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Romec on Fire (and Security)

Fish.Net and Romec launch Fire and Security sitelet

Fish.Net and Romec have launched a new Fire and Security sitelet for the Stockport-based facilities management giant.

Romec undertook a major brand refrresh earlier this year. As part of this, Fish.Net gave their Web presence an overhaul.

The launch of the Fire and Security sitelet - a self-contained web site beneath the umbrella of the corporate site - is the latest development of this brand refresh.

Reinforcing the dual branding of Romec as a corporate entity and Fire and Security as a service, the sitelet can be used in isolation, or in conjunction with the corporate site.

It features information about Romec's Fire and Security services, including news and relevant case studies.

The sitelet is fully content managed, allowing Romec to independantly update the site quickly and easily with minimal technical knowledge required.

The launch of the Fire and Security sitelet also features a number of evolutions of the existing corporate site.

Focussing on the strengths of Romec's service offerings, the evolved site features a number of cross-promotional signposts, allowing visitors to easily navigate between related pages.

The site also now features rich 'pan and zoom' animations to illustrate the company's offering.

Visit the Fire and Security sitelet.

Announcing Fish.Net Online

Tech magazine for business people

Fish.Net is delighted to announce the launch of Fish.Net Online, our online magazine covering all things Internet, IT and Communications.

Far from being an elitist rag for tech-heads, Fish.Net will digest the important news in the tech world and let you know how it will affect you.

The site will be regularly updated with news about the Web, Systems and Networks, the general business world, Software and the Internet.

Take a look today!

Working from Home

Fish.Net has recently set up and configured remote system access for key Emanuel Whittaker staff.

Using a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, staff can now securely access files and emails from home or other remote locations.

VPNs create a secure ‘tunnel’ through the Internet, allowing staff to transfer information between locations, without fear of confidential data being intercepted.

Aside form the clear business benefits of providing access from multiple locations, VPNs enable companies to provide flexible working arrangements to staff.

To find out how Fish.Net can implement a VPN for your business, simply contact us.

Email Exchanged

Translec upgrade mail server to Microsoft Exchange 2007

Fish.Net has upgraded Translec’s email system to take advantage of the mobile groupware tools present in Microsoft Exchange 2007.

With smartphone and 3G technology now able to support the much-vaunted promises of mobile groupware, Translec felt it was time to take advantage of mobile email, shared calendars, contacts and task lists.

Fish.Net deployed Exchange 2007 across Translec’s network and mobile infrastructure, including securing and configuring secure certificates for the mobile smartphones for key staff.

Read all about it!

Read Garden Centre goes online...

When long-term Fish.Net customer Emanuel Whittaker acquired a garden centre in the picturesque Ribble Valley village of Read, they naturally turned to us to plant the seeds of its Internet presence.

Following a recent refurbishment, Read Garden Centre needed an attractive web site to compliment its ongoing offline advertising campaign. 

Focussing on the beautiful riverside location and stunning selection of products, the web site gives visitors a tantalising taste of what’s in store for when they visit!

We will be nurturing the web site over the coming months, so bookmark the site so you can see it grow.

You can view the site at www.readgardencentre.co.uk

Saddleworth Golf Club

Fore!

Fish.Net has completed a spring-clean of the tills and back office system at Saddleworth Golf Club’s 19th hole!

Following our health check, systems were given a general spring clean and memory updates applied where appropriate.

Additionally, a wireless repeater was added to the network, so that the duty bar manager can access and manage the point of sale machine from anywhere in the bar area via a netbook computer.

Romec Rebrand and Refresh

Giant facilities management company again choose Fish.Net

Facilities Management company Romec have once again chosen Fish.Net to refresh their web presence.

Co-owned by the Royal Mail and Balfour Beatty, Romec provide a wide range of services to an impressive blue chip client list including Marks & Spencer, the British Museum and La Poste.

The relaunched web site promotes the six broad service sectors in the form of sitelets - effectively each service has its own self-contained site within the umbrella corporate site.

The web site is completely content managed, allowing Romec's marketing department to update any part of the web site quickly and easily with minimal technical knowledge required.

Michele Hayes, Fish.Net's Operations Director, commented "Fish.Net have once again demonstrated our ability to work with large brands and to tight deadlines.  Although based in a traditional Saddleworth village, our capacity and approach to communicating via the Web compares favourably to city- based studios".

