Brilliant Internet - Creative Website and Internet Media Solutions

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Brilliant are an independent creative design communication and strategic marketing agency based in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. We are experts at creative website design and build, website development and online marketing for a highly diverse client base; not to mention Brilliant have full brand development and off-line strategic marketing communications talent to complete our marcomms offering.


Brilliant Creative Website Design

Brilliant produces website design with creative flair, beauty, usability and accessibility. We are a specialist design company who develop information and interface architecture that complements, reflects and develops our clients' brand identity and market perceptions.

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    • Brilliant Website Development Solutions

    Practical eCommerce solutions, Simple Content Management Systems (CMS), flexible intranet design, extranet design and clever online applications; Brilliant are a team of highly skilled website developers & website architects who have the ability and potential to build the right website for your business or organisation.

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    • Brilliant Website Marketing

    Genuine Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Managed Pay Per Click Campaigns (PPC), creative web banner advertising, email marketing solutions, online investor relations information, creative online marketing campaigns, product and event micro sites and creative viral marketing; at Brilliant we are always return-on-investment focused.

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    • The Facts About Brilliant

    The Facts About Brilliant

    Brilliant is an independent brand identity design and strategic marketing agency based in Sawbridgeworth, Hertdfordshire, UK – situated halfway between London Stansted Airport, near Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire (J8 of M11) and Harlow, Essex (J7 of M11)

    Although Brilliant is a multi-disciplined agency, the majority of our clients initially engage us for our brand identity and strategic marketing services, with many projects beginning with website and internet marketing related components.

    An award winning company, Brilliant have achieved many local accolades and have also been featured on BBC Television.

    Brilliant are a close-knit team of in-house creative, technical and strategic marketing specialists who wholly enjoy what they do and what they do best.

    Two thirds of our new client and project acquisitions are achieved through business to business referrals and repeat or ongoing business.

    Brilliant's success has resulted from forming long-term client/agency relationships and this is fundamental to all of its business objectives.

    Brilliant will continue to grow for as long as our people enjoy creativity and share a common goal to achieve positive results for all our clients.

    Our Facilities

    Our Website Design Facilities

    Fully restored Tudor building, with comfortable and pleasant meeting and presentation facilities.

    In the centre of Sawbridgeworth, our studio offers immediate access to banks, shops, cafιs and a generous choice of pubs and restaurnats.

    Within 45 minutes of the City of London and 15 minutes from London Stansted Airport; near Harlow and Bishops Stortford with excellent road and rail links to both.

    Daily, rotational on-site and off-site back up of current working files and archive – whatever the world throws at us, we can only ever be a maximum of 24hrs behind schedule!

    Cross-platform design studio technology, operating the latest Apple Mac, PC and Unix design software and hardware.

    Independent and dedicated private Web and Email host server with regular backup schedule and immediate retrieval facilities – power outages and human error happen!

    Our Skills

    Creative Skills

  • Branding & corporate identity design and development
  • Creative concept design and development
  • Website & eMedia design and Marketing
  • Copywriting
  • Creative, studio and location photography
  • Illustration and animation


    • Brilliant are a Hertfordshire based, multi-disciplined design agency – learn more about our application of design at the Brilliant Design Solutions website


    We can complement our website skills with:

  • Marketing consultancy
  • Printed literature and print design solutions
  • Advertising and promotional campaigns
  • Exhibition and point-of-sale display design
  • Packaging design


    • Further details are available from the Brilliant Limited website


    Technical Skills

  • Website interface development
  • Database design
  • Search Engine Optimisation
  • Email marketing solutions
  • Online software applications
  • Games programming
  • Remote Web and mail server management



    • Management Skills

  • Project and production management
  • Creative and technical consultancy
  • Strategic marketing and planning
  • Online marketing and advertising deployment
  • Competitor analysis and reporting


    • Creative Website Design

    Website Design and More...

