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These are all 43 Internet projects since 1995 relevant to the work we do now.

Academic

Psychology of Programming Interest Group

Web site

We were responsible for the web site of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) for nearly eight years. During that time, the site went through three designs and documented PPIG's fourteen annual workshops.

The site was completely redesigned and converted to CSS in December 2002, before it was handed over to another volunteer for hosting and maintenance. We continue to administer the two PPIG mailing lists.  more...

Banks

Barclays Bank

BarclayNet web site

In 1995, Limitless got together with a marketing company and their design arm, Denison Design, to design and build BarclayNet - a Barclays Bank web site for personal and business customers.

The site had features that we continue to adopt:

• shape- and colour-coding of the main site sections,
• goal-driven grouping of content and
• a generated site separating style from content.

A generated site allowed Barclays maximum flexibility, as they were to maintain the 200-page web site.  more...

Broadcasting

BBC

Theme IdeaTorrent

We set up the latest version of Drupal with the IdeaTorrent module and themed it to match a BBC microsite.

We made changes to the PHP module to meet the client's requirements.

BBC

TweetStore

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

BBC

BBC 2006 Innovation Lab

We were one of ten companies short-listed from hundreds to attend the week-long BBC Innovation Lab for new media ideas.

With the help of mentors and experts, we worked on our idea throughout the week. We pitched at the end of the week of BBC Commissioners. Our idea was one of the few chosen to take forward.

This is from our original labs entry form.

BBC Keywords:

Create and distribute the tools necessary to let anyone add BBC-maintained tags to their online services, as a complement to existing user-generated tags.The BBC has internal taxonomies, and library information specialists able to maintain organized tag sets. We propose turning this knowledge outwards, to enable a greater level of reliable connections and searches amongst user-tagged objects without diminishing the value of user-generated tags.

If people can easily mix well-defined tags with their own idiosyncratic ones, it will provide both individual value and the ability for the BBC and others to make meaningful connections between tagged resources.

The BBC said of our idea:

Many of the projects we recieved for the Innovation Labs looked at tagging, but the few that we picked for the Labs added a partiular feature or idea that made them stand out. In the case of BBC keywords, the idea was mixing the BBC's existing formal metadata with user tags, creating a richer resource of metadata to help users find and share content.

BBC

BBC 2007 Innovation Lab

For the second yera running, we were one of ten companies short-listed from hundreds to attend the week-long BBC Innovation Lab for new media ideas.

With the help of mentors and experts, we worked on our idea throughout the week. We pitched at the end of the week of BBC Commissioners. Our idea was one of the few chosen to take forward.

Tell Me When is a service which notifies people on what to read, see, do or visit based on their interests.

Our week's experience was featured by Kathyrn Corrick for NMK in the article BBC Innovation Labs: Take Two.

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

Charity

CRASH

Web site

CRASH, the construction and property industry charity for the homeless, asked for our help to design and redevelop their existing web site when it became too difficult to maintain.

We built the new site, making it interactive and dynamic, and easy for CRASH to maintain. Major site-wide changes can be made by editing a single file, and CRASH can update and add content with the minimum of mark-up.

Limitless Innovations are proud to have been able to donate 90% of our time to the development of the CRASH web site.  more...

CRASH

Web site redesign

In 2005, we redesigned the CRASH home page to make it work harder. We adjusted the page colour scheme and made some improvements to the general page layout.

CRASH brings professionals and companies from the construction and property industries together to help homelessness charities to improve their premises.  more...

CRASH

Project database

In the process of planning a CRASH web site, we found that the information that CRASH wanted to display on the site was not currently available in a structured way.

We worked with CRASH to help define the requirements of a projects database system; we set up spreadsheets as an interim solution until a custom application could be developed.  more...

Windsor Half Marathon

Web site (phase 1 & 2)

The Windsor Half Marathon web site is at www.runwindsor.com.

We were wholly responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of the web site for the Windsor Half Marathon (WHM - formerly the Building Industry Windsor Half Marathon) for five years from 1996. Our time was provided pro bono.

The half marathon is an annual event in Windsor Great Park with around 5,000 runners. The event has building industry links and raises money for charity (over £1,000,000 since 1982).

In recent years the web site accounted for the majority of entries to the event. We led the requirements definition phase for a relaunch of the site in 2001.  more...

Consumer Intermediary

Cardata

Intranet

Cardata provide services to buyers and sellers of used cars, and are a client of Limitless. We worked with Limitless to provide Java, Oracle and XML-based development expertise for Cardata's internal and public-facing projects.

Distillers & Vintners

Berry Bros. & Rudd

Consultancy

We developed ideas for new functionality for the award-winning Berry Bros. & Rudd (BBR) web site for Limitless, the site's developers.

