Hi, we are a small web development agency called Applecado based in Hampshire, UK. We specialise in standards compliant, accessible, functional and attractive websites. We love the internet, and want to help improve it where ever possible through use of quality code, design and best-practices. We have over 10 years experience and have excellent knowledge of Content Management Systems, e-Commerce Systems, Web Applications, HTML Emails, Mobile Applications and all other aspects of the web. We also work with some great freelance designers and successful web agencies in the UK.
In addition to creating beautiful and functional websites, we are just as happy working on your projects. We pride ourselves on our excellent coding skills, and offer a 'silent' service to agencies and designers, taking on their development work or overspill, completing it on time and on budget.

Featured Clients

We work for some great clients, but we can't show them all off. Here's a couple have given us permission.
Virgin Unite

The non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, revolutionising the way businesses and the social sector work together.

"It was a great pleasure working with Applecado to build the online platform for Virgin Mobile USA's FREE.I.P. program. At every step of the project they responded quickly to our needs while continuing to deliver a high quality product. Applecado quickly became a company we knew we could rely on".

Marc Humphries - Virgin Unite

Fhoke

A creative digital agency focused on design, branding and development for the web.

"We've been fortunate enough to find Applecado to outsource the over-flow of development work during those busy months. It's very cost effective for us and is a far better solution than many freelancers' "fire and forget" approach to projects. Alex is forming a great development house at Applecado who we can rely on to get the job done and to get it right. We look forward to a long term working relationship".

Ben Bush - Co-Founder of FHOKE

Aaron Rudd Creative

Award winning designs for print and web.

"As a freelance designer, I was relieved to have found a reliable developer in Applecado, who I can send designs to for them to build and have a quick and hassle free experience. Attention to detail is key for me to get the most from my designs and I'm pleased to be working with Applecado".

Aaron Rudd - Founder of Aaron Rudd Creative


Who We Are

Alex
Nicola
We are hiring

Our Services

Design

  • Websites
  • Logos
  • Business Cards
  • Flyers
  • Holding Pages

Build

  • PHP5
  • MySQL / PostgreSQL
  • Accessible CSS
  • Compliant XHTML
  • Javascript
  • Mobile Apps
    (iOS, Android, etc)

Development

  • Content Management
  • e-Commerce
  • RSS Feeds
  • Secure Logins
  • Web Applications
  • .. Anything!

Our websites are built with web standards in mind; rigorously tested and future proofed.

We make websites as intuitive and functional as possible, with ordinary people in mind.


Selected Works

Croxsons

William Croxson & Son are a leading glass packaging and closure solutions supplier, supplying standard glass packaging for every food and beverage sector, and closures to match, for clients from the smallest start-ups, to the largest multi-national.

Their website consists of a content management system and product database solution, allowing them to position themselves as a premium brand, and show potential clients their fantastic products.

Deliverables

  • Website Design
  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • Product Database

Wine Therapy

Wine Therapy are a newly established and independent boutique wine store situated in the heart of Cowes.

Their website consists of a content management system and ecommerce solution, allowing Wine Therapy to position themselves as a premium brand of Wine Retailer both on the highstreet and online.

Aaron Rudd planned and designed the site.

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • ECommerce System

Premium Island Vacations

Premium Island Vacations are somewhere between being a tour operator, a travel agency, vacation planner and a concierge and lifestyle management company offering best luxury rental villas and deluxe hotels on St Barts.

The content management system controls two websites, their US and UK offering, allowing easy updates to control their whole company’s web presense.

Applecado built the site using the Symfony framework and used the Google Maps API for the maps.

Deliverables

  • Website Design
  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • SOAP data feeds

NerdyDayTrips

Dr Ben Goldacre approached us to create a new website for his NerdyDayTrips project. The site allows users to post and share their favourite ‘nerdy’ spots throughout the world, and other users can comment and view them.

Applecado built the site using the Symfony framework and used the Google Maps API for the maps.

Aaron Rudd Creative designed the site for us.

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Custom Mapping
  • Content Management
  • Social Signins

Toto Merch

Toto Merch is an online retailer of band merchandise - but with a difference. Bands can sign up and sell their own merch through their own customised shop. The can also create products such as t-shirts and hoodies through an easy to use online interface, to be printed and posted by Toto.

Toto approached Applecado to build the new version of their website after using a Proof of Concept site for a year beforehand. The design work was created by Capra.

We built TotoMerch using the Symfony framework which allowed a quick and robust development.

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • Custom CRM
  • User Registrations
  • Product Creation
  • ECommerce

Sunglasses for Sport

Sunglasses for Sport is an online retailer of designer and branded sunglasses. SFS Came to us asking for a new online store to replace their existing, dated, ecommerce website.

We used our ACMS as a base, and enhanced our E-Commerce module to fit their needs.

Deliverables

  • Website Design
  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • E-Commerce System
  • Order and Invoice Management

JP Designers

Jonty from JP Designers contacted us to develop the CMS and frontend code for their new website.

We used our ACMS as a base, adding case study and portfolio management to enable JPD to effectively manage their entire site.

The site was designed by JPD

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System

Springhouse Law

Springhouse is an independent firm of highly qualified solicitors and advocates. We built their striking website on our CMS platform, and added a feature-rich Blog module to enhance the experience.

The website was designed by Fhoke and we were commissioned to carry out the development side of the website.

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System

Frog Prince

Frog Prince is a fantastic wedding planning outfit based in Ireland. The website was built to display galleries of their work, as well as contact details, case studies and stories about weddings they have been involved in.

The website was designed by Fhoke and we were commissioned to carry out the development side of the website.

