We here at Continuum have just launched a newly redesigned, revamped, and re-energised website for Energia, one of the largest independent energy suppliers in Ireland.

We’ve been working closely with Energia since 2008 and the new, bespoke design showcases the features of energy giant, one of Ireland’s top 50 companies. Over the years, we’ve rolled out a number of websites, intranets, and extranets for Energia and we haven’t been resting on our laurels in between projects either.

We provide Energia with on-going digital strategy whereby we integrate user, manager and progress reports (including analytics) which allows all users at company level to manage all aspects of their projects. Energia also have peace of mind as they remain fully supported on our dedicated support system.

Energia’s new redesign is the latest entry in a long standing relationship with us and our designers and developers were delighted to capture the energy of Energia and send the new site out into the world!

 Visit the site – www.energia.ie

When you’re tasked with building a website for fantastic food companies, it’s hard not to get hungry when you’re presented with picture after picture of fantastic food!

Well, our designers felt that pain over the last few weeks as we designed, built, and launched two new Sitefinity sites for Silverhill Farm and Keelings, two acclaimed food producers.

Silverhill Farm rear the renowned and award-winning ‘Silverhill Duck’ which is found in the best Chinese restaurants in Europe. But besides this, Silverhill are a family-run company with a long history of quality. So Continuum worked closely with Silverhill to develop this aspect of their site and give their users that family feeling.

And while Silverhill have a wealth of family history, they were also looking to the future by integrating responsive design, online recipes, and a full product catalogue into their new site.

Visit the site - http://silverhillfarm.ie/

Keelings on the other hand wowed us with their selection of organic fruit and vegetables, the colours of which inspired their new site to become one of the most colourful projects Continuum have ever worked on!

Keelings’ motto is ‘Love to Grow’ and they’re growing their online presence by investing in responsive design, digital strategy, and search engine optimisation with Continuum to draw attention to themselves online.

Visit the site - http://www.keelings.com/

So, we while our mouths watered and our tummies growled, we produced two distinct, colourful, and responsive sites for two of Ireland’s most famous food companies that we’re ecstatic about.

But next time, we’ll eat before we build!

Following an extensive global reach research program by Continuum on behalf of Byrne Looby Patners, Continuum have launched the first phase for International Engineering Consulting practice Byrne Looby Partners. With defined online objectives including increasing international brand awareness, new lead generation and recruitment, Byrne Looby needed a cohesive online strategy coupled with an authoritative and engaging website.

With diverse targeting audiences (Europe, North Africa and the Middle East) and a wide range of services (including Water, Oil/gas and Engineering Project Management), Continuum used detailed research to dictate the direction of BLP’s strategy and to build a visually engaging and easy to navigate new BLP website that successfully communicates with multiple different audience types across different territories.

 View the site at www.blpge.com.

With over 100,000 organisations around the world using Sitefinity, each month Telerik (the Sitefinity CMS developers) select specific Sitefinity websites that excel in a range of areas including functionality, creativity and user experience.

For the second time in the last 6 months Continuum, are delighted to be awarded Global Website of the Month – this time for Megazyme.com.

Megazyme International Ireland develops and supplies diagnostic test kits and analytical reagents to a wide range of industries. Megazyme markets a range of over 500 products, both direct to customers and via a network of International Distributors, in 90 countries. Export sales account for 98% of turnover with online being central to their on-going  success.

"Megazyme is delighted to be recognised by Telerik as one of the top 5 sites launched in January 2013. Sitefinity has many wonderful features and functionalities that are both intuitive and user friendly. This allows for us to continually maintain and improve our brochure site, enhancing our customer’s experience and how we are represented online.”

Gary Power, Operations & Marketing Manager
Megazyme International Ireland

Continuum are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for Best Digital Media Agency in the Digital Media Awards 2013.

The finalists were chosen based on the overall quality of the work, the technologies deployed, the standard of design, how strategies and campaigns were devised to achieve their objectives, and the return on investment clients received for the projects. Judges were looking for an agency that is with expertise across all digital platforms to excite, enthuse, and inspire.

We have also been shortlisted for our work with Chernobyl Children’s Charity.  Continuum has now released their second generation website for CCI and the finalists were selected based on the success of a website and online campaign in achieving a positive social impact or advocating for a particular social cause.  This site can be viewed at http://www.chernobyl-international.com/

Some of our recent content management projects (including a few award finalists) are now being showcased on the Sitefinity website including the Aviva Stadium website (www.avivastadium.ie) which won the Sitefinity Global website of the month award in 2012!

Continuum are a Platinum Sitefinity partner and are in their top ten partners in their world-wide network of over 300 partners in 40 countries.

Our portfolio includes a wide range of our clients with all embracing web content managed websites.  The majority of these websites have had extensive new features, designs and integrations developed by Continuum.

You can view our work at this address:

 http://www.sitefinity.com/partners/solution-partners/details/continuum

If you would like next-generation web content management empowering you to manage your websites, drive business processes, and engage with your online audience, get in touch, we've lots to talk to you about!

Continuum are delighted to be shortlisted for "Best Web Design & Development Agency" in this year's Eircom Spider Awards.

The Web Design and Development Agency 2012 eircom Spiders award is for an agency who specialise in developments and designing websites for clients. Agencies are judged on creative work that they have completed over the past 12 months. The judges are looking for innovative use of the online environment to execute their website and will be basing their criteria on creativity, development, delivery to brief and overall client experience.