Starting with one of BBR's own ideas, we researched online and offline examples of the service. We then collated our ideas for the general approach, information architecture and functionality in a ten-page report.

We did further research on online wedding registry services and wrote a document describing how such a service could work on the BBR site in terms of features, functionality and content. This resulted in the launch of the Berry Bros. & Rudd Wedding List Service.  more...

Berry Bros. & Rudd

Web site requirements definition (phase 2)

In 1998, three years after Limitless first put the Berry Bros. & Rudd broking list online, Berry's finally gave way to customer demand and decided to put their entire wine list online.

This meant a completely redesigned, restructured and redeveloped web site by the previous combination of Limitless and Denison Design.  more...

Berry Bros. & Rudd

Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races web site

We worked with Denison Design to create the official web site for the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races, a Berry Bros & Rudd company.  more...

Berry Bros. & Rudd

Cutty Sark Scots Whisky web site

We worked with Denison Design to design and build the official web site for Cutty Sark Scots Whisky, owned by Berry Bros. & Rudd.  more...

Berry Bros. & Rudd

Web site

In 1995, Berry Bros. & Rudd, then a 300-yr old wine merchant with a Royal Warrant, saw what Limitless had done for Sainsbury's with Wine Direct and asked Limitless to build them a more elaborate online wine shop to help them serve customers in the far east.  more...

Food Retail

Sainsbury's

Wine Direct web site

Limitless's first project was to build the first online store for a major British retailer, Sainsbury's, and to do it from scratch in a matter of days.  more...

Government

Embassy of Japan

Web site

We worked with the Japan Information & Cultural Centre (JICC) to design and build the first web site of the Embassy of Japan in 1996.

The Embassy already had a clear idea of what they wanted to put on their web site - our job was to refine the structure, work with designers on the site's visual design and then to construct the site using copy prepared by the Embassy.

The web site contained Visa information, a diary of Japan-related events, information on about living and working in Japan, and information about JICC.  more...

Health Care

Moorfields Eye Hospital

Web site (phase 1 & 2)

We designed, built and maintained the first web site for Moorfields Eye Hospital for three years from 1996.

The site began with information on courses, teaching and research; it eventually grew to 10 times its original size before it was redesigned and redeveloped.

We led the second phase redesign process and constructed the new site before handing over maintenance to Limitless. Moorfields relaunched the web site in 2002.  more...

Integrated Telecommunication Services

An international telecoms company

UK ISP telephone survey & business intelligence

We provided a research report on UK ISPs to a public telecommunications company; they required a list of recommended Internet Access Providers to consider for investment in the UK. They contacted us via Paola Kathuria's UK & Irish Internet Company Directory.

Starting with a list of about 400 UK Internet access providers, we eliminated those companies which did not meet our client's core criteria. For the remaining 20 companies, we collected information from various sources and ran a telephone survey to gather in-depth information.

The resulting 80-page report and analysis contained a short-list of eleven candidate companies and we were subsquently commissioned to prepare two in-depth reports of UK companies.  more...

An international telecoms company

European ISP web-based survey

We provided research for a public telecommunications company considering investing in Internet access providers in the UK and central Europe. They wanted to establish a picture of the Internet service provider market in the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. They'd contacted us after seeing InetUK, the UK & Irish Internet Company Directory, which Paola Kathuria maintained.

We contacted potential respondents by e-mail and invited them to participate in a web-based survey which we designed. Response rate was 56% - the survey responses and analysis were written up in a 145-page report which was later made public in summary form.  more...

One World Telecom

Web site requirements definition

One World Telecom (OWT) provides a range of telephony and related Internet products to businesses throughout Europe. They wanted a web site and needed help deciding what should be on the site so that they could get quotes from web companies for the site design and construction.

We ran a one-day workshop at OWT to discuss their web site requirements; a week later they received a written requirements document which they then used to get comparison quotes.  more...

Internet Retail

Totally Essential

Web site development

totallyessential.com is an online art store for totallyessential limited. It supports member registration, secure online ordering, and limited customisation of its appearance.

totallyessential limited also offer individual sites for artists and galleries, all tied into the same relational database, and sharing common shopping and ordering capabilities. The day-to-day administration and maintenance of the site, including the set-up of affiliated sites, is handled entirely by the client.

Limitless Innovations designed the architecture of the site, and worked with Denison who provided the graphic design. We worked with Limitless to develop its database and software. We also provided consultancy and tools for image preparation.

Internet Service

Carsource

Web site

Limitless developed LML - Limitless Mark-up Language - in 1996 so that they could create Carsource for an entrepreneur; Carsource was one of the UK's first car buying and selling web sites and became one of the top 50 visited sites in the UK.  more...

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...

