G-Cloud - S:EIGHTY EIGHTY DIGITAL AGENCY www.s8080.com INFO@s8080.com
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Some of our clients...3
Drupal managed cloud hosting ...4
Drupal consultancy and development ...6
Drupal user experience Design ... 7
The way we do things ...8
Our organisational structure - flat ...9
Sub-contracting - we don’t ...9
Doing things right - our standards ...10
Quality - nonconformities...10
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Number 10•
Department of Energy and Climate Change•
HM Cabinet Office•
Health and Safety Executive•
Department of Work and Pensions•
Department of Health•
NHS•
UK Trade and Investment•
National Assembly for Wales•
Welsh Government•
Orange•
Defra•
Careers Wales•
Ministry of Justice•
BBC•
Audit Commission•
CITB - Construction Skills•
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award•
Adobe•
University of West London•
Alzheimer’s Research UK•
Visit Wales•
Directgov•
Wales Audit Office•
Grammy Awards (US)•
Ryder Cup•
Nominet•
20th Century Fox•
South Wales Police•
West Midlands Police•
Kiwi Shoe Polish•
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists•
Transport for London•
Lee Valley Regional Park•
Tetley Tea•
Royal College of Radiologists•
Expedia•
Tesco•
Royal College of Anaesthetists•
O2•
Sunday TimesRackspace Cloud hosting with very high availability and the flexibility to scale bandwidth, disk space and processing power as demand for your website changes. S8080’s Rackspace Cloud hosting packages are designed, optimised and securely deployed specifically for the Drupal open source content management system.
Case studies
CLICK HERE to see our latest public sector case studies and examples of our work: http://www.s8080.com/our-work/
Features
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UK based Primary / Live server•
100% network uptime guarantee•
1 hour hardware replacement•
4GB, 8GB and 15GB packages available•
Fully managed 24/7 Rackspace support•
24/7/365 proactive website monitoring and support available•
Anti DDOS measuresBenefits
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S8080 help with secure hosting solution architecture, commissioning and roll-out•
Our deployment team have Ministerial Department experience•
High level of resilience and up time•
Flexibility to scale the hosting requirements very quickly•
Cloud Files Backup are stored in three different locations•
Differential backups are made nightly and fully backups are weekly•
Geographic resilience•
UK based agency, team and hosting provision. No freelancers.G-Cloud - S:EIGHTY EIGHTY DIGITAL AGENCY www.s8080.com INFO@s8080.com
You get what you pay for!
You’ll see many free and cheap hosting packages available – our advice is to know what service you are getting (and what level of hosting management and technical support you will get from the hosting company)… as with everything else in life – you get what you pay for…
Rackspace Cloud hosting for very high
availability (typically over 99.99%) and to allow for rapid expansion of traffic
Cloud hosting will give you very high availability, and the flexibility to scale up and down bandwidth, disk space and processing power as the demand for your website increases. The advantage of cloud services is a higher level of resilience and up time, along with the flexibility to scale the hosting requirements very quickly.
Cloud server replacement guarantees
Cloud Servers exist on single physical nodes, so if your website resides on a single Cloud Server, a hardware fail may cause downtime. The hypervisors essentially distribute the resources from Ram to CPU to disk space, according to the size of the server you opt for. The network and power supplies are redundant, which explains our 100% network uptime guarantee. The 1 hour hardware replacement guarantee applies to failed hardware supporting your instance. The 3 hour host degradation guarantee applies to your instance when being migrated to an entirely new physical host machine.
Fully managed level of support
We strongly recommend managed hosting (only ever consider self-managed server if you have a UNIX SysAdmin member in your IT team to undertake trouble shooting, security patching, configuration, upgrades of the operating system, the server administration software and the standard software (Apache, MySQL).
Again most hosting companies don’t make it very clear what level of management and support you get on Cloud hosting unless you ask
Do I need 4GB, 8GB or more?
8GB Rackspace servers are required for more complex site ites which have a higher load and or numerous modules. A quick rule of thumb is if your site is simple CMS with low load only then 4GB tends to be adequate*. If it is a customised CMS with additional modules, they demand more memory and so 8GB is recommended*.
Drupal consultancy and development
S8080 is a UK agency with 15 years public sector experience, up to
Ministerial Department level, specialising in secure, compliant Drupal website UX, design, build and migration. We provide stakeholder requirements gathering, user experience and service design, engaging creative and technical development, solving complex Drupal integration, configuration and workflow problems.
