Oyster Marketing & Design

New website live for Saints Foundation charity

Anna — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:57:42 +0000

Oyster is delighted to announce the launch of the new website for the Saints Foundation, a charity aligned to Southampton Football Club. The new Foundation website is fully content managed, built in WordPress. The site has been designed to highlight the charity’s impact and the work that they do, not only around football and sports, but also around homelessness, disabilities and other areas.

Oyster used design to illustrate figures and data making the charity’s impact easier to see at a glance. Large images and pull out quotes make the beneficiaries of the charities come to life and the ‘journeys’ featured throughout the site give an insight into how the charity changes lives.

The site offers a range of functionality including a new built-in auction where fans can purchase memorabilia from the football club with all funds supporting the charity’s work.

New Fellowship of the Motor Industry website launched at House of Commons

Anna — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:55:11 +0000

Oyster’s latest project to go live was launched at the House of Commons this week. The Fellowship of the Motor Trade (FMI) hired Oyster to redesign and redevelop their website to allow them to offer a better communications channel with fellows and reduce the organisations print requirement and reduce their impact on the environment.

The Fellowship’s new website allows fellows to log into the site and update their membership details, as well as search for other members, read about forthcoming events and comment on recent events which they have attended. The site is built in using the open-source CMS, Durpal. Drupal’s framework enables the FMI to manage their site independently whenever and wherever they need to.

A focus for the new site was to encourage new fellows to join and participate in the social events. Oyster designed a site that gives equal balance to new and existing members, encouraging visitors to become involved.

In a review of the launch event, the FMI stated: “The newly developed Fellowship website was launched and the news was greeted with great enthusiasm from those attending, all were urged to visit it as soon as possible to keep up to date with the FMI activities.”

Southern Dental Labs of Portsmouth hire Oyster for web and design

Anna — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:49:55 +0000

Oyster is delighted to be working with Southern Dental Laboratories in Portsmouth. As part of a marketing revamp, the 11-year-old company is creating a new brochure and website to help promote them in the local and regional area. A well established laboratory, Southern Dental has developed exceptional relationships with local dental practices and is now looking to grow their customer base.

Oyster is looking forward to working with Southern Dental Laboratories in the next couple of months.

Go live – new Aquacruise website

Anna — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:29:07 +0000

Oyster is delighted to announce that the new website for Aquacruise, the Dorset based luxury yacht charter company has gone live this week. The new website is feature rich with complex search and sort facilities, detailed and design focused yacht profiles and a slick responsive design.

The website was built entirely in WordPress, pushing the CMS to accommodate complex requirements with the benefits of it’s easy to use back-end editing system. Aquacruise can manage their yacht database easily via the online system and can create custom pages and shortlists for their clients.

As a responsive layout, the website renders the content to suit the device or browser that is being used to view the site, delivering an exceptional experience for all users.

The project has a strong design focus and the Oyster team created a totally unique website design to position Aquacruise within it’s market. We’re very proud of this website and we wish the Aquacruise team a great season!

You can see more about the project on the Aquacruise project page.

Oyster appointed as an Age UK roster agency

Anna — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:42:11 +0000

Oyster is delighted to announce that we have been appointed by Age UK as a roster agency, providing a broad range of creative services across the charity.

As part of the remit, Oyster will be providing both creative projects and working with existing template to produce some of the charity’s vast range of materials. Some of the areas that Oyster will be supporting are campaigns, reports, fundraising and publications.

We are thrilled and highly privileged to be appointed and look forward to working with the Age UK team.

St George’s Day Parade in Emsworth

Anna — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:06:00 +0000

The team took a stroll in the sunshine down to the square to watch the St George’s Day parade. The parade was led by a marching band through the streets of Emsworth. One of our favourites was the lively jazz brass band who warmed up the crowds before the parade began. A great turn-out on a beautiful spring day in Emsworth!

Oyster to design for car finance company, Moneybarn

Anna — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:38:11 +0000

Oyster is pleased to announce that we are currently working with Moneybarn, a Hampshire based car finance provider, to redesign their consumer website. Oyster are using their user experience and design skills to revamp the Moneybarn website and to make better use of their bold and characterful brand.

Moneybarn introduced ‘Barney’ to their brand to help them to differentiate themselves in their market as a car finance provider that works directly with the consumer. The growing success of the company has prompted them to address their consumer website and bring it up to the standard of their printed materials.

Oyster are designing many of the website pages individually, ensuring that each page has maximum impact and is a user-friendly as possible. Oyster will also be designing the site to be responsive.

We look forward to working with Moneybarn in the next few months.

PRF Composite’s new website goes live!

Anna — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:19:30 +0000

Oyster has been working with PRF Composites in Poole to design and build a new website for the company. As part of our role at their outsource marketing agency, Oyster has been working with PRF to refine their brand design style and to create new devices for representing their products and services. The result has been graphic led, and the website has been designed in keeping with this theme.

The PRF website is now totally focused on products and services and presenting PRF as a diverse and highly capable expert organisation who can help with a full range of composite requirements. The new design style helps to set them apart in their market.

You can read more about this project on the PRF Website project page or visit the website at www.prfcomposites.com.

The next stage of the project is the development of an online shop, to go live this summer.

New project – FLA consumer advice website

Anna — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 08:53:03 +0000

Oyster is delighted to announce that we have been appointed to design and build the new ‘Financing Your Car’ site, a consumer advice website commissioned by the Finance Leasing Association (FLA). A replacement for the exising website, Oyster will be designing a new logo for the project as well and design and building the new site in full.

The site will include various calculators and tools and will be designed to be highly user friendly and accessible. The site will also be responsive to work across a full range of browsers and devices.

Watch this space for further developments.

Go live – Tennyson Insurance website

Anna — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:08:59 +0000

Oyster is delighted to announce that the Tennyson Insurance website has gone live. Oyster has been working with Tennyson Insurance for the past few months planning, designing and building their new website.

Oyster has created a custom designed website for Tennyson to deliver in several ways:

An excellent user experience
A clean, clear and simple to use website
Bold design to help Tennyson stand out in their industry
A customer journey that delivers enquiries
Improved SEO results
The control Tennyson need to update their site regularly

Oyster built the site in WordPress to the client custom specification. Our development team adapted the CMS to deliver to Tennyson’s brief. To read more about the project, please see the project page:

Tennyson Insurance project