ID Have Vision

Preston Vision are joining forces with ID to create a new website to support their initiatives and projects elevating Preston in the minds of potential investors, residents and visitors.

It’s a strategically important project for Preston itself and we’re looking forward to creating a vibrant dynamic site which announces the new brand and leverages many exciting social media channels to involve the community and spark debate.

The website will come alive with images and comments from Preston’s residents and will empower Preston Vision to communicate project news and updates and engage the users of the site with the powerful IDCMS.

The pitch was open to the leading agencies in Preston and ID is proud to have been selected by the Preston Vision team.

Emma, Head of Marketing and Communications at Preston Vision commented: “Preston Vision felt that ID have exactly the right qualities and experience to help us to launch our first website, and we are delighted to be working with them”.

It’s going to be a lovely site and we’ll be pulling out all the stops to get it launched as soon as possible!

ID hit the nail on the head!

We've just launched the new site for The Nails Place, a nail and beauty salon who came to us for a fresh new look to go with their fresh new salon.

The site is stylish, fun and glossy and suits the personality of the staff and owners perfectly!

Eventually the site will integrate an online booking feature and a PayPal backed online shop, becoming more of a revenue generator for the salon and point of contact and comms for the customers, the booking system will SMS appointment reminders and automatically assign appointment times moving The Nails Place ahead of the competition by leaps and bounds.

Happy client, happy ID, great fun!

Need help quitting smoking?

We’ve just worked on a project along with The Hub on an exciting Quit Smoking campaign they are delivering. We developed a blog based website for them which helps explain the different types of ‘quitter’ and what’s available to help and support soon to be ex-smokers through the process.

We delivered a multi-journal based site, with a bespoke ‘quiz’ which determines the user’s ‘quitter type’ and then gives them more info relevant to them, news, hints & tips, etc and all controllable by the client. And open for comments from the public to help generate engagement and interaction.

Great fun working with The Hub (www.socialmarketinghub.co.uk), nice little project.

Check it out here – http://www.takesallsorts.co.uk.

New site for NSAL

Northern Stock Auditors Limited needed to expand their reach, and yet are only a small company without the 'deep pockets' of (some of) our other clients so we wanted to give them something which had maximum impact but was fast to produce and brimming with value.

The result was http://www.northernstockauditors.co.uk/

They needed a brand and a web presence.

We started off developing them a lovely little identity and then a one page poster style site which tells the prospective customers everything they need to know. We used a bit of jQuery, Typekit and even a Wufoo form to get the job done.

Happy Anniversary Craig and Amy!

2 years today... Congrats to Craig and Amy on their Wedding Anniversary. Here's to many more!

Remember the big day > http://weareid.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

No rest for the wicked!

Going to be a busy month with 4 new websites, seo clients and a major new intranet release to get cracking on.

We also really want to make some time to improve our own site, the current one doesn't truly represent all the services we can provide, like social media strategy, online campaigns, digital marketing, SEM, SEO and PPC and it also doesn't fully explain our UX lead approach which ensures your project fully satisfies your users requirements.

We're also driving forward on the business development front too. Making new relationships and attracting interest from places we never imagined we would.

Above all, we'll be there when our clients need us with superb customer service, without that it's all pointless!

We must have been very naughty!

By popular demand...

Here's the recipe for the AMAZING Oreo Truffles:

2 Packets of Oreo cookies, vanilla flavour
400g cream cheese
400g of milk chocolate
400g white chocolate (for the mottled effect, otherwise just use 800g of milk chocolate)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 teaspoon instant coffee

1. Place the oreos in the large sandwich bag, grab a rolling pin and on a nice firm surface give them a good bash up, the ideal mixture is somewhat small crumbs, rather than a powder.
2. In a large mixing bowl add the oreo crumbs, vanilla essence, instant coffee and the cream cheese , mix with a large spoon until they are well blended.
3. Place a very small amount of vegetable oil on your hands (helps stop them sticking to you) and take a small amount of mix, roll into a ball and place on a tin foil lined baking tray
4. Pop these into the fridge for at least an hour – preferably longer
5. if you have a double boiler – now is the time to break it out from the back of the cupboard, otherwise place a large pan on the hob with approximately ½” of water in the bottom
6. bring this to the boil and then back the heat right off to a mild simmer, place a large preferably pyrex glass bowl (as they can stand the heat) into the pan (but not so it is touching the water, we want to use the steam) place the chocolate broken up into chunks into the bowl, if you want the marble effect place them in a ½ and ½ within the bowl so they stay somewhat separate.
7. Once the chocolate has melted turn the heat to minimum and with 2 spoons grab the oreo balls, roll them in the chocolate and place back on the tin foil baking trays, repeat until all are covered, keep a close eye on the chocolate, it its heated to much it will thicken and be very difficult to work with, if in doubt remove (carefully!) the bowl from the heat and simply place it back if the chocolate gets to cold.
8. Once all the balls are covered in chocolate place back into the fridge for approximately an hour, they are then ready to enjoy! (as is the bowl with the bits of chocolate left in it- yum)

*Possible variations are very easy with this e.g simply substitute regular oreo’s for mint ones and remove the coffee for minty flavour instead!

**Warning, these will not last long, not because they go off quickly, more because everyone will want one!

Treats in the office today

Craig made some Oreo Truffles today, they are going down a treat in the office.

Friday's are truly a joy!

RARing to go!

ID were recommended on the Recommended Agency Register earlier this month meaning we can be found by clients searching for the following services:

Business to Business
Food and drink
Public sector
FMCG
Financial
Retail
Leisure
Travel
Charity
IT
Industrial
Healthcare
Media
Construction
Professional Service
Education
Arts
Utilities
Fashion
Tourism

We’ve been recommended by our clients for our digital, design and printed work and are now able to display the RAR logo on our site - which we are rebuilding at the moment so we’ll probably wait till the next release, you know what it’s like!

New brochures for Bodycote!

We've just got the Bodycote Vital Link brochure back from print and we're very happy with it.

The brochure explains Bodycote's role in their client's supply chain, spelling out how they can enhance their efficiency and product integrity by saving costs and improving material properties.

Now the courier has to get them to Singapore before the 2nd!