    Brilliant work passionately at creating and delivering interactive online experiences and applications that inspire, inform and effectively communicate your message to your online audience.

    Brilliant's specialist team have a highly diverse skill set with a healthy measure of experience in their respective fields. Combined with the highest understanding of most current and emerging technologies, Brilliant provide a totally integrated service:


    Brilliant Creative Website Design

    Brilliant design websites, interfaces and online applications. Our skills enable us to realise, create and extend your brand identity online and we offer a number of creative services including developing online style guides and templates, content architecture and advice on accessibility issues.

  • Learn about our Enterprise – Bespoke Solutions Process
  • Learn about our Business – Packaged Solutions Process


    • Website & Online Application Development

    Brilliant's programmers are trained and certified developers and are skilled in creating a diverse range of online media, such as:

  • eCommerce websites (online stores)
  • Content Management Systems (CMS)
  • Intranets and extranets
  • Streaming media solutions

    • We provide future-proof, scalable answers to many commercial and promotional questions.

  • Learn more about website development


    • Interactive Games and Applications

    We specialise in developing interactive Flash applications and games. Whether it be an interactive CD ROM or a viral marketing game or animation, we have the skills to develop bespoke solutions.

  • Learn more about online marketing


    • Website Hosting, Domain Names

    Brilliant provides a number of fast, robust and reliable hosting and server management solutions with domain name registrar services for domain names and secure certificates (required for eCommerce solutions).

  • Learn more about website hosting


    • If you are interested in having your website re-designed, please call us for a FREE WEBSITE AUDIT on (local rate) 0845 260 61 61

    Website Development Solutions

    Website Development Solutions

    Our programmers are trained and certified developers and are skilled in creating a range of custom online solutions such as:

  • eCommerce Websites
  • Intranets & Extranets
  • Content Management Systems (CMS)
  • Online Applications

    • We provide future-proof, scalable answers to many commercial and promotional questions.



    Content Management Systems (CMS)

    Online and secured, browser-based website content management is usually high on our clients' list of requirements. The ability to add, edit and delete content via an intuitive and non-technical interface has many website development and long-term advantages:

  • Reduced maintenance costs
  • Fewer publishing and content errors
  • Less reliance on IT department/staff – content originators and editors can work directly to the website
  • Shortened lead times for online information availability



    • SPRK - Content Management System

    Brilliant have developed a CMS solution we call 'SPRK', providing tiered levels of functionality and editability, including:

  • Flexibility to change menu structures
  • Ability to deal with media (upload and link to images, .pdfs,
    MS Word files, sound and video)
  • Multi-tiered administration access

    • Brilliant do not use off-the-shelf solutions – our content management solutions are tailored explicitly to the individual requirements of your business or organisation – providing 100% compatability with your requirements and performance aspirations.

    Other bolt-on solutions have recently included:

  • Editable store content and stock management
  • Integration with an online CRM facility
  • Ability to use the CMS to generate printable .pdf material in conjuction with browser display content



    • eCommerce Solutions

    Dependent on your requirements, Brilliant will develop a solution that matches your needs and your budget. Possible solutions could include:

  • Shopping cart and check-out functionality so that customers can buy online securely
  • Product catalogues that allows you to add, amend and delete content (product price, info, pictures) via a simple administration system
  • Bespoke systems to manage more extensive product ranges or requirements, such as product personalisation or streamlining your entire sales process
  • Built-in stock control processing and management
  • eMarketing solutions – push your acquired purchaser data to the limit with measurable email marketing and cross-selling messaging

    • Please contact Craig McKenzie or Luke Whiston for further information on content management systems and eCommerce solutions on 0845 260 61 61

    Website Marketing

    Website Marketing

    eMarketing provides measureable results for your business. We do this by developing integrated campaigns that target your audience through cost effective, multi-channel, online activities.