We are also shortlisted for the "eBusiness (exclusive web business) for Bid4Lights.  This award is for exclusively web-based businesses that provide site visitors with an intuitive, user-friendly and viable means of doing business securely online. This category applies to e Business, e Commerce, and B2B and B2C websites and excludes portals. Judges were looking for innovative tools and processes with a clever use of contextual technologies or an original use of the internet to trade or deliver a service.

 The 2012 Eircom Spiders will take place on November 1st at The Convention Centre Dublin.  Fingers Crossed!

Continuum, Ireland’s leading digital strategy agency,  have been awarded the 2012 Chambers Ireland's Corporate Social Responsibility Award for Excellence in CSR for an SME.
The award celebrates Continuum’s work with Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children’s International. 

Continuum’s Managing Director travelled to the worst affected areas from the Chernobyl disaster to understand fully the nature of the projects and the Continuum staff worked closely with the CEO and board of CCI to conceive and rollout a comprehensive internet strategy and online presence that spans and measures all relevant digital communication channels over 5 years and serves as a primary fundraising channel.

Accepting the award, Managing Director, Colin Meagle acknowledged the positive impact of having a CSR strategy on the motivation and commitment of the staff of his organization.  He stated that “The Continuum team are very aware of their active CSR policy.  This is not something we do in our spare time.  We embrace CSR as a key component of our business strategy.  It’s only through the understanding and belief in the value and importance of our CSR role that  very worthy initiatives can be delivered”.
He acknowledged that his clients appreciate the Continuum contribution back to the community and they in many ways are part of that initiative. 

Since Continuum was founded in early 2002, part of the company ethos and partnership responsibility has been to give back and to assist charities and communities help themselves.  As part of this engagement, MD, Colin travelled with some board members of CCI to the most affected areas of the Chernobyl disaster to understand first-hand the plight of nuclear meltdown and how it affect the lives of a new generation after more than a quarter of a century.

Adi Roche, CEO, Chernobyl Children’s International congratulated Continuum on the award stating

“Every charity is struggling as Ireland continues to suffer from an economic tsunami.  Companies Corporate Social Responsibility now takes on an even larger burden of helping charities survive. Chernobyl Children International is one such charity that has become indebted to CSR.  Continuum has been a 'Torch bearer' for us enabling the charity to use the Internet to tell the story of Chernobyl to a worldwide audience.  Through the two websites built by Continuum in tandem with developing our social networks we have been able to keep the tragic story of Chernobyl alive.  This lifeline provided by Continuum has helped to save countless lives & helped give a strong message of solidarity to the survivors.

"Continuum has gone beyond the 'call of duty' as their dedicated staff gives more than their skills & time.  Their MD Colin Meagle, has taken the extra step & joined humanitarian teams working in the field in the most affected areas by the Chernobyl disaster.  He has also worked with us in a children's mental asylum where he showed his compassion & love to countless abandoned children. Our charity is thrilled to have been chosen by Continuum as their CSR recipient & we look forward to many years of rewarding work together. “

 Speaking at the Chambers Ireland event Colin Meagle told guests that  “It’s a privilege in my career to work with such talented and selfless staff as I do.   On behalf of the directors and staff of Continuum, I would like to thank Adi and her team for allowing us to get so involved and I am extremely proud of this award and the role our company has played in this project.”

Founded in 2002, Continuum specialise in internet-based strategy, services, applications, and online marketing solutions.  Continuum are a full service agency who work in partnership with their clients as their digital department to ensure they harness the internet to develop new business opportunities that turn into progressive, measurable growth.

Continuum celebrated its 10th year in business by recently announcing growth in 2012 of over 30% including a large recruitment campaign. 

Pictured below at the awards:  Adi Roche (CEO - Chernobyl Children's International) and Colin Meagle (Continuum MD).

The Website of the Month Awards honor the top ten global Sitefinity websites launched on a particular month. Recognition is based on creativity, user experience and the use or application of the latest Sitefinity features and functionality.

Continuum are delighted to be awarded Global Website of the Month for AvivaStadium.ie from Sitefinity. The site is optimised for easy marketing of the stadium and events including options to dynamically review a detailed seating map and pick a spot for an upcoming concert or sports event. The stadium gallery gives a detailed overview of the different facilities and location of entrances. So there goes any excuses for being late to a match or concert in Aviva Stadium again! ;o)

"The new site designed and built by Continuum looks fantastic and the stadium are confident that it will exceed our visitors expectations on all platforms"

- Claire Seale - Aviva Stadium Sponsorship and Marketing.

The site is built in Sitefinity CMS 5.1 and represents the latest in content managed mobile responsive design.  The site can be viewed at www.avivastadium.ie.

Chambers Ireland has announced the shortlist for the 2012 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. Now in their ninth year, the Awards continue to go from strength to strength with more new companies than ever entering this year.

We are thrilled that Continuum has been shortlisted for Best Digital Strategy for our work with Chernobyl Children's International. Firstly, its great to be shortlisted but its even better when its for such a worth while charity.

It will be hard to work with our fingers and toes crossed!

The 2012 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards will take place on Thursday 27th September in The Burlington Hotel.