Michele continued "We're delighted with the final product, and look forward to continuing our 12 year relationship with Romec".

View the relaunched site >>

Berry Well Connected

Johnson Construction roll out Blackberries

Johnson Construction has equipped key personnel with BlackBerry smartphones, with help from Fish.Net.

Tying in directly with Microsoft Exchange Server’s Web access, Johnson Construction personnel now have real time mobile email access on the go using BlackBerry’s push technology.

Fish.Net can help implement BlackBerry and other smartphone technology across your organisation – get in touch to find out more.

Life Lessons

Young learners on Joint Learning Partnership’s Entry to Employment programmes are now able to browse relevant web sites and use office applications, thanks to Fish.Net’s configuration of a separate secure network at the company.

Using stringent group policies to lock down permissions, the network allows young learners to access permitted applications, such as Word Processors and Web Browsers, whilst restricting access to other areas of the network.

Fish.Net is involved in the ongoing maintenance of the network.

Lord Group energised by integration with Kinetics

Following the acquisition of The Lord Group by Kinetics, Fish.Net was approached to assist with the integration with the new parent company’s infrastructure.

A new Microsoft Exchange 2007 email and groupware system was created and configured, and emails from the old IMAP server were migrated.

Fish.Net also assisted in the integration with Kinetic’s hosted desktop system.

Fish.Net Hit for Six!

Another first-class web site from Fish.Net…

Fish.Net has put the finishing touches to Enterprise Coaching - a web site for cricket star Kyle Hogg's new sport coaching school.

We were hit for six when Kyle - a pro with Lancashire CCC, who started his career at local club Greenfield - approached us to create the site.

Kyle started Enterprise Coaching with Andrew Gleave, a talented all-rounder who plays for Cumberland CCC and Micklehurst CC.  They aim to provide high quality cricket coaching to children, promoting fitness, sport and all- round fun.

The site, sporting a distinctly Crickety theme, is fully content managed, allowing Kyle and Andrew to easily update any aspect of the content.

Kyle and Andrew were bowled over by the site - we hope you are too!

You can visit the site at www.enterprise-coaching.co.uk

Fish.Net Portfolio Hots Up!

Pennine Geothermal Web Site Launched...

Fish.Net is delighted to add www.penninegeothermal.co.uk to its growing portfolio.

Over five years ago, Pennine Drilling and Grouting approached Fish.Net to develop its main company web site. The result was www.penninegrouting.co.uk.

The Rochdale-based company has since expanded into the geothermal drilling market, and naturally chose Fish.Net to develop their geothermal web site.

We're delighted to continue working alongside Pennine Drilling and Grouting in all aspects of IT systems and their web presence.

Spammers beware!

Another MailSpike appliance installed.

Following an influx of spam – unsolicited email clogging up email inboxes – Fish.Net has installed a MailSpike Anti-spam appliance at Emanuel Whittaker.

MailSpike – a small LU rack mounted appliance with low power consumption – uses the latest technology to combat spam, an increasingly costly problem for companies large and small.

Using a combination of open source operating systems, software and Fish.Net’s unparalleled expertise in combating spam, Mail Spike has led to a dramatic reduction in spam.

Take the first step to reducing spam by contacting us today.

easier Bookings for easyJet Lounges

easy does it...

As part of the recent redevelopment of the Servisair Executive Lounges web site, Fish.Net have freshened the design of easyJet’s white-label reseller web site.

Servisair and Fish.Net have worked together with easyJet to provide easyJet customers with an easy-to-use airport lounge booking web site since 2005, to great success. The latest redesign incorporates the new features added to the main www.executivelounges.com web site, but skinned with the corporate easyJet style.

Fish.Net have also designed and implemented white label sites for a variety of airports, airlines and other travel and hospitality related companies.

Why not take a look at the easyJet Lounges web site now? (opens in new window)

WomensWebWorks Enters Pilot Phase

Women Power...

WomensWebWorks, a social networking site for business and career-minded Women, has entered into the pilot testing stage.

WomensWebWorks focuses on realising potential and building success, offering women-to-women support and networking, and inspiring women to achieve their potential through networking and action.

The Web site achieves this through interactive quizzes and exercises, blogs, forums, a Business MarketPlace, and Womens’ Networks spaces.

