Technical consultancy, by completion date

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Technical consultancy is the general catch-all term for providing advice on technically-related matters, based on experience and knowledge. 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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

1996

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...

10 projects listed

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

• Zengrange Technical services (1984-1990)
• Hewlett-Packard Technical consultancy (1995-1996)
• Charity Commission System administration (1991-1993)