Cybersport

New product development

The full-scale version of Cybersport's online fitness club involved first designing a robust and efficient protocol for co-ordinating several rowing machines connected to PCs via dial-up access to the Internet. Using the lessons learned from the successful proof-of-concept system, the resultant design formed part of a successful patent application for the completed system.  more...

Internet Software & Services

Limitless

Web site

We designed, wrote, constructed and maintained the Limitless web site from 1995 to 1999.  more...

IT Consulting & Services

Sysao

Web site design

Sysao wanted to replace their existing web site with one that would help generate new business, and support existing customers and partners. They wanted marked-up web pages for each page type and a style manual.

We were recommended by marketing consultant, Margo Rosenberg, to help design a site that Sysao could then construct, host and maintain.  more...

Media Services

Scott Morrison Photography

Web site

We worked with Jones Design Associates to design and build a small web site for the photographer, Scott Morrison. The purpose of a site was to generate interest in his work by people are sent a mailer, seen an ad or who have heard about him through word of mouth.  more...

Movies & Entertainment

Ace records

Web site requirements definition

Ace Records had a number of goals for their office database and their web site. We ran a half-day meeting at Ace Records with their web developer present to discuss - and then document - their database and web site requirements.  more...

Publishing & Printing

Harbury Media Ltd

the-racehorse.com web site

In early 2006, we built an online racing magazine web site with Limitless for Harbury Media Ltd. We used the Drupal content management system so that we could meet a tight deadline coinciding with a major racing event.

We developed a new module in PHP to display and maintain three types of articles on two kinds of home pages in a grid format. We made other PHP programming changes to fine-tune Drupal to the client's requirements. The site launched the end of March 2006.  more...

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.

Institute of Physics Publishing

Web site development

The Institute of Physics Publishing hired Limitless to write the software behind an online bookstore that they had already designed and specified. This ultimately involved the development of over 20,000 lines of perl and SQL, and the design and implementation of a web-based administration system to manage the site.  more...

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...

Oxford University Press

Oxford English Dictionary web site redesign

In early 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP) asked us to help reorganise, redesign and redevelop the public area of oed.com, the web site for the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

We had helped design and build the original OED marketing site in 1997, which had been maintained and extended by OUP.

The new site was launched in October 2003.  more...

Oxford University Press

Redesign of OED Online Help

As part of the beta review of OED Online in January 2000, we noted that the Help pages were neither in the same style, nor of the same quality, as the rest of the web site.

We made a number of suggestions and illustrated them with a couple of mocked-up pages; OUP then asked us to apply most of our suggestions to the 43-page help system.  more...

Oxford University Press

Oxford English Dictionary marketing web site

We developed the OED web site prior to the launch of OED Online. The site was to provide general information about the dictionary and promote the online version.

We helped plan the site and then worked closely with the site's graphic designers, Denison Design, to create the web graphics. We created the site's pages in the form of templates and provided CGI scripts for the online forms. OUP added final copy to the pages and maintained the site themselves.  more...

Oxford University Press

OED Online publisher's dummy

In March 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP) asked us to construct a "publisher's dummy", a web site to prototype possible features and functionality of an online version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

The resulting scripted dummy - a linear set of pages designed to cover a range of features and functions - was then taken by OUP to a series of focus group workshops at libraries across the US for market testing.  more...

Oxford University Press

General & technical consultancy

In early 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP) invited Limitless to help them put the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online.

We worked with OUP as general and technical advisers for the OED Online project; we provided both long-term advice and support to the development team, and helped OUP with a variety of design and deployment tasks during the design phase of the project.  more...

Oxford University Press

OED Online Tour

OED Online is an online subscription service to the 20-volume second edition of Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It also provides access to later Additions, and revised and new entries that are added quarterly.

OUP invited us to help them design and build a tour of OED Online to add to the public OED web site.  more...

Reuters

Reuters Insurance Information Services web site

We built a web site for Reuters Insurance Information Services (RIIS) to promote two news insurance information news products. The two products - Reuters Insurance Briefing (RIB) and Reuters Insurance Alert Server (RIAS) - could be used separately or together; one provided regular news briefings whereas the other provided real-time information on demand.

In 1996, these news products were only available as dedicated news feeds using special client software at subscriber sites. The cost of the products were such that Reuters did not expect people to order them online - the main aim of the web site was to encourage visitors to order a free trial.  more...

SilverPlatter

Health & Safety Publishing web site

Limitless were recommended to SilverPlatter to build the Health & Safety Publishing (HSP) web site. HSP publish health and safety information and databases.

HSP wanted to promote and sell their products and include a health and safety magazine, based on Health & Safety World, an existing web site.

We worked with SilverPlatter to help define goals, content and functionality before building the 150-page web site. SilverPlatter would host and maintain the site themselves; online forms read data from CSV files, we provided page templates, a written maintenance manual and style guide, and training.  more...

43 projects listed