Insights & Ideas

Help Change Lives With Pinpoint Pixel

Pinpoint Pixel is a new site we've helped launch this month. It's been an interesting project, a first for us, and one that we want all our clients and followers to get behind. They promote and work with some awesome charities to help change peoples lives and with the help of some conscientious sponsors, Pinpoint Pixel offers you the chance to win brilliant prizes for free! And if you fancy helping out, they'll never turn down a donation!

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Creative Living Blog hellobrit.com Launched

Today, well rather yesterday, saw the launch of a new lifestyle brand, Brit. The brand behind the website hellobrit.com which was designed, built and launched by our team seeks to provide busy, but inspired people with innovative ways to live more simply, beautifully and creatively in and around the home.

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Fashion Photography Exposed of New York Launches

Melissa Rodwell is a Los Angeles fashion photographer with over 21 years experience in the industry. World renowned for her work on campaigns for Virgin, Playboy and Ralph Lauren Melissa now lives her life in New York. In 2008 she set up the Fashion Photography Blog for amateur, student and professional photographers, gossip mongers, groupies, fashionista’s and just simply fans of her work. 

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Pennant Joinery of Andover

Pennant Joinery of Andover is a new business born with over 30 years of genuine hands on experience. Their traditional wood working methods are enhanced by modern machinery and an up to date knowledge that has trained a number of successful apprentices.

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The New Cake Sweet Cake of Oxford Launches

Cake Sweet Cake is a small bakery kitchen in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. Having had an existing site that just wasn't working for their needs Cake Sweet Cake approached us to re-design and re-vamp there existing site and brand with a full content management system sat behind it.

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OZ for iPad Now Available on iTunes

Today we announce the launch of our first collaborative interactive book, OZ. Available now exclusively for the iPad, OZ is a remarkable re-working of the original book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, telling the story in a way never experienced before.

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Web Design in Salisbury

We've just launched Web Design in Salisbury. A microsite for FHOKE in Salisbury and the Wiltshire area. Why? We'll we're well known in the town of Andover for creating great cost effective web sites for local businesses and have started to become known in the Salisbury area after moving offices to a rural location between these two great towns.

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Site Stitcher Building Affordable Websites Quickly

Recently we took a step back to evaluate the services we had been offering. We soon realised as a design led web agency we were denying businesses with budgets of under £1000 the opportunity of having a big agency website. These customers wanted everything the larger sites had to offer but without the big price tag.

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New Website for Hampshire Garage JB Motors

It seems Andover based businesses are starting to realise the value of having an online presence and are really starting to ramp up their online activity. Over the last few months we've launched a number of great eCommerce and Content Managed websites for local businesses and JB Motors of Andover is no exception.

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Andover & Hampshire Personal Trainer Andy Hillier

We’ve just launched a fantastic website for Andover based personal trainer Andy Hillier. Based in the unique Infin8pulse Personal Training Studios, Andy Hillier has successfully built a reputation for one to one personal training, golf fitness and ante and post natal fitness within an excellent training environment. The unique design emphasises Andy's vibrant style to training with a mixture of photography and illustrations to bring Andy's services to life.

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Salisbury Based Alabare Include Launch New Site

We've launched several local sites for Hampshire and Wiltshire businesses recently and in the past week we've seen the launch of Alabaré Include. Based in Salisbury and Devizes, Alabaré Include are the mental health day service for the people of Wiltshire. It is funded by Wiltshire Council and Wiltshire Primary Care Trust and provide adults with functional Mental Health Issues with a number of services to help increase their independence and reduce the need for more intensive care. 

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Andover Based Desina Launch Online Store

Online shops are booming in Hampshire of late. With the launch of Boob Baby in the past few weeks it's now the turn of Desina. Locally based in Andover, Desina makes shopping for bras fun and easy. It's all about the girl that loves her curves. They offer a wide variety of brands, sizes and accessories (including swimwear) to cater for the bustier woman and at the same time make it easy to find your true bra size.

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Versapak. Another Successful Online Shop Launch

It's been a busy time for our latest eCommerce solution just a few weeks ago we launched Boob Baby and then last week saw the launch of Versapak (International).

Versapak were established in 1973 so we knew from the off we were working with a heritage brand that was well know and loved within their industry but a company that wanted to push forward in 2010 and onwards.

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New eCommerce Site Boob Baby

Last week saw the launch of one of our latest eCommerce sites, Boob Baby. Boob Baby is a website supplying breastfeeding equipment and accessories. The website also includes a resource centre, which aims to provide information and advice to mothers who are breastfeeding and also to pregnant ladies who are hoping to breastfeed. Boob Baby is a small, family business run by a husband and wife duo. They pride themselves in not only providing quality products (that include well known brands such as Medela and Phillips) at competitive prices, but also offering outstanding customer service.

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New Sites. New Recognition.

So the past few months have been incredibly busy for us here at FHOKE and June hasn't disappointed yet. Last month we spoke about being recognised and awarded with the South West Top 10 Creative Companies to Watch award which is great for all of us here. After just over a year and a half its great to see we are starting to get recognised within the industry.

We've also launched two new sites this month. Both of these clients we have worked with before so its great to see them wanting to work with us again and again and to see them becoming successful enough to start new ventures

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Coming Up

So apart from the heavy snow and slight disruption to the first week back at the office we're pumped and ready to go for a great 2010. Now settled into our new surroundings (although a country location hasn't seemed too wise the past few days) what else have we got lined up in the coming months and year?

To start with let's give everyone a run down of a few sites that have gone live over the Christmas period and some exciting projects to come in the next few months.

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New NHS Design Approved

After our recent design success of the new NHS Hampshire site we were invited back again to design a new intranet for the county.

Having had several meetings discussing the needs of every user within NHS Hampshire we worked with a very detailed brief and wire-frames to create a design that fulfilled every requirement which has exceeded all of their expectations.

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New eCommerce Launch

One of Hampshire's most successful businesses Elderberry Bridesmaids needed to expand their business online and take advantage of the huge gap left in the online market place for bridesmaids dresses and accessories.

The design of the e-commerce site was of paramount importance as it had to appeal to the style-savvy clientele that are accustomed to Elderberry Bridesmaids. The site we have created uses the great visual photography already used through the store, and to create a place for inspiration and information keeping visitors browsing, buying and coming back for more.

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Sites Get FHOKE'd

Yay! We've just FHOKE'd three new sites this week. These customers have taken advantage of our years of interface design experience and attention to detail when it comes to the build of websites and are already experiencing online success. Our work here isn't over yet though. We'll continue to review the sites in the coming weeks and make tweaks once we know how the sites are working. That's right we continue to make sure the site looks great and works for the customer and user. Go us!

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PreChasm Web Site Goes Live

PreChasm came to FHOKE with the need for a graphically designed website with a simple content management system to manage the site. With a tight deadline the site went through a Beta launch to increase immediate awareness through to the recent full site launch.

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