First up is a new WordPress website for our friend Rich Simmons over at Art is the Cure.  Rich needed the ability to pull content from the wide range of platforms he uses to spread the word about the AITC movement.  We decided to take advantage of WordPress for this, applying a really cool custom skin to the site to compliment the vast amount of information we pull in using a range of off the shelf and custom plugins. Check it out at http://www.artisthecure.com.

Next up is Educating Together.  Educating Together is a brand new start up offering the highest quality resources and advice to parents to ensure that their children flourish at school.  The site was a custom designed bespoke build using the latest Microsoft technologies including ASP.Net 4.0 MVC with a SQL 2008 database.  We’ve also used jQuery and Flash to provide a neat and easy to navigate user experience.  If you have children in school we highly recommend that you check it out at https://www.educatingtogether.co.uk/.

Check back soon for more updates on the amazing new projects we’re currently working on…

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So what the heck is www.underyourroof.com we hear you say!?  Essentinally it is service that allows people to subscribe and electronically register the contents of their homes so that in the event that something awful such as a fire or flood were to occur underyourroof.com subscribers could then download a list of their contents to provide to their insurance company to process their claim quickly and easily.  A paid for version also allows subscribers to tag their items with photos and receipts, and quickly export their posession details to Excel or PDF.

Customers of underyourroof.com love the piece of mind they get knowing that they have documented evidence of their posessions.  Insurance companies see the service as a way to reduce fraudulent claims and ensure the process of managing a claim is handled as smoothly as possible.  Even lettings agencies are getting in on the acti0n using the underyourroof.com service to manage the inventory for their customers properties.

We had to keep in mind a number of considerations for subscribers during the design.  For example we knew that confidentiality would be a key issue so we ensured that we did not take any information from a subscriber that would allow somebody to identify the address of a registered list of poessessions.  Furthermore we ensured that the underyourroof.com site content could be managed by our customer and for this we provided a custom content management system after ensuring that there were no off the shelf content management systems that could provide similar functionality with an easy to use interface.

Underyourroof.com is now being marketed in the UK and we’re looking forward to implementing a number of fresh ideas that have been forwarded by users of the website since launch.  We’re already now seeing lots of interest from third parties who have seen the underyourroof.com model and believe they can apply a similar technology to their own markets.  We’re very excited about the partnerships underyourroof.com is looking to forge in the near future and wish the underyourroof.com team the best of luck!