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Whatever your website requirements, we will take the time to research your target market, key stakeholders and company strategy. All our websites are designed with a company’s corporate identity in mind to ensure consistency of literature no matter what the medium. Our aim is to make the website – whether corporate, investor relations or commercial – the best source of information possible on the company so that visitors are left with a positive impression and return to the site again and again.

Best practice and industry guidelines are continuously adhered to during the plan, design and build of the site, ensuring style, navigation and presentation work together to provide the best online offering possible.

When producing a website we focus on:

• Design
• Core content
• Best practice functionality
• Usability
• Accessibility
• Navigation
• Timeliness
• Technical know-how

Xceed is a new package from DPOS which is targeted at AIM and Small Cap companies and aims to take all the hassle out of complex costings and website builds.

Although the printed annual report is by no means dead, with the Companies Act 2006 enabling more companies to communicate with their shareholders by electronic means, there is an increasing focus on presenting the annual report online, in addition to sending out the hard copy report. Online reports provide endless opportunities to present the annual report content in a more interesting and dynamic way, with a more enhanced web experience overall. This means that more and more stock exchange quoted companies are launching an online report (or micro-site of their annual report) on their corporate/IR websites at the same time as their hard copy reports land on shareholders’ doorsteps. Companies are also digitising their CSR reports in the same way.

When producing an online report we focus on:

• Design
• Core content
• Best practice functionality
• Usability
• Accessibility
• Navigation
• Timeliness
• Technical know-how

In August 2007, AIM Rule 26 was introduced for all AIM companies to ensure that information is presented on corporate websites accurately and in a timely fashion. As the first port of call for investors, analysts and other stakeholders, the website is by far the best means of research on a company, so it is important that the investment picture is presented clearly and with transparency.

Design Portfolio Online Services can work with you to ensure you are including all of the required information on your site and will remind you when updates are needed.

We work to the following checklist:

Company information Description of the business or investment strategy for investment companies Directors' names, biographies, responsibilities and committees Country of incorporation and main country of operation (disclaimer required if non-UK) Details of NOMAD and key company advisers

Securities information Details of current and future exchanges and platforms on which securities are traded The number of securities in issue (noting those held in treasury) updated every six months The percentage of securities not in public hands (where known) updated every six months Identity and percentage holding of significant shareholders updated every six months Details of any restrictions on the transfer of AIM securities

Documentation and announcements Public documents including prospectus, admissions documents and articles of association The most recent annual report and accounts The most recent interim report Any publications or communications sent to shareholders within the last twelve months

General requirements The website should belong to the AIM company but may be hosted and managed by a third party The website should be kept up to date and should display the date it was last updated A declaration should be made stating that the information is being disclosed in accordance with Rule 26. All required information should be easily accessible from the same area of the website A website visitor should not need to use a search facility to find any of this information

Intranets are a prime means of communication between a company and its employees, allowing a company to share information and its systems internally. Branded with the corporate identity, intranets encourage two way communications between a company and its employees, an important stakeholder. Extranets go one step further and provide access to company information for suppliers, customers and other stakeholders. Tailor-made to suit our clients’ requirements, we build each intranet/extranet with multi-functionality and the latest technology.

Storage space and download speeds are a must, along with:

• Design
• Core content
• Best practice functionality
• Usability
• Accessibility
• Navigation
• Timeliness
• Technical know-how

 

We can help you catalogue all of your corporate and product photography, building a
password-protected, database-driven website with low, medium and high res versions of each photograph. As simple or as complex as required, and with security, server space and download speeds in mind, we take the hassle out of uploading/copying and ordering hundreds of photographs.

 

Run through any mainstream web browser, our inDPendent remote authoring system allows clients to make updates and changes to their corporate reports securely and in real time. With the ability to amend text and suggest image and layout changes day or night, inDPendent puts clients in charge of updating their own reports, with support from our experienced in-house typesetting, artwork and proofreading teams.