews per
restaurant (for when Andy has visited the restaurant
more than once over time).
Andy‟s feedback to us was that…
“The new website looks great, has dramatically
more functionality than the previous one and since
the site went live the number of viewers has
increased by around 50% per day.”
12. Our work
Advanced Filtering for restaurant guide
If you look at the image to the right hand side (which
can also been found on this page:
http://www.andyhayler.com/restaurant-guide), you
will see detailed out the different filter tabs/options
we had to cater for in order to handle all the complex
data on the site, whilst at the same time balancing
this to ensure the user experience is as simple as
possible.
Any work we take on we want to make sure we
carry it out to a high standard so the client is happy
but also so we can be proud of our work and use it
in our portfolio. One of the most important things to
consider here on the comparative pricing tool, would
be to make sure we get the balance right with giving
the users some great functionality with all the filter
options, but at the same time keeping it simple from
a User Experience perspective.
Andy‟s feedback to us was that…
“The new website looks great, has dramatically
more functionality than the previous one and since
the site went live the number of viewers has
increased by around 50% per day.”
13. Our work
Client: Strengths Partnership
Strengths Partnership provide a world leading,
online strengths assessment system and
Webigence look after the main part of their
business - all the application development.
Their online application consists of five different
modules within the system and each one
produces a report following a series of online
questions being completed. Within this, there is
a master login, respondent login, a login for
selected people to answer questions on the
respondent, and a client login.
One of the main modules we have developed is
called "StrenghtscopeLeader" which is a unique
360-degree leadership profiler for leaders to fill in
a set of online questions about themselves.
Various other selected people are invited to
contribute by answering a different set of online
questions which makes up a comprehensive
online assessment of that leader. All the data for
that leader is then outputted dynamically into a
visually designed graphical 38 page PDF report.
As the next progression, we are looking into doing
a Chinese translation of the reports.
14. Our work
Client: Westminster Adult Education Service
Westminster's specialist adult college, offering fulltime and part-time study in the daytime, evenings
and at weekends.
We re-developed, designed, and built the new
WAES website which now contains over 1000
different adult education courses, and has link ups
with 3 backend databases so live course information
can be regularly fed into the front end website. The
new site also contains an advanced search facility
and a mega drop down to find a course, as well as
being responsive so it works across mobile and
tablets. We have also included a custom form builder
so the client can create a form for an event as and
when necessary.
The marketing manager received a standing ovation
from the board of directors when he presented the
website to them and has since told us that…
“The impact of this new site has been huge and has
most certainly contributed to an 88% increase in
enrolments compared to the first few weeks of last
year which is incredible.”
15. Our work
Client: Matthew Cox
Matthew is an antiques dealer and furniture maker
with 15 years experience selling to the London and
New York trade, top interior designers and a few
discerning private customers.
This is an online collection of his work and stock for
antique dealers, interior designers and discerning
private buyers to view and purchase so it needs to
be sophisticated and attention grabbing.
We at Webigence love pushing the boundaries in
technology and this project is allowing us to flex our
techy muscles in making the website horizontally
responsive so the images scroll across rather than
down.
Our approach is to produce a fluid layout that
adapts responsively with changing widths by
detecting changes in device and screen size on the
server side and/or in Javascript. There is definitely
an art and a science in this (iterative) process, and
it‟s still a relatively new field, but we believe we
approach it in an appropriate way to ensure we
produce an effective solution for every screen size
and device.
16. Sample work
Client: Barrett Clark
Barrett Clark are a senior and executive
management recruitment company who specialise in
placing „the best talent in the best companies‟.
We went through our full User Experience design /
wireframing process where we worked up a number
of interesting page templates which helped form the
structure and foundation of the new Barrett Clark
website.
The site was then visually designed, built, plugged
into Webi CMS, and programmed to contain,
amongst other things, multiple link ups with the data
between the team members, jobs, sectors, and blog
entries. We also made the site responsive so it
adapts to mobiles and tablets.