Features
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15 years public sector experience, including No.10 Downing Street•
10 years on the COI Digital roster•
UK based Drupal development agency, no freelancers or contractors•
Stakeholder engagement workshop experience up to Minister level•
Drupal usability (UX) and accessibility specialists•
Information Architecture, persona and wireframe development•
Optimised Drupal performance and custom code development•
Drupal workflow – from simple to very complex user matrices•
Fully accessible and fully compliant•
Multi-lingual capabilities – extensive English / Welsh bilingual experienceBenefits
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FFlexible - Agile and PRINCE2 project management approaches•
Transferable deliverables, you’re not tied to any web agency•
User centred website and digital service design approach•
Safe and secure – ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified•
Free – no software licence costs with Drupal•
Rackspace Cloud fully managed Drupal hosting•
Large (and fast moving) open source development communities•
Modular systems - thousands of 3rd party Drupal extensions•
Robust, proven functionality – tried and tested by governments worldwideG-Cloud - S:EIGHTY EIGHTY DIGITAL AGENCY www.s8080.com INFO@s8080.com
Benefits
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15 years public sector experience, including No.10 Downing Street•
10 years on the COI Digital roster•
UK based Drupal UX, design and technical development agency•
Tightly align your website objectives and your audience needs•
Ensures site is optimised for users and performs as expected•
Audience will not only consume, but engage with your content•
Flexible - Agile and PRINCE2 project management approaches•
Vast Microsoft .NET public sector knowledge and experience•
Rackspace Cloud fully managed Drupal hosting•
Safe and secure – ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certifiedDrupal User experience Design
Aligning your Drupal development with your objectives and audiences. Expert review and website evaluation covering usability, online goals, user experience and accessibility. S8080 Employ user experience / UX tools including competitor and peer analysis, content analysis, IA, persona development and user journeys ensuring audiences use and engage with your content.
Features
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Expert review before and/or after your Drupal development•
Stakeholder engagement workshop experience up to Minister level•
Alignments sessions, requirements gathering workshops, depth interviews•
Competitor and peer analysis•
Content inventory (every page) or content audit (sampling)•
Proto persona workshops and persona development•
User journey design•
Card sorting, user testing and eye tracking•
Website information architecture•
Drupal optimised wireframes, web prototyping, design and Drupal developmentThe way we do things
Project Management
S8080’s team of five project managers adopt and scale relevant elements of the PRINCE2 and Agile methodologies depending on the scope of your project and your specific requests.
This means your project runs according to an agreed plan, with an agreed budget and agreed deliverables, and that all risks are monitored and communicated to you. We use BaseCamp software for secure sharing and collaborative working.
We pay great attention to the initial scoping of the project to ensure that all deliverables are clearly defined. Careful planning and meticulous documentation ensures that everyone understands their responsibilities and the expected outcome of the project. The devil is in the details.
QA and Testing
In addition to usability and accessibility testing, the entire website undergoes stringent QA and testing at each stage of the project. S8080 operate to ISO9001: 2008 quality standards.
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Developer testing individual black box testing against test scripts•
Developer peer / group testing against tests scripts and checklists•
QA team testing of black box against test scripts•
QA team testing of entire application against test scripts•
Iteration of fixing and QA re-testing against test scripts and checklists in addition to the use of automated testing tools•
Release to you for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)Change requests and bugs
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A bug means that someone said “this is how we’re going to do it / this is how it is meant to work” and then someone did it differently / or it works differently.•
A change request is more like “but we need to consider this other thing as well”.If a feature is not working as intended and agreed upon within S8080’s wireframes and documentation and the CMS documentation, it’s a bug. If the feature is a change to the requirements, and/or undocumented in S8080’s wireframes and documentation, then it is a change request.
However, the way we address change requests and bugs obviously depend on the limitations of the open source or COTS CMS and plug ins/modules we are using for your project, it may not always be possible to change core functionality or fix bugs until the CMS developer updates their software. We will always suggest alternatives though.
G-Cloud - S:EIGHTY EIGHTY DIGITAL AGENCY www.s8080.com INFO@s8080.com
Our organisational structure
- flat
We have broken the traditional agency model.
We don’t insert the extra layer of inaccessibility that business development people or account managers tend to introduce. You’ll have access to anyone in our company, whenever you need it.
