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19.10.2009 Darmstadt Skype Inc. publishes a case study about Sitewards

Skype Inc.`s case study about Sitewards

After the video shooting at the Sitewards office Skype has now published an extensive case study about the usage of Skype at Sitewards with an accompanying documentation video.

You can now see the complete Video Report on the Skype Website.

 

08.09.2009 Landau Trade fair brochure for TraumjobScout’s vocational counsel

Messebroschüre TraumjobScoutSitewards created an 8 page brochure for TraumjobScout’s presentation at "SPRUNGBRETT", one of Germany’s most important trade fairs for vocational training, academics and continuing education.

Apart from the clear structure of the offered courses, the students, graduates and experienced professionals can learn more about the philosophy and style of work of the consultants from the Palatinate.

 

 

31.08.2009 Egelsbach Comprehensive design services for AutoHirch

AutoHirch Print-Design 2009Sitewards has designed a complete line of advertising and marketing collateral for the leading car dealer of Germany AutoHirch.

The material is expected to polish the image of the company, which is celebrating 40 years in business since its founding in 1969, and inform customers of the new services planned and being offered on the extended premises.

Read more about the 3D animation we made for AutoHirch.

 

 

20.08.2009 Frankfurt Sitewards designs the soundtrack cover for the novel "Nachleben"

Ruge Soundtrack NachlebenWhat is a book without the right music accompanying it? After the implementation and programming of the website for the publishing house and their book, the Ruge Publishers asked Sitewards to design a soundtrack CD for Fredun Kianpour’s novel "Nachleben". Sitewards designed the CD booklet, inlay and labels for the soundtrack’s standard and promotion editions based on the corporate design already created by the ADIT GmbH.

The complete design offers a serious and classic style and uses images that create the right atmosphere for the crime thriller.

06.08.2009 Düsseldorf/Griesheim Online business card generator for Vodafone

Arcor, a customer of Sitewards‘ print partner HMD-Druck, was bought over by Vodafone. As part of the strategy to fully integrate Arcor into the Vodafone Group, the brilliant and easy-to-use business card generator that Arcor used was taken over by Vodafone Germany into its system. Sitewards – the creator of this system – was commissioned for the change of the configuration software to create Vodafone cards based on Vodafone’s Corporate Design Guidelines.

Now Vodafone employees, especially the sales teams, can use the fast business card generator from Sitewards and streamline a process that was otherwise a large overhead.

24.06.2009 Egelsbach A peep into the future with 3D animation

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For some time now a 3D Flash animation shows visitors of "autohirch.com" the planned changes and extension of the company’s premises. A new auto workshop with an accessories depot is coming up until October 2009 on the approximately 8,500 sq. m. of new premises. Until February 2010 this will be extended by a car wash facility and self service vacuuming hoses.

The animation also attracts website visitors to learn more about the extended service offerings of the (new) full service company – auto service, inspections, repair and wash.

The animation will be extended to show the development of the company over the 40 years since its founding in 1969.

Update: AutoHirch has also commissioned Sitewards for a redesign of the website and search interface for the cars.

22.04.2009 Weiterstadt New website with Magento Webshop for ICLETTA

ICLETTASitewards created a new website with an integrated webshop for the exclusive importer of recumbent bicycles and accessories. The ICLETTA customers are generally well informed, passionate and have high educational qualification. The exclusive recumbents are manufactured manually for them with careful craftsmanship and regularly win competitive product tests and praise in periodicals.

Until recently the young company only presented itself on an online Blog. But for ICLETTA's profesisonal marketing it was soon necessary to have a beautiful website to present the recumbents true to their spirit and to sell the accessories online.

Sitewards created a website, which is unique in ICLETTA's competitive environment. In addition to several features in the website the modern and powerful open source webshop system Magento was rolled out. This included several features like User-to-User-Recommendation, order processing and payment. On the graphic side, on the basis of the existing corporate design a modern screen design was created, which lends the high quality products their well deserved presentation platform.

