We’re pleased to announce a partnership (which in truth has been running for a while now) between 383 Project and BDL Hotels. It’s unlikely you’ll have heard of BDL, but they are infact the name behind some of the UKs major hotel brands including Holiday Inn, Ramada Encore, Crowne Plaza and a number of independent boutique hotels.

We’ve spent the last few months overhauling the entire digital side of the business building a suite of nearly 30 separate hotel sites for locations across the UK, plus a number of bespoke CRM and data tools for use across the group.

In amongst the sites we were pleased to develop the first UK hotel website to carry the new Holiday Inn brand, the web site for the newly built Ramada Encore in Birmingham and a rebrand of the prestigious Princes Street Suites in Edinburgh.

The contract win with BDL represents a further step in to the hospitality industry for 383 and we look forward to helping BDL progress the business in the coming months.

Through our continued work with London based Diffusion PR, we’ve recently completed a brand and site update for a new arm of the business – Diffusion mobile.

Diffusion Mobile, as the name suggests, will specialise in helping clients with all aspects of mobile telecoms from content and applications, to mobile advertising and hardware.

The site shares a great deal with the previous Diffusion PR site, but with a nice new hand drawn flash animation and a few other tweaks throughout to reflect the new disciplines.

Chouchoute

Chouchoute chocolaterie is a luxury chocolate shop unlike any other on the high street. There’s no point describing the chocolates here, but we recommend you pop in and chat to Pierre if you want to know why they’re different (and have a taste obviously). As well as selling from their boutique shop in Birmingham, Chouchoute also sell online which is where 383 come in to the story. Historically selling online had been a mixed bag and Chouchoute needed a shop that provided more flexibility to manage on a day to day basis and offered a more design led experience for customers. We developed a full ecommerce solution for Chouchoute using the open source platform Magento. Using Magento allowed us to adopt a platform that was already feature rich and had a strong developer community behind it, leaving more time to customise the more complicated elements in house and focus on a theme that suited the Chouchoute brand. A lot of what we ended up building bespoke for the shop has now been integrated in to the standard Magento framework and we’d highly recommend people to check it out (or chat to us!) if they’re looking for an open source ecommerce solution. You can view more images in our portfolio and check out the site here.

eg UK

383 started working with eg earlier this year and as part of their improved offer to customers helped them revamp their website. eg are a major player in developing software which helps big businesses monitor and implement all manner of work processes and operational performance strategies (you can tell we’ve been working together closely when I can rattle that out of my brain!).  The site has a secure customer only area to enable eg to promote product enhancements and field technical enquiries, as well as some cool live share data charts pulled from the LSE. You can visit the site here or read a bit more in the folio listing here.

Direct Marketing Commission

The DMC is the UK body which oversees and regulates direct marketing on behalf of recipients and practitioners. 383 were asked to create a site which would inform users of their role in direct marketing, and provide an improved means of communication between the DMC and the public. As well as giving the organisation the means to publish regular news, we also built an online complaints form which will hopefully improve the ways in which the DMC can communicate with the public and increase the overall responsiveness of the organisation.

Ways HR Consulting

Ways HR are an HR consultancy providing training and guidance for public and private sector organisations. The project at this phase has revolved around building a basic presence for Ways, ensuring that potential clients know what they do and how they could help. Part of the sites development has involved building an organisational health check which scores users answers and allows Ways to feedback on potential improvements to the users businesses processes. Phase two of the project involves building a site dedicated to elearning and online training which we’re really excited about – more on that later!

GoKart Brochure

Lastly, I blogged a while back about the GoKart brochure photoshoot. Well, now it’s all complete, printed and tucked away here in our portfolio.