    Utilising proven methods, we are able to develop campaigns that:

  • Promote your brand by increasing exposure and awareness to a targeted audience using online communication
  • Develop and deliver a clear message or proposition e.g. visit our website; call/text us; join up; subscribe to mailing; enter competition; visit your nearest store; buy at our sale; redeem value of this voucher
  • Develop systems that allow you to communicate and interact with your audience on a regular basis
  • Monitor all activities and provide meaningful management reports

    • We provide a campaign management service giving you a single point of contact for a range of in-house services. Here are just some of the tools in the Brilliant tool-kit:


    Email Marketing

  • Email stationery such as an email header/footer or signature, ezines (newsletters) and emailed promotional flyers
  • User configurable online mail delivery systems
  • Online data capture and dynamic campaign monitoring
  • Data sourcing via opt-in email address lists from data owners such as Thomsons Business


    • Search Engine Marketing

  • Search engine registration and website optimisation
  • Performance guarantees and measurable rank reporting
  • Search engine 'pay-per-click' advertising


    • Banner Advertising

  • Advertising planning and managment
  • Creative banner solutions, including animation, file size optimisation and delivery
  • Campaign monitoring and click-through reporting
  • Affiliate scheme management for added revenue streams


    • Viral Marketing

  • Inventive and creative viral marketing solutions
  • Viral games and eToys
  • Campaign monitoring and management


    • Web Site Hosting and Internet Services

    Website Hosting & Internet Services

    Brilliant's powerful, resilient and flexible hosting services are dedicated to our website and online media customers only. We will ensure your website maintains it's availability to your customers at all times.

    Whether you are a large organisation with an extensive site and complex requirements or a small business looking to host your first website, Brilliant has a solution to suit.


    Basic Commercial Web Hosting

    Our basic commercial hosting solutions are designed for small- to medium-sized companies with hosting needs of up to 1Gb data transfer a month. Delivering high availability and performance, our hosting packages will provide you with a reliable and robust service. Benefits include:

  • Superb performance with a high-bandwidth connection ensuring your website can be downloaded quickly
  • Access to daily, weekly and monthly website traffic statistic reports presented in an easy-to-understand way
  • A scalable solution that can be expanded simply as your site grows
  • Effective security options to ensure that your site, or certain areas of it, can only be seen by people you specify (if required)
  • Control Panel access provides all the control you need of your POP3 email mailboxes and reports
  • Expert technical support, with agreed maintenance and support service levels just in case the worst should happen
  • The latest scripting and database technologies included
  • Prompt domain name services

    • Basically, we'll take complete care of your hosting, allowing you to concentrate on your website.


    Advanced Commercial Website Hosting

    Brilliant's advanced managed hosting packages provide resilient and versatile solutions for organisations with more complex, technical or high demand requirements. In addition to all the benefits of the basic managed hosting package, these services offer a wide variety of options:

  • Superb performance and availability for high bandwidth consumption
  • Development and management of a stand alone, scalable server, dedicated to your business alone
  • A variety of multi-processor server solutions to choose from
  • Our co-hosting services offer you the opportunity to use your own server whilst we maintain the system and environment
  • Bespoke solutions to run large and complex databases such as MySQL or ACCESS

    • For our rate card and/or more technical details of our services, please contact Craig McKenzie on 0845 260 61 61 or drop us a line via the Contact Us page



    Enterprise Case Studies

    Grosvenor Fabrications
    Leading supplier of conference, banqueting & restaurant furniture

    Servocell
    Servocell develop unique piezo-ceramic based actuator technology within high volume global security applications.

    Pitney Bowes
    Franking Machines For Small Business

    The MP3 Company
    MP3 Player and associated products eStore

    TheGivingMachine
    Support your favourite schools and charities with cash donations provided by big name retailers when you buy online

    Videcom
    CCTV and Access Control design & installation

    Stortford Interiors
    Major contractor specialising in the supply and installation of wall, ceiling and total interior solutions for the commercial workplace

    Chip & PIN Solutions
    Mobile credit card payment terminals

    W.E.Marson & Company
    Manufacturers of quality laboratory furniture and fittings

    CareTech UK
    Quality housing and support services for adults with a range of learning and physical disabilities

    Paul Stalker Consulting
    Life and personal development coaching

    Business Case Studies

    Advanced Fluoropolymer Technology
    AFT specialise in machining and fabrication of Fluoropolymer precision components.