Further features are planned and being developed - watch out for more!

15.04.2009 Rosbach-Rodheim Relaunch of the Image Website for the family-owned enterprise Elektro-Winkler

Elektro-WinklerElektro-Winkler is engaged in the business of high quality electrical installations since the founding of the family owned business in 1890.

After several design and webdesign projects including a complete website redesign in 2006 we executed a design relaunch for the image website of Elektro-Winkler. The new modern and sleek design offers more space for current information and faster orientation and navigation for the visitors of the website. An indirect background lighting behind the banner and elegant colour shades create a supportive association with the service and product line of the company, e.g. lighting systems, noble metals and steel.

Moreover the awards that the company has won over the recent years and the voluntary service that Mr. Winkler engages in build a healthy image for the company's online presence. Even the Flash animation, which is visible on each page of the website, reflects the high quality work.

The implementation of the website is on the newest technological basis.

23.03.2009 Darmstadt Website for Ruge Verlag

Ruge VerlagSitewards created a new website for the Ruge Management GmbH based on a screendesign from ADIT GmbH, Frankfurt.

The website is based on Dreamweaver templates, so that our customer can update the content of the website using Adobe Contribute. Therefore all kinds of content changes are possible and being undertaken by the customer without a Content Management System.

Further important features of the website include:

  • Google SiteSearch – a free indexed search function for the whole website.
  • ZIP-code search – the website visitor has the option of searching for the nearest city for the next book reading by the author.
  • Backend for book readings – the customer has a comfortable AJAX based web interface to enter the book reading locations and dates.

You can visit the new Ruge website at: www.ruge-verlag.de

19.03.2009 Flörsheim-Wicker Autohaus Ullrich gets an optimised car database and online search

"The most current car database on the website in a suitable graphical interface" and "the complete database should be searchable on the website", were the basic requests from Autohaus Ullrich for Sitewards.

Sitewards created a complex web application for the hourly synchronization of the cars database and created a new website interface for the search and presentation of the cars. We used an AJAX-based classification filter for the search, which dynamically delivers the number of possible cars for a certain search option the moment the options are clicked and changed.

Try it out here!

10.03.2009 Darmstadt Magento Webshop for exclusive men’s wear.

Corporate ShopsThe Sitewards team developed a new webshop selling branded men’s clothing for Corporate Shops UG. For the design of the shop, it was important to plan the usability for the target group (corporate clients and their employees).

The job involved the design of the webshop and converting it into a Magento webshop template. Additionally it was important for the design to be flexible for reuse in other partner shops. Therefore we created a generic and modular Magento template to facilitate this sort of flexibility and easy conversions.

03.03.2009 Darmstadt Product presentation – document folders from Senator

SenatorSitewards created an online product presentation for the leading advertising merchandise manufacturer Senator GmbH & Co. KGaA.

The focus of the presentation is the collection of elegant document folders, with a useful distribution of pockets and internal accessories. The presentation was created as an interactive Flash microsite in order to display the various features and applications of the folders.

20.02.2009 Darmstadt Schenck RoTec gets another "Pasio" product presentation from Sitewards

Schenck-PasioThe contract for the new Pasio website was the fourth order from Schenck RoTec for Sitewards. Sitewards has already designed and constructed the websites for the horizontal balancing machines, "Pasio", and the vertical balancing machine, „Virio“. We also developed the website for the company anniversary of Carl Schenck AG. The focus of the new website was the simultaneous presentation of two new machines: "Pasio 5" and "Pasio 50".

One of the key requirements for the new online presentation was the design in accordance with the corporate identity of Schenck RoTec. A key feature of the website is the animated introduction for Pasio. Even the introduction of the machines are accompanied by small animations, which provide the visitor with good “insights”. Through the multilingual structure of the website it is possible to get information on the machines in 5 different languages.