Services

We don't start with stunning visuals, but that's where we end up! We create user-centered web sites and applications. We design and build for your users, giving you a real competitive edge in your space.

Design

Orange Bus create beautifully simple web sites. They're clean, intuitive, easy to use, and focused on your customers.

Step 1: User Experience Design: User Experience Design, this is where it all starts. We give you the competitive edge, by first understanding who your customers are, listening to them, then crafting their experience.
Step 2: Visual Design: Add into the mix some brand enhancing visuals, perfectly in-tune with your identity, and the sites usability, and you have the perfect mix of usefulness coupled with jaw dropping good looks.

Solutions

Orange Bus offer a wide range of solutions for the web. We embrace open source technologies to deliver cost effective, secure, stable and trusted solutions for your business.

We're big advocates of Drupal, an open source framework for delivering highly modular web services and solutions. Why trust Drupal? - it's stable, scalable, robust, and has a fantastic community of designers, and developers working to make it the platform of choice for web development. Or just take the word of; Sony BMG, Universal Music, MTV UK, Amnesty International, Nokia, Nike, Yahoo....

Content Management Systems: Orange Bus are experts at delivering usable CMS solutions to clients. Built on top of either Drupal or Django. If you need to manage content on the internet, be that for a website or an intranet/ extranet then being able to do this yourself is a necessity. Orange Bus will work with you to provide you with the CMS that fits your organisations needs.
E-commerce: Online Spending is increasing year on year. According to Verdict Research it 13.9% in 2009 despite overall retail growth declining by 0.6%. Spending online is expected to be worth £56bn by 2014 in the UK alone. An e-commerce offering is essential if you're going to play a part in this. With experience in delivering online shops in fashion, DIY, food and beverages. Orange Bus can help.

Online Marketing

Orange Bus can help you get your organisations message out there. From campaign design and strategy through to implementation.

Email: Orange Bus have delivered effective email campaigns for clients including O'Neill, Fenwick amongst others. We can help you deliver your message to your target audience. From research and concept planning right through to design, testing, build and delivery.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO): We combine a combination of SEO best practice, design principles and a content strategy to help you with your search engine visibility. In combination with targeted search advertising (pay-per-click, ppc), we deliver you the greatest coverage for your campaign.
Analysis and Strategy: In this increasingly complex new age of marketing we find ourselves in. Orange Bus can provide you with the road map you need to make sense of it. We provide you with all that you need to evaluate the campaigns we run, we deliver you the what, where, when, and then the tools to measure. After all "Action without measurement is simply hoping for the best."

Bespoke Development

What sets us apart from other web development shops is that we actually have the expertise to build truly revolutionary tools at scale. We are extremely proud of our in-house development team who have experience developing solutions for governments, large corporates, transport authorities and many other organisations. Our primary goal is to build tools that solve your problems.

Server Side Development: Orange Bus specialize in building robust, fault tolerant, scalable systems, using best of breed open source technologies. We focus on light weight agile, rapid development using a variety of tools from PHP (Drupal) and Python (Django), though to enterprise platforms including Java and .NET.
Client Side Development: A team driven to create memorable user experiences. Orange Bus create cross-browser, compliant, light-weight, standards driven front ends. With expertise in HTML, XHTML, CSS, Flash, Javascript (AJAX).
Application Development: With a long history in rapidly developing and prototyping data intensive applications, on a variety of platforms and technologies. We've got applications still in use by clients all the way back to VB6 and C++, through to Java and .NET. We can join up disparate systems, make sense of data, crunch it, mash it, what ever you want.