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Prototyping is building a working model quickly that allows the demonstration or study of the salient features of a system, so that sensible decisions about how to build the real system can be taken. more...

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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...

2009

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.

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.

2005

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...

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...

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.

2004

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...

2003

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...

2002

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...

2000

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

1999

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...

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...

1998

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...

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...

1997

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...

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...

20 projects listed

We also provided this service on six noteworthy past projects, before starting Internet work.

• Zengrange HP-41 Emulator for HP-48 (1989-1990)
• Zengrange Technical services (1984-1990)
• Seagram Graphical reporting system (1993-1994)
• Seagram Ad-hoc reporting system (1994)
• Charity Commission System administration (1991-1993)
• JP Morgan Client Information System (1992-1993)