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- Project with Nottinghamshire County Council nearly complete
- New look and feel for Fire Sprinkler Solutions
- Cyonix wins Nottinghamshire County Council contract
- Sharon works with award winning marketing agency Fuse Digital
- Videotel International goes live
- Richard Costin Wildlife Photography goes live
- Current Projects
- Now taking on freelance projects
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Project with Nottinghamshire County Council nearly complete
April 2010
The development for the ‘Positive Actives Database’ website is in its last stages. The website is for Young People of Nottinghamshire who Sharon worked closely with throughout the design process. We will post full details about the project once the website goes live.
Cyonix wins Nottinghamshire County Council contract
November 2009
Sharon recently pitched for an exciting contract working with Nottinghamshire County Council. The client was impressed with the presentation and offered Cyonix the contract the next morning! We will go into more detail once the project has been fully scoped.
Sharon works with award winning marketing agency Fuse Digital
October 2009
Sharon was recently contracted by award-winning digital marketing agency Fuse Digital to work alongside their busy development team. Sharon was responsible for the build of a new section of a large existing website, working in parallel with back end developers. Details of this project will follow once launched. Sharon also worked on a many other significant accounts - including Lucozade, BrowseBullring and PG tips to name a few.
Videotel International goes live
July 2009
We are pleased to announce that the new Videotel International website is now live!
Videotel International are market leaders in providing training products for the Marine Industry. The new website is a product catalogue with advanced search filters and XML import for over 5000 products.
The project entailed a full re-design of the old website. Usability took the lead in the re-design to ensure the new website was built around the user needs, making it much more user friendly. We also considered primary business objectives and worked closely with Videotel personnel and potential users via an online survey.
Read more about the new Videotel website.
Richard Costin Wildlife Photography goes live
July 2009
We are pleased to announce that Richard Costin Wildlife Photography is now live!
The site is largely an online showcase and shop for Richards accredited Wildlife Photography.
Driven by Magneto Technologies LiveSite, the site is fully content managed with bespoke image upload and photo gallery.
Read more about Richard Costin Wildlife Photography website.
Current Projects
June 2009
Apologies for the lack of news of late, we've been very busy with some great projects! Below are two of our favourites...
Cyonix & Mangeto Technologies recently won the bid to re-design the Videotel International Website, market leaders in providing training products for the marine industry. The website will be a new catalogue driven website with advanced search and filters and XML import for over 5000 products. Cyonix roles on the project include:
- Project Management
- Lead Design & Usability (Analysis, Information Architecture, User Research).
- Front-end Accessibility Development
We have also had the pleasure of working with the accredited Wildlife Photographer Richard Costin to design a new gallery/shop website for his Wildlife Photography business. Magneto Technologies provided the technical/back-end services and Cyonix roles include:
- Project Management
- Design & Front-end Accessibility Development
We will reveal more once the sites are launched!
Our new website in final phase
June 2008
For some time now, we have been talking about creating a new website for Cyonix. But like every small business, time is of the essence, and non-critical internal marketing is not often considered a priority.
We have been working on our new site for the past 2 months now, and we are pleased to announce that it’s in its last phase of development. Our new site has a brand new look and feel and we can’t wait to unveil it to the world!
Due to us focusing on the new site launch, we would like to take this opportunity to inform our users that we will no longer be updating this site. We will indeed keep the latest news and portfolio content fresh.
Now taking on freelance projects
May 2008
Hey everyone. As you all know, over the past year we've been busy working in partnership with Fused Technologies (part of the Fused Group) providing them with lead design and web accessibility services. Together with our client web projects, it would be fair to say that it kept us more than busy. It's been a great few months and we thoroughly enjoyed working with the highly skilled Fused Tech team.
However, all good things must come to an end, and although we continue to work with Fused on specific projects, we are happy to announce we are now taking on Freelance projects again! As always, our web services remain the same and we continue to grow our partnership network to expand our products and services. If you would like more information about our freelance or web services please contact us for details. Oh and our new site is imminent - so watch this space!
Busy, busy, busy!
Aug 2007
We would like to apologise to all of our site users for the delay in the Cyonix website re-design!
For the past 3 months we have been consulting for Poptech (as well as Cyonix day-to-day operations) and have been responsible for most of Poptech’s designs, accessibility and site builds. We also admit that we haven't had much time to add recent work to the Cyonix portfolio (apologies to all clients who we told how imperative it is to keep content fresh!). However, we will be putting time aside in the near future to rectify all of the above and show you our shiny new work!
This aside, we are always looking to work with new people, so please feel free to contact us if you would like to disucss our web services.
Cyonix website due for a makeover!
May 2007
We are very excited to announce that Cyonix is about to embark on a brand new web project - the re-design of Cyonix website!
Read the full story: Cyonix website due for a makeover
Cyonix wins contract with Civic Action for WOMEN into public life web presence
March 2007
Cyonix are proud to announce they have joined forces with London based CivicAction and Poptech to develop a web presence for 'WOMEN into public life'. The concept is a Tower Hamlets campaign to encourage more women in the community to increase the number of woman involved in public life roles.
