Case studies

These are five highlights from our 43 Internet projects since 1995 relevant to the work we do now.

2009

BBC

TweetStore

Built on RSSCatcher, this is a publicly-available archive of the BBC's hundreds of Twitter feeds.

Harbury Media Ltd

the-racehorse.com stallion statistics database

the-racehorse.com Stallion Statistics Database presents tabular and graphical information on thousands of stallions.

It is based on a custom database built on source race results, sales results and stallion nomination fees. The source data is imported, validated, standardised and inter-connected so that we can show a stallion's performance over time.

We created new Drupal modules (PHP) for use with MySQL. Commonly-used statistics are re-computed daily to ensure a fast response time when pages are generated.

All the graphs are implemented in standard HTML and require no special software to view.

2008

BBC

RSSCatcher

We developed software to archive the BBC's RSS feeds in an XML database, with a web front-end; designed to be portable, robust and scalable to thousands of feeds

2005

Oxford University Press

OED Online web site redesign

Following the success of our 2003 redesign of the public pages at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) web site, Oxford University Press hired us to apply the design to OED Online.

We were briefed to make only the minimum of mark-up changes to apply the new design, effectively making this a reskinning project for the dictionary. This created an interesting challenge as it meant that we could not add or remove frames, move elements within frames or change the names, positions or sizes of the graphics, except in certain limited cases to improve usability.

We used the same graphic designer we worked with on the public pages redesign. Many of the elements in OED Online did not exist in the public site so we designed them from scratch with the graphic designer. The new design was implemented by HighWire Press using our new graphics, new style sheets, templates and documentation.  more...

1996

Cybersport

Proof of concept

Cybersport hired Limitless to develop new technology so that they could see if it was possible to have online shared participation in fitness and sporting events.  more...

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