    Debtor Book Solutions
    Cash flow solutions and debt collection services for the medical profession

    Biosense Medical
    UK distributor of medical equipment and supplies

    Candy Crystal
    Designer Swarovski Crystal Jewellery eStore

    Credit & Business Finance
    Specialist credit insurance broker

    Harlow Chamber of Commerce
    Business support organisation with over 250 members in and around Harlow

    Mistley Bathroom Glass
    Home of low iron, optically clear glass for bathrooms

    Diamond Biopharm
    Regulatory Consultants for Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) Testing

    Impressions Bridal
    Bridal and occasion wear

    Tosh & Co.
    Made to Measure Doors and Accessories for Kitchens, Bedrooms and Bathrooms

    House Proud Home Improvements
    Domestic windows, doors and conservatories

    James Winston Underwear
    21st Century quality, fit and innovation in men’s underwear production!

    Karmann Ghia Centre
    Sales and restoration of the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia

    How to Find Us

    How to Find Us

  • Scaleable and printable Google Map
  • Visiting by rail from London or London Stansted Airport?

    • Brilliant Limited
    Drake House, 2 Duckling Lane, Sawbridgeworth, Herts CM21 9QA
    0845 260 61 61

    Directions by car then on foot

    From M11 (J7),
    or A414 through Harlow or A414 from Ware (A10)

    Once you arrive in Sawbridgeworth from Harlow, you will need to take a right-hand turn into Bell Street (Sawbridgworth High Street). The turning is just before a set of pedestrian traffic lights and just after the 'White Lion' public house...

    From M11 (J8),
    or London Stansted Airport (A120)

    Once you arrive in Sawbridgeworth from Bishop's Stortford, you will need to take a left hand turn into Bell Street (Sawbridgworth High Street). The turning is just after a set of pedestrian traffic lights and just before the 'White Lion' public house...

    Continued...

  • Ideally you should park your vehicle in the main 'Pay & Display' car park (the entrance to which is the first right-hand turning off Bell Street) and walk the rest of the way to the end of Bell Street.
  • When you arrive at the end of Bell Street, you will be at a cross roads with Knight Street, look across 'The Square' to your right, you will see an archway, between 'Douglas Bride and Grooms' wedding shop and 'Wiggies' barber shop. Walk through the archway.
  • Brilliant are the last door on the left.


    • Visitors by Rail

    Sawbridgeworth Town Station is on the London Liverpool Street to Cambridge line, operated by One Rail.

    A taxi service operates from 'The Maltings' across the road from the station exit.

    To walk to our offices from Sawbridgeworth train station takes approximately 10 minutes.

    Directions from Sawbridgeworth Train Station

  • Proceed west out of the station exit, with the Maltings buildings (commercial units with John Miles Tyre Centre nearest to you) on your left and over the 'River Stort'.
  • Shortly after crossing the road bridge and on a right-hand bend is a left-hand residential turning into The Forebury. Proceed up the hill, along the footpath of the speed-humped road. This road will end, but continue along the footpath, picking up the road again and passing the primary school on your left and library on your right.
  • You will come to a T-Junction at Knight Street (with Barclays Bank on the opposite side of the street). Turn left and continue along Knight Street, until you reach 'Douglas Bride and Grooms' wedding shop and 'Wiggies' barber shop. Walk through the archway between them.
  • Brilliant is the last door on the left.


    • Vacancies

    Vacancies

    No vacancies at present.