Read the full story: Cyonix wins contract with Civic Action
Content Managed Solution for Venetian Plastering Expert
March 2007
Cyonix and Kineta Systems have won yet another contract together! The project is to design a content managed web presence for Plaster by Design - local Ventian plaster specialists. The site will be constructed using the Drupal CMS with built in SEO features. More news to follow...
PRESS RELEASE: Cyonix-partnered service launching in Nottingham
February 2007
Accessible Web Company Cyonix is pleased to announce it is to join forces with Poptech in delivering their proven CMS software, Siteframework.
Read the full story: Cyonix - partnered service launching in Nottingham
Government to close 551 websites
January 2007
Hundreds of government websites are to be shut down "to make access to information easier" for people.
Of 951 sites, only 26 will definitely stay, 551 will definitely close and hundreds more are expected to follow…
Read the full article: Government to close 551 websites
Take Stock of your Marketing Strategy for 2007
January 2007
A very Happy & Prosperous New Year to all! 2007 brings new opportunities to every business owner. January is a slow month for many industries, with smaller businesses usually baring the brunt. However it's not all doom and gloom.
Quiet dips can be used to take stock of your marketing strategy, promotions and campaigns. Ask yourself, do my current marketing operations promote my business effectively? You may have a great service/product, ethos and company identity, but no means of efficiently conveying this to your customers. Good marketing is crucial to a brands success, and every business owner should periodically review their marketing activities.
Read the full article: Take Stock of your Marketing Strategy for 2007
Leading Regional Law Firm make final 10 in Weblog Awards
December 2006
The Intellectual Property and Technology team at Nottingham law firm Freeth Cartwright LLP are amongst the top 10 finalists in The Weblog Awards. The Weblog Awards are the world's largest blog competition, with over 1 million votes cast in the last three years for nearly 1,000 blogs. IMPACT is an Intellectual property and IT law blog created maintained by Alex Newson and his colleagues.
To help Alex and his team win this prestigious award, please visit http://impact.freethcartwright.com/2006/12/2006_weblog_awa.html and cast your vote! Good luck to all at Freeth Cartwright!
Visit: http://impact.freethcartwright.com
Sharon (Lee) Saxton returns from Babson College
November 2006
Sharon (Lee) Saxton discusses the New Entrepreneur Transatlantic Scholarship at Babson College.
On arriving at Babson, we were given time to acclimatise and familiarise ourselves with the new surroundings of the Babson Executive Centre. The Babson grounds are a delightful mixture of leafy woods, tranquil ponds with a variety of native wildlife. It was a sunny St Columbus day, and the Babson grounds posed a beautiful contrast of falling autumn leaves and dazzling sunshine. There was a definitive aura of business excellence and high achievement within the centre, with evidence in the form of mounted portraits that told a thousand stories. 5 am at the gym was a picture of executives using exercise equipment powering up for the day and reading reports.
"Fasten your seatbelts its going to be a bumpy ride" were the exact words of the head of the European institute of Babson College on induction day. Our mentor Mike Gordon, a serial Entrepreneur himself explained that we were about to embark on a two week MBA style programme that usually spans over two semesters!
Read the whole story: Sharon (Lee) Saxton returns from Babson College
Cyonix Jets off to the States
August 2006
Sharon Lee had been selected for the New Entrepreneur Transatlantic Scholarships (NETS-UK) - an MBA-style programme at one of the top business schools, the Babson Business College in Massachusetts.
Sharon will join 14 scholars from Northern England in a two-week executive programme on the attributes of an entrepreneur, how to find a competitive advantage, wealth creation and social entrepreneurship.
Visit: http://nbv.co.uk
Greenweeks Rebrands and Relaunches
March 2006
After the success of last years Greater Nottingham Greenweeks programme, greenweeks.org was revamped to reflect the natural progression of the initiative.
Again, Cyonix collaborated with Kineta Sytems to breathe new life and integrated features into the site.
Visit: http://www.greenweeks.org
PAS 78 Launched
March 2006
On 8 March 2006, PAS was the latest set of standards to be added to the list. PAS 78 has been issued by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC), working in collaboration with the British Standards Institute. PAS 78 is the Guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites.
Website owners have a legal duty to make their sites accessible to disabled people. Alex Newson, a UK intellectual property & IT lawyer, writes an article for Cyonix and GAWDS on the law and on the Disability Rights Commission's new PAS 78 standard.
Visit: http://www.drc.org.uk
Cyonix shortlisted for Visionary Design Awards
February 2006
Cyonix website has been shortlisted for the fourth annual Visionary Design Awards, highlighting organisations that have excelled in ensuring their web-based services are accessible to blind and partially sighted people across the UK.
The Visionary Design Awards are part of an ongoing campaign by the National Library for the Blind (NLB) to encourage website publishers and designers to consider the needs of visually impaired people when they are designing their sites. NLB estimates that less than a third of websites are currently accessible to visually impaired people who use technologies such as magnification, text to speech, and refreshable Braille in order to access web-based services.

