Glide Digital
www.glidedigital.co.uk
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nick@glidedigital.co.uk
An Introduction to
authored by
Managing Director
Nick Tingay MSc Computer Science
Updated October 2013
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About Us
Located in the City of London, Glide Digital is a boutique web agency offering, design, development and IT
services to a broad range of clients from small start-ups to large multi-national corporations.
We build creative web solutions for a broad range of industry sectors including charities, arts, public
sector, retail, manufacturing, law & finance.
We specialise in:
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bespoke client & server applications (built in ASP.NET using C# & VB.NET)
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blogs (WordPress, BuddyPress)
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ecommerce solutions (Magento, Zen Cart, nopCommerce)
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content management (Orchard)
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internal systems (integration with SAGE, Windows Services)
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mobile web apps
Portfolio
Go straight to my Property portfolio.
Go straight to my ASP.NET portfolio.
Go straight to my Ecommerce portfolio.
Go straight to my WordPress portfolio.
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Our Development Ethos
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Contemporary
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Intuitive
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Accessible
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User friendly
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Client friendly
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Google friendly
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Robust
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Secure
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Scalable
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Flexible
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Maintainable
Testimonials
“I've used nick both to build and maintain websites for the last 6 years. he's a good guy. he is
very honest and approach, knows what he's doing and approaches problems with a can do
attitude. he has been an essential part in the growth and success of PRmoment.com and
PRmoment.in.”
Ben Smith Director at PRmoment
“Nick has done a really great job, and I have appreciated his patience and perseverance in the
pursuit of perfection! (Not always easy)”
Elizabeth Dunley Finance Director at Conran & Partners
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ASP.NET Portfolio
Client: The Mighty Boosh
Brief: To build a promotional website to accompany The Mighty Boosh's tour documentary release:
Journey of the Childmen which documents the mad cap cartoon pirates on their mammoth Future Sailors
tour proving to be the ultimate backstage pass into the chaos and genius of The Mighty Boosh.
Outcome: The brief was fulfilled by designing & developing a colourful, vibrant & eye-catching website
that might go some way to summing up the colour, chaos & zeitgeist appeal of The Mighty Boosh. The
client liked the design so much that they eventually used it for their core site.
Technology: Bespoke site in ASP.NET built around a strong creative
Site: www.journeyofthechildmen.co.uk
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Client: PRmoment
Brief: To develop online PR magazine
Outcome: PRmoment offers its readers insight and opinion into the world of public relations. It has since
become one of the most trafficked online journals within the PR industry second only to PR Week.
PRmoment has recently expanded into India for which Glide were also commissioned to carry out the
web build.
Features: Bespoke CMS, news posts, comment submission & moderating, webcasts, conferences,
training, jobs feed, blog, blog feed, newsletter subscription, social media
Technology: ASP.NET, AJAX, jQuery, Linq, XML parser, integrate CKEditor & image cropper within CMS
Sites: www.prmoment.com | www.prmoment.in | blog.prmoment.com [screenshots below]
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Client: Lansons Communications
Brief: To build a webcast hub that facilitates streaming of webcasts on financial-related matters allowing
users to submit questions to experts and receive real-time answers.
Outcome: 8 years, 200 webcasts & 30,000 questions later chataboutmoney is still growing from strength
to strength and continues to broadcast webcasts on a variety of financial topics such as investments,
pensions, insurance & property for a variety of clients such as Scottish Widows, Lloyds TSB, M&S Money,
LV=, AT&T Williams, NSPCC, The Share Centre, HiFX, KPMG, Société Générale, Savills, FSA, Hargreaves
Lansdown, PayPal, Unbiased, moneysupermarket.com...
Guests: Guests have included: Sarah Beeney (property expert), Yvette Cooper MP (then Shadow Home
Secretary), Nico Hulkenberg (Williams AT&T), Ray Boulger, John Charcol (mortgage expert), Ian Naismith,
Scottish Widows (pension expert)
Syndication: Webcast content is frequently syndicated to a variety of money channels, portals and
websites including: Orange, The Independent, AOL, MSN, Reuters, MyFinances, The Daily Telegraph, This
Is Money, Sky, What Investment...
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Front-end: Question submission panel, Q&A panel, on-demand footage, downloadable podcasts,
social media sharing
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Back-end: Event builder, white label creation tool
Technology: VB.NET, C#.NET, Classic ASP, Podcasts
Site: www.chataboutmoney.co.uk
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Examples of syndicated chataboutmoney content:
Link: www.moneysupermarket.com/c/web-chats/sarah-beeny-answers-your-questions/
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Link: www.scottishwidows.co.uk/webchat
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Client: NSPCC / ChildLine
Brief: To build vibrant website to promote charity concert ChildLine Rocks
Outcome: For ChildLine we were contracted to build a website to promote their annual charity concert
ChildLine Rocks. This meant several meetings at the NSPCC head offices where the main ChildLine call
centre is based. Working closely with the ChildLine charity team including patron and DJ legend;
'Whispering' Bob Harris (BBC Radio 2) we designed and built a colourful and vivid website.
Features: News, ecommerce ticket purchase, photo gallery
Technology: ASP.NET, integration with payment gateway WorldPay
Site: www.childlinerocks.org.uk
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Ecommerce Portfolio
Ecommerce solution for London-based engineering firm Small Order Springs.
Shopping cart software: Magento
Custom-built stock monitoring application for tool manufacturers Am-Tech:
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Highly bespoke ecommerce solution for London based spare parts firm Tomo Parts Ltd.
Shopping cart software: Zen Cart
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WordPress Portfolio
Client: PRmoment, PR magazine
Brief: Build sister blog for online PR magazine PRmoment.
Outcome: PRmoment is now emerging as the fastest growing online journal within the PR industry
placing a close second behind its main rival PR Week. We are currently undertaking the expansion of
PRmoment into India.
Technology: Highly bespoke Wordpress implementation.
Link: blog.prmoment.com
Client: Speed Communications, PR Company, Leicester Square
Link: www.speedcommunications.com
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Client: Ketchum Pleon
Brief: PR multinational Ketchum Pleon approached us to build a community site for their Belgian client
with the objective of raising awareness on how the vehicles and transport we use will evolve and
influence 21st Century life.
Outcome: The Our Future Mobility Now website & annual motor show held in Brussels brings together
the mobile generation of the future and Europe’s leading vehicle manufacturers.
Technology: Highly bespoke Wordpress implementation using Buddy Press community plugin
Link: www.futuremobilitynow.com
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Client: Lansons Communications
Brief: Build blog for Lansons Live the digital / broadcast deaprtment of Lansons Communications; one of
the top PR agencies in the country, with more nominations and awards than any other UK PR consultancy
Outcome: Vibrant, engaging, vibrant multi-media blog
Technology: Highly bespoke Wordpress implementation
Link: www.lansonslive.com
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Client: UnderConstruction Theatre
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Property Portfolio
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