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		<title>Making brilliant design work</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working with designers is a significant part of our business and over the past few months we&#8217;ve been busy with a number of projects. Some projects we can talk about but others we cant mention specific names for various reasons. We&#8217;ve no ambition to become a design agency but design contributes to every project we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Working with designers is a significant part of our business and over the past few months we&#8217;ve been busy with a number of projects. Some projects we can talk about but others we cant mention specific names for various reasons. We&#8217;ve no ambition to become a design agency but design contributes to every project we do. <strong>Our focus</strong> is on system design, usability and the development of websites and applications &#8211; something that most designers dont want to or can&#8217;t do well. Projects over the past few months include:</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.smbtech.co.uk/images/pmap.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="260" />Client: <strong>Design Agency / Public Sector</strong></p>
<p>Project: <strong>Standalone Interactive Tool</strong></p>
<p>Technology: Adobe Air, jQuery, Javascript, CSS</p>
<p>Highlights:</p>
<p>This project involved the development of an interactive tool for capturing details about the steps/actions in a business process and generating a colour-coded process map based on the selected options. The tool is used at events and workshops, and also captures the contact details of people interested in the workshop and/or those that have completed the process mapping survey.  The details entered are saved in a secure local (computer) database so that the user can download them to a csv (comma separated value) file that could be imported into a spreadsheet. </p>
<p>The tool utilised Adobe Air technology to allow it to be run on a PC, Mac or Linux computers as well as be distributed as a download from a website or sent as an attachment via email.</p>
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<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.smbtech.co.uk/images/comb_uoo_sml.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="187" />Client: <strong>Design Agency / Public Sector</strong></p>
<p>Project: <strong>Web based application</strong></p>
<p>Technology: PHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS</p>
<p>Highlights:</p>
<p>The project was delivered within a very short turnaround &#8211; 10 days from project approval. On the front end it is a pre-course survey booking application that captures potential attendee details and stores them in a database. Course leaders can then view all the applicants, approve their application and download their details. In addition to the requirements we created a visual candidate ranking feature that gives the course leader a quick view of the most appropriate course applicants.</p>
<p>Both projects highlight just how easy and cost-effective a custom application can be written for your business, based on good requirements specification and a little development magic from SMBTECH.</p>
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