At the time of launch we were confident in saying
that this was one of the leading and best recruitment
sites around and one of their Partners confirmed…
“We receive regular compliments on our website and
this is largely down to the work and excellent advice
of the team at Webigence.”
19. Our typical process
Planning
Content workshop
Your project would kick off with a 'content workshop which is
basically a meeting involving you and anyone else appropriate
in your team, to really discuss every element and every
requirement in detail to ensure everything is planned out as
well as it possibly could be.
Research
We will then go away and do relevant research in order to
gather the information needed to start the User Experience
stage.
20. Our typical process
User Experience
Preparing the foundations
It's vitally important to make sure the foundations of the site
are right before any visual design work is started, so during
this stage we consider the structure, content, layout, and user
journey.
Flow Diagram & Wireframes
We will work up a "Flow diagram" first which is basically a tree
diagram which shows how the overall site and login area will
fit together, and then we will work up the individual page
template wireframes (using the industry leading UX
prototyping tool "Axure") and this process will be carried
through for all the different page templates.
21. Our typical process
Visual design
The look & feel
The visual design is where we 'paint' the wireframes to bring in
the colours, imagery, branding and visual styling.
We won't be adding in new elements or playing around with
the structure at this stage as this will have been defined in the
wireframes. The visual design stage is simply to look at the
visual aesthetics and making your site look fantastic and hit
the mark of what you are wanting from a visual perspective.
22. Our typical process
Front End Build
HTML/CSS
We would build the front end of the site using the latest
HTML5/CSS3 standards i.e. using all the latest approaches to
ensure the webpage code is clean, well structured and
efficient.
Other frameworks, libraries & tools
We also work extensively with jQuery, and we work with SCSS
(which is a CSS pre-processor) and libraries such as
Backbone.js, Knockout.js and Angular.js i.e this helps us to
produce the best structured CSS and Javascript respectively;
23. Our typical process
Responsive
What is „Responsive‟ design?
This refers to a website that automatically adjusts the structure
and layout based on different screen sizes, so when viewing
on a tablet or mobile the website will work in an appropriate
way based on the screen size.
Handling different devices
We produce a 'fluid' layout and responsively (with changing
widths) and adaptively (by detecting changes in device and
screen size on the server side and/or in Javascript) change
the website to suit the device the website is being viewed on).
(This stage is optional depending on the project scope)
24. Our typical process
Programming
Backend build
Once the front end of the site has been designed and built,
and the responsive done, we then normally move onto the
Backend build which involves the programming (and CMS
integration where appropriate).
We work using Microsoft technologies and would use the
latest ASP.NET MVC 4 framework (and using C# as the
programming language). I.e this is the latest technology and
the site would be built to rigorous coding, security, and
scalability standards.
25. Our typical process
Testing
Staging URL
We build the site and make it available on a staging URL
allowing us to work on it and you can see it functioning in “real
time” as it would once it goes live (but without anyone else
seeing it or search engines finding it).
Content population & training
We strongly recommend allowing enough for testing and debugging before the site goes live. This will include both us and
yourselves testing the functionality across the whole site. If
relevant, we will also give you a run through of how the
Content Management System works for you to test and use
yourselves and populate your content.
26. Final thoughts
We pride ourselves in being the best in our field of building ASP.NET websites, catering for complex
and bespoke requirements – the more complex the better really, as we love to rise to the challenge of
creating websites that are both functionally advanced and aesthetically appealing, wowing and
pleasing both the client and the end user.
Having been around for 11+ years we have significant experience and trustworthiness in what we do
and the retention and repeat business from our clients is testament to that fact. We are happy to put
you in touch with the relevant clients for references if required.
27. Thank you for your consideration
We would love to have further discussions with you regarding your
project and sincerely look forward to speaking with you soon.
Webigence Ltd, 51 St Georges Road, London, SW19 4EA | Registered number: 4132885 | VAT number: 742706339