During the alignment and UX phase of your project, you’ll be working directly with S8080’s directors.
Then, once it’s time to start the creative elements of your project, you can speak directly to the designer who is working on it (most of the time, they make a lot of sense).
You can chat about database structures with our technical team lead or discuss the intricacies of accessibility with our implementation team. Of course, you can still go through our project management team if that is easier for you.
Sub-contracting
- we don’t
S8080 delivers all UX, creative and technical solutions using our UK based in-house teams. None of the work is entrusted to external contractors and all testing and quality control is carried out in-house.
The only areas where we use trusted partners are:
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Hosting of websites•
Assessment of Internet security•
Translations•
Copywriting•
Laboratory based user testing•
Pan disability user testingNo freelancers or contractors
All of the design, development, training and support for your project will be delivered using permanent employees who are based in our Swansea offices. We do not use and have never used freelance staff or contractors.
You will find this is very unusual for an agency, but we demand complete control over our production schedule and allocation of human resources and this difficult to guaranteed if freelancer staff and contractors are used. This policy also ensures information security and maintains consistency in the quality of our development.
Doing things right
- our standards
Over the years, we have invested a lot of time in making our business the best if can possibly be. We hope that the standards we have achieved help give you confidence when dealing with us.
Information Security Standards
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ISO/IEC 27001:2013 information security•
S8080’s principles have Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) clearanceQuality, Environmental and Health and Safety Standards
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Quality Management System - BS EN ISO 9001:2008•
Environmental Management System – ISO 14001:2004•
Occupational Health and Safety Management System – OHSAS 18001:2007Investors in People
S8080 achieved the Investor in People standard on the 11th January 2007.
Quality
- nonconformities
We take quality very seriously. We log all nonconformities and deal with them using a very specific ISO 9001:2008 procedure.
If you have a concern, it should be addressed to your dedicated S8080 project manager – a friendly phone call is normally appropriate. But if you feel the issue is serious enough to complain formally, that is best done by email to your project manager or an S8080 Director.
We will investigate your concern using a Corrective Action Report as soon as possible (always the same day) and send you the completed report with:
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Details of nonconformity•
Corrective action details•
Preventative action details•
Directors commentsOnce you have had a chance to read the report, we will then ask you if:
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You feel the nonconformity has been recorded accurately•
You feel that the corrective action(s) have resolved the issues•
You feel that any other preventative actions or new procedures can be put in place to stop this happening againThis will be followed up with a telephone call from Chris, Matt or your project manager to ensure you are happy with the outcome. We can then close the case or escalate further if you are not satisfied.
G-Cloud - S:EIGHTY EIGHTY DIGITAL AGENCY www.s8080.com INFO@s8080.com
What can S8080 offer you?
Specialist skills:
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Information Architecture (IA)•
Usability (UX) and accessibility consultants•
Website, intranet and extranet design and build•
Creative - including digital campaign strategy and delivery•
Technical Web Development (Microsoft .NET and PHP)•
Network infrastructure security hardening (experienced at Ministerial Department level)•
Commissioning and hardening of hosting•
CMS implementation - content management systems•
Open source platform development – Drupal, Umbraco and WordPress•
SharePoint and EPIServer development and integration•
eMail newsletter design, build and broadcast•
Creative interactive development (including video, illustration, infographics and content development)Support:
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Training across our specialisms•
9-5 email and telephone support - you always have guaranteed access to a project manager and /or a developer•
24/7/365 technical support for our development and hosting•
Tailored support packages for special high-load events or heightened security periodsOur UX design experience covers:
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Usability consultancy•
Expert usability, accessibility and compliancy reviews•
Stakeholder engagement workshops•
Requirements gathering workshops•
User experience design•
Web competitor analysis•
Web peer analysis•
Content audit, content inventory and content plan•
Persona development•
Scenarios of use•
User journey development•
Information architecture (IA)•
Wire frames and prototyping•
Functional specification•
Technical specification•
Formal creative brief•
Usability testing•
Accessibility - Pan disability user testing•
User testing and eye trackingS8080 digital AGENCY
S8080 is a UK based independent digital design and build agency established in 2000 by Chris and Matt.
Our core areas of expertise are user experience, (very) creative website and interactive design, (very) technical web development and digital communications. We help publicly funded organisations by designing, developing and implementing cost effective websites, online strategies and messages. We have done this for some very impressive clients.
