Web & Software Development
We provide web development and web design services for the vast majority of our clients, as it remains the cornerstone of your online value offering.
We couple our Web Dev work with DevOps as a managed service, to ensure security and minimise downtime.
See any specific areas of our web development skill set you are interested in, then pick up the phone and tell us what you're working on if you think we might be interested!
Our Services:
Cloudinary is a software that allows you to store, manage and transform images. It is so powerful, it can transform images on the fly reducing their size by up to 85% without reducing their quality. One of the best things about Cloudinary is that it can transform images on the fly. Having a lot of images on your website you no longer have to choose between image quality and page loading speed!
What do you think it’s like to acquire a DevOps agency to manage your hosting, site performance and development workflow? We break down the tasks a DevOps engineer will carry out on a daily basis, including their roles and responsibilities, so you can see how it helps to have an internal or contracted DevOps specialist on-hand to help.
User experience design is the practice of improving the usability, enjoyment and interactions with a product or service. Through designing products with user interaction in mind we can provide meaningful, relevant and pleasurable user experiences. Happy customers will spend more of their hard earned cash with you.
Prototypes are often drawn on paper, or digitally using design software such as sketch or invision. They are created in order to test a concept or process, with the intention of learning from it and improving the end result. Find out how we can prototype for your project in an agile manner today!
Reducing the time it takes to load a page on your website, without altering the content, is called page speed optimisation. Faster pages rank higher in Google's search results pages, and convert more customers. Both of these are known facts, well documented by Google, Walmart, the BBC, and Amazon.
This qualifies as our "core offering", but the reality is that the design, development & deployment of a new website is really just the very tip of what we do as an agency for our clients.
From research to planning, design, development, training, deployment, launch and support, we have the project management processes in place to robustly handle a project of any size.
Getting Drupal developers involved in your Drupal build would be wise. As a strong contender for an long term and enterprise-grade content management system, it continues to scoop high profile builds one after another.
We are Joomla Developers. Since Joomla! was released back in 2005, the web developers here at 3B have been in among the founders helping to suggest tweaks and improvements to the benefit of our clients.
Web Development Projects
Websites are our passion and building them remains the bedrock of what 3B is, but in reality they serve as a platform from which to launch a comprehensive "Digital Marketing Strategy".
Whether that strategy involves individual elements of Content Marketing, the sharing of Social Objects, driving traffic towards defined financial goal conversions or all of the above, a well built and managed site that has been designed with optimisation and user journeys in mind is what our clients most need - and what we deliver every time!
Our business process and Project Management best practices have been developed and refined over 16 years of "front line" client liaison & management; we're really good at this and thrive on the mutual respect, trust and good humour that underpin all our professional relationships.
Examples of our web development work:
We have, over the years, had the privilege of abusing the hospitality of various clients and associates - none more enthusiastically indulged than when our great friend, client - and original “B” in 3B - Guy Bradshaw of Stoneticket invites Jack, Alex or both to join him at one of MBN extraordinary Sports lunches or dinners.
RSM had been a valued client of ours since 2013. When in 2015 they began their global roll-out of their new corporate brand, and we were delighted and honoured to be brought into the process right from the very beginning.
The requirements BADA have of us vary enormously over the years; they host and manage one of the largest and most prestigious annual Fine Arts & Antique Fairs in the UK.
We decided to build the Royal Albert Memories site to allow people to share those stories, bringing them all together in one place rather than just siloed on the various social media platforms.
Database sites are beasts. By definition they grow, and by design they are adaptable and endlessly re-interpretable. They require a depth of imagination and technical acumen to design properly, as well as no small amount of bravery (to take on) that only comes with experience.
The challenge here was to transpose the look and feel of an existing Joomla site that we'd built for PP years previously onto what can be a fairly restrictive template (at least in terms of complete layout and styling freedom).
RedDoor Homes came to us with a beautiful but a very slow website. They explained to us their USP - creating engaging video content to help prospective & existing clients. Their portfolio includes virtual viewings, tips for landlords, tenants, homeowners; reviews of local cafes, restaurants & events.
A lovely challenge, this; a branding that speaks of a geographical location can very easily become a stereotypical & patronising rendering that misses the fundamentals of the proposition… in other words, it can all very quickly look a bit “touristy”..!
RKG are a creative and innovative Architectural practice and so had strong but changeable views on design and presentation. Fortunately Squarespace is ideal for the rapid prototyping and deployment and ideas were implemented speedily.
We hate timesheets, and have come to understand that most people do. They’re also boring, and not very accurate! Given that our clients always want transparency (one of our values), we knew we needed to use a system which was fun, accurate and simple to use.
A genuinely fascinating and engaging project, this; a presentation of a database of painted works so immersive and layered as to hold our professional and personal attention pretty much solidly for the last 7 months.
Personal brands are understandably emotionally charged personal statements by the protagonists and digital and design agencies tread carefully where content, look and feel are concerned. But 3B saw this as a terrific opportunity to make a bold statement of intent in what is a growing market of sports personalities looking to maximise exposure online.
What singles this particular project out as a deeply satisfactory Squarespace instance is that - for once - absolutely no code injection or css overrides were required; this site is absolutely standard in terms of code and template presets, and this reflected in the fact that it was delivered for less than half of the original estimated cost.
This single page interface we recently deployed on the RSM Global site has proved extremely popular and successful. We were delighted to see it being demonstrated to their Internationally dispersed members & employees during their recent World Conference.
Theirs are not the kind of customers who are willing to accept bugs or slow loading pages because their time is too valuable. For this reason we realised that Squarespace would provide the ideal backdrop for a responsive and unique theme, without compromising on the feel of the site.
Map out a web Development project with us
We have hot coffee, a warm conference room and a really big telly upon which we can showcase & demonstrate the great stuff available to you in this wonderful digital world.