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System

The Tree house

The Tree House is a house build and restoration by artist Lisa Traxler. We built the website as a Content Managed Solution, enabling Lisa and her husband to update it with a diary and pictures of the build. The house was featured in an episode of Grand Designs on Channel 4

The website was designed by Aaron Rudd Creative and is built on our ACMS platform.

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System

Farmer Jacks

Farmer Jacks Farm Shop originally opened in 2005, a partnership of two established Island farmers with the shared aim of providing quality and variety of local produce available from the many farmers and food producers of the Isle of Wight. The site is going to be launched in 2 releases, the first being a content managed site, and the second a full eCommerce solution.

The website was designed by Aaron Rudd Creative and is built on our ACMS platform with our own E-Commerce module.

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • Twitter Integration

Virgin Mobile FREE.I.P

Virgin Unite hired Applecado to build the online volunteering platform for Virgin Mobile USA’s FREE.I.P program.

The system is totally bespoke, featuring volunteer signups, charity management and login, volunteer project and reward systems, and a complete CMS to manage the content.

The site was designed by 1TrickPony

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • System Design and Planning
  • Content Management System
  • Bespoke Volunteering Platform
  • Webserver Management

Reader’s Interiors

Readers Interiors are an independent family business, and have been retailing on the island since 1994. Over the last 16 years they have developed their shop from a factory outlet, selling seconds and overstocks, into an eclectic home shop offering unique and charming products from an international supply base.

The website was designed by Aaron Rudd Creative and is built on our ACMS platform with our own E-Commerce module.

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • E-Commerce Module
  • Order and Invoice Management

Ademosite.co.uk

Ademosite is the online demo of our own, in-house produced, CMS - the Applecado Content Management System.

The site can be edited by anyone, and reverts it’s content back to the default text every hour. To log in, visit the site and look in the footer for the login details.

The CMS is our base software, upon which most of our sites are built, saving money for our clients by re-using a solid and reliable framework.

Deliverables

  • Web Design
  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • Loads of Code
  • Auto Backup and Restore

Wines of Uruguay

Wines of Uruguay is a small business supplying wonderful Uruguayan wines to the UK

We created a bespoke e-Commerce system to cater for single bottles or cases to be puchased which was built around a content managed website.

The Wines of Uruguay website was designed by Aaron Rudd Creative

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • e-Commerce

Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce

The Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce website was in need of an overhaul and they approached Aaron Rudd to do the work. Aaron asked me to help out and we built a fully content managed website, with user memberships and logins, forums, and a bespoke events and news system.

The Isle of Wight Chamber website was designed by Aaron Rudd Creative

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • Bespoke Member Forums
  • Data Import and Exports

Island Food and Gifts

Island food and gifts supply mouth-watering delights and hand picked gifts from the Isle of Wight’s award winning food producers.

Consisting of a simple website with an online shop their customers can choose and order the items they want to give their loved ones easily.

The Island Food and Gifts website was designed by Aaron Rudd Creative

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • e-Commerce
  • Bespoke Order Management

SimplyMeiTai

SimplyMeiTai was created by Maria Gingell as an outlet for her handmade “Mei Tai” baby carriers.

The website is fully content managed allowing Maria to update the website herself. The site also functions as a full ecommerce solution, allowing customers to order their carriers at any time of the day. Maria can add pages as she pleases, update her blog whenever she needs, and also manage the products and prices in her shop.

Deliverables

  • Web Design
  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • E-Commerce System
  • Hosting
  • Email

The Tomato Stall

The Tomato Stall are a company based in the Isle of Wight who bring the freshest, ripest and tastiest organic tomatoes from the Isle of Wight to Farmers’ Markets all across the South of England.

The Tomato Stall’s previous website had no functionality at all, and they wanted something more. We built them a fantastic Content Management System and e-Commerce system, and they immediately started taking online orders!

The Tomato website was designed by Aaron Rudd Creative

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • e-Commerce System
  • Website Hosting
  • Email Hosting

Medina Innovation Trust

The Medina Innovation Trust provides a local platform to develop and enhance opportunities for young people focused on raising the standards of young peoples health, education and achievement.

The Medina website was designed by Aaron Rudd Creative

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • Website Hosting
  • Email Hosting

Isle of Wight Lottery

The IoW Lottery website is fairly small with basic content managed areas. The site also has a winners database which contains all the previous and current winners and can be managed by the IoW Lottery themselves.

The Lottery website was designed by Aaron Rudd Creative

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • Winners Database
  • Web Hosting
  • Email Hosting

Christ the King College

CTKC needed a fully content managed website to enable them to keep staff, pupils and potential pupils fully informed and up-to-date with all the news and information about the college.

After being given the initial design, we then set about building the site and creating a content management system.

The CTKC website was designed by Aaron Rudd Creative

Deliverables

  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • Video Encoding

Force Racing

Force Racing specialise in made-to-order titanium reproductions and scratch built automotive components, ensuring their parts are functional, ultra-lightweight with incredible strength.

The website is fully content managed allowing the users to edit and alter any page, image or text on the website. The CMS also allows new pages to be added easily and quickly.

Force Racing also needed website and email hosting and we were happy to help.

Deliverables

  • Web Design
  • Website Build
  • Content Management System
  • Hosting
  • Email

Turbo Minis

Turbominis was created to cater for classic mini owners who wanted to learn about and build a turbocharged mini. The site is now the primary and largest source of Turbo A-Series information on the internet.

The site was built with it’s users in mind, allowing them to upload images of their cars, have their own blogs, and chat to other users in the forum.  The site now gets over 450,000 hits per month.

Deliverables

  • Website Design
  • Website Build
  • Content Mangement System
  • Bespoke Forum Software
  • Hosting and Email

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