    Enterprise Website Solutions

    Enterprise Solutions

    Bespoke website solutions

  • Corporate level, tailored website solutions
  • Full consultancy service and strategic planning
  • Successful integration with marketing and branding

    • Our process provides a user-friendly visual demonstration based approach, that ensures technical and non-technical clients alike fully understand our intentions, through live, on screen visualisation and prototyping available via our online demonstration facilities.

    We provide an incremental design then presentation approach which allows us to mould and reshape the design requirements and working solution, before actual development begins.

    We believe that this is a highly efficient and cost-effective process, allowing client involvement at every stage, guaranteeing progressive results and more importantly an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all concerned.

    Enterprise Website Solutions Process

    Enterprise Solutions Process

    Stage 1: Conception

  • Initial project analysis
  • Confirm project objectives and define the scope
  • Return ideas and costing to client

    • Stage 2: Elaboration

  • Plan project, set timescale and deadlines
  • Research and analyse competition, determine target audience and define a competitive advantage
  • Focus message, proposition and call to action
  • Specify features and functions

    • Stage 3: Inception

  • Confirm baseline architecture
  • Present creative design solutions

    • Stage 4: Construction

  • Build prototype for client evaluation and sign off
  • Develop project, testing for usability, functionality and acceptance

    • Stage 5: Deployment

  • Launch website
  • Communicate to your market
  • Optimise for searchability

    • Stage 6: Development

  • Undertake modifications and updates
  • Carry out user training
  • Maintain and Support

    • Your call will put us at Stage 1. Your commitment to us is only required from Stage 2.

    Business Website Solutions

    Business Solutions

    Packaged website solutions

  • Comprehensive entry level to SME website solutions
  • Build your own solution from pre defined and pre developed components
  • Easily configure your requirement from our fixed tariff menu structure

    • We have listened to our clients and enquirers and have identified the typical core components that form the basis of full web site solution.

    Our entry level – SME solution has been developed from tried and tested Content Management System (CMS), eCommerce solution, typical interface design solutions, put together with a base web site structure to complete a modular approach to an effective end result.

    A typical website structure:

    Creative design solutions
    +
    8pp base website structure
    +
    Basic Content Management System (CMS)
    +
    eCommerce solution (online store)
    +
    Entry level Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
    =
    Integrated website solution at £ FIXED COST
    This approach is not necessarily for everyone, but does provide a sensible, cost effective approach to producing the right result. For bespoke solutions, please refer to our Enterprise Solutions.

    Brilliant do not use ‘off-the-shelf' software solutions – all our programming is tried, tested and fully manageable by us and our design solutions are our own and based wholly on your requirements and aspirations. What's more all our core components, illustrated on this page, are currently in-use by our clients (featured on this web site – see Business Case Studies).

    Call us now on 0845 260 61 61
    or use our Online enquiry form to learn more.

    Business Website Solutions Process

    Business Solutions Process

    Stage 1: Acceptance

  • Confirm web site components required
  • Agree timescale and deadlines
  • Complete order process

    • Stage 2: Conception

  • Present creative design solution(s)
  • Receive client design approval
  • Receive text, images, video content from client (unless requested of Brilliant)

    • Stage 3: Construction

  • Build prototype for client evaluation and sign off
  • Complete project, testing for usability, functionality and acceptance

    • Stage 4: Deployment

  • Launch web site
  • Optimise for searchability

    • Stage 5: Development

  • Undertake modifications and updates
  • Carry out user training
  • Maintain and Support

    • Your call will put us at Stage 1. Your commitment to us is only required from Stage 2.

    Contact Us

    Brilliant Limited
    Drake House
    2 Duckling Lane
    Sawbridgeworth
    Hertfordshire CM21 9QA
    United Kingdom


    0845 260 61 61

    Company Information

    Brilliant Limited
    Registered in England

    Company registration number: 05292936

    Registered address:
    Drake House, 2 Duckling Lane, Sawbridgeworth,
    Herts CM21 9QA

    VAT No. GB853 2136 42

    Main website: www.brilliantinternet.co.uk  |  Telephone: 0845 260 61 61