WomensWebWorks is completely self-managed, with key personnel having the ability to manage content, contributions and advertising. The site is growing organically with its members’ experiences.

Although we can’t give out full access details just yet, watch this space to see when it’s fully available for the public to use!

Announcing MailSpike

Fish.Net's anti-spam appliance

Fish.Net are delighted to announce the launch of Mail Spike – a robust anti-spam appliance utilising the very latest in anti-spam technology.

Available in several variations, Mail Spike can be configured to work with any mail system for a small/medium company – whether you use a POP3/SMTP or Microsoft Exchange setup. Alternatively, Mail Spike can act as a combined Mail Server and Spam Firewall.

Based on a solid open source architecture, MailSpike is a small 1U rack mounted appliance, with a low power consumption. Developed as a low-cost solution to the ever-increasing and costly problem of spam, it has been successfully tested both internally at Fish.Net and at McKellens Chartered Accountants, based in Manchester.

To find out more about MailSpike, contact us.

Relocation, Relocation - Part 2

Joint Learning Partnership relocates

Following an acquisition by Microcom Training, Southport-based Joint Learning Partnership (JLP) has moved to new premises in the Hillside area of the town.

Fish.Net advised JLP on its network infrastructure in the two new offices – their head office and separate Young Learner e2e (Entry to Employment) office. They also implemented a VPN between the two premises, providing a secure tunnel for sensitive data to pass between offices without fear of interception.

Fish.Net also assisted JLP to adopt their IT infrastructure to fit with the new parent company’s operations.

Servisair Redesigned

www.executivelounges.com relaunched

Fish.Net are delighted to complete the redesign of www.executivelounges.com, the e-commerce web site recognised at the Big Chip awards.

Servisair, Europe's leading operators in aviation ground services, yet again commissioned Fish.Net to refresh and refine the overall look and feel and booking process.

Servisair's Executive Lounges serve more than 1 million travelling passengers each year in their well equipped, stylish airport lounges.

Fish.Net is responsible for all aspects of Executive Lounges on-line presence. The executivelounges.com site provides on-line booking at over 50 airport lounges with automatic credit card clearing, booking editing, and an administrative interface for tracking customers, making refunds, setting prices.

Fish.Net also handle all aspects of e-marketing for the web site, including running targeted special offers and marketing campaigns.

Servisair's General Manager, Tim Colehan, thanked the Fish.Net team:

"The relaunch of executivelounges.com together with FishNet's excellent management of our CPC campaigns and SEO optimisation has enabled us to significantly improve revenues and sales conversions in a very short timescale.

Thanks for the effort you've all put into the redevelopment of www.executivelounges.com... a job well done"

You can view the redesigned web site here:

http://www.executivelounges.com/ (opens in new window)

Johnson Construction Opens New Office

Fish.Net assist

Johnson Construction has expanded into Scotland with the opening of a Glasgow-based office, and Fish.Net has been integral in designing and implementing the expanded IT infrastructure.

Fish.Net rose to the challenge of enabling seamless communication between the main Saddleworth-based office and the new presence in Glasgow. Implementing a Virtual Private Network (VPN), Johnson Construction is able to send data through the Internet via a secure tunnel, without fear of sensitive data being intercepted.

Recognising the speed limitations of the Internet, Fish.Net also implemented a data replication system, allowing data from both sites to be periodically merged to reduce traffic requirements.

Relocation, Relocation

Ford Consulting moves office

Ford Consulting called upon Fish.Net’s expertise during a recent location following expansion.

Working in conjunction with their wiring contractor, Fish.Net gave advice on the configuration and layout of network access points, switches and servers in the new office.

Office relocation can often be a testing time for companies. Fish.Net can help alleviate some of the pressure by advising on IT and telecommunications infrastructure in your new office – simply contact us to find out more.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Fish.Net hosted a very successful coffee morning

Fish.Net would like to say a BIG Thank You to everyone who contributed in many different ways to our Macmillan Coffee morning.

A fantastic £860 was raised for Macmillan Cancer Support.

We'd like to thank everyone who has helped make our coffee mornings so successful; not only a great excuse to get together, but over the last four years our coffee mornings have raised nearly £2500 to help support those people living with cancer.

We've also been touched by those of you who've shared your personal experiences of cancer with us, or who've donated in memory of friends and family.