Allied worked with Story Worldwide to provide UPS with an award-winning website to accompany their print publication, Compass, which is designed to keep their customers updated on the latest developments in smart shipping, supply-chain management, international trade and UPS products and services. We continue to proudly support and maintain the website, which has seen strong growth since its inception. Winner, Ektron All Star Award for Best Services Website, 2007. From the award press release:

"Ektron's All-Stars have built highly successful sites

that combine clear design and navigation with compelling content and forward-thinking strategies," said Bill Rogers, founder and chief executive officer, Ektron. "Allied Consulting has demonstrated excellence in developing a site for Compass UPS that raises the quality of service for thousands of customers worldwide."

Languages/Platforms: Microsoft .Net 2.0, Ektron CMS.

Working with Blast Radius, HUGE Inc., and NutriSystem's own internal team of skilled developers, Allied Consulting LLC supplied on-site resources to handle client-side scripting of user interfaces and business logic for the NutriSystem Food Customization application. The application allows users to customize the types and quantities of food products in their new or existing NutriSystem plan, and their a la carte shopping cart; to call it simply client-side scripting is to understate the role: the application fully relies on it's jQuery and Dojo JavaScript framework underpinnings to communicate and synchronize all user interactions with the NutriSystem shopping experience with the backend ATG Dynamo servers. Languages/Platforms: jQuery 1.3, Dojo 1.3.3 (Design provided by HUGE)

In order to get the word out to the employee force to complete the all-new Code of Conduct, American Express contracted K-Nekt Strategic Communications and Allied Consulting LLC to create a stimulating, effective series of e-communications and leadership resources that would leverage their existing content publishing systems. Allied delivered to provide another of the most prominent corporations in the world with high quality intranet and email newsletter templates. Languages/Platforms: XHTML 1.1 (Strict), jQuery 1.3 (Design provided by K-Nekt)

Allied integrated with Time Inc.'s development team, as well as vendor Blast Radius, to produce the accompanying website to Golf Magazine. We focused on the content management and templating aspects of the site, while working with some of the industries brightest professionals who focused on the outstanding, brand-leading tools of the site, like up-to-the-minute Tour leaderboards and player profiles. Languages/Platforms: Vignette StoryServer/V5, TCL. (Design provided by Blast Radius)

The Bank of America 2006 Annual Report (launched in April 2007) was a labor-intensive project requiring a large amount of very precise development to be completed in a short timeframe, to the standard of the bank known for Higher Standards. Working with Story Worldwide and Bank of America, Allied developed an ADA and W3C standards-compliant website that helped to give an intuitive, polished and human-friendly face to otherwise tedious financial data. Languages/Platforms: Microsoft .Net 2.0, XHTML/CSS.

Under contract of social media pioneer Buddy Media Inc. and with flash games provided by SkyWorks Technologies, Allied created a suite of social games for facebook that saw immediate and lasting success; Mental Blocks, Sudoku, Air Hockey, Pub Darts, and others launched in October 2007 and collectively gathered over a million loyal users. The games, which are also available on the ESPN game network, were adapted to facebook to include user-to-user challenge matches, real-time chatrooms, daily/monthly/all time scoreboards, and issue AceBucks, a social network virtual currency, to facebook users for playing. Mental Blocks, the most popular, enjoys an average of eight thousand users a day, 750k pageviews a month.
Languages/Platforms: Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. (Games now owned and operated by Buddy Media Inc.)

Our consultants worked with the editorial team at Bonnier Corporation's Outdoor Life magazine and engineers from Web 2.0 e-commerce portal TheFind.com to bring 'click to buy' functionality to the existing Field Tested application. Users of OutdoorLife.com can now search or browse for products, read editorial ratings and reviews from a brand they trust, and purchase products immediately through a secure, trusted vendor. Languages/Platforms: Vignette StoryServer/V5, TCL, Verity.

The Alter Group, a well-known commercial real estate firm based in Chicago, needed a brochure-ware site that simply called out informative points about their newly developed buildings at Westfields Commercial Park in Chantilly, Virginia. The Client provided Allied with the creative, and Allied created a web site that informed potential renters of all the information they would possibly need in order to rent space in the buildings, without for one second being dull or boring. The site's press releases section is tied into a content management system, making adding or editing articles a breeze for the novice web user. Languages/Platforms: PHP Web Site.

Charmco is a beautiful, simplified e-commerce website, that has been tailored to meet the needs of its users and owners, while retaining a very simple, clean user experience. Allied applied the latest search engine optimization techniques to increase web visibility of the site dramatically, landing them on the first page of key sites like Google.com and Yahoo.com when key terms are searched on ("antique charms" and "vintage charms", for example). Allied installed the securely served shopping cart system; we also developed the "Design Your Own Bracelet" section of the site. Google Analytics has been applied to the site by Allied in order to derive valuable customer data - including conversion rates by search engine and keyword - that allows charmco to better identify and target their best customers. Languages/Platforms: .Net 1.1/DotNetStoreFront E-Commerce Platform/MS Sql Server 2000. (Design provided by charmco.com)

Moravian College, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, required a web application that would allow their existing and prospective students to search through their course catalog and programs listing, with the ability to drill down to individual course details, and, when available, link to register for and purchase the course. The .Net application (and the accompanying web site) launched for the Spring term of 2006, and has been a giant success. Languages/Platforms: .NET 1.1/C#/MSSQL 2000 Web Application. (Design provided by Volution Media Group)

Some skincare lines come and go. This year's miracle ingredient is often next year's outdated science.Then there are those exceptional lines that not only deliver results, but are truly compelling because they are based on real human experience and a brand narrative not created by a corporate marketing team, but by a personal history. (Design provided by Ana Manrique)

Grant & Eisenhofer had performed 360 performance reviews on paper for years. The once-simple task of distributing the right reviews to the right people, compiling the review data, and measurement of that data over time was incredibly time consuming if not impossible with their existing paper system. At their request, Allied created a proprietary web application that would allow the firm to create reviews and address their recipients based on an existing database of legal matters, send the evaluations via e-mail at a designated time, receive incoming review data, and compile the data received from the evaluations over time. The PRS (Performance Review System) application created a huge cost savings for the Client that is immediately realized in the form of reduced hours spent compiling data, as well as long term savings generated by simply having better way to monitor employee performance in specific categories over time. This application is deployed via their private intranet, and so can not be viewed externally. However, a demonstration can be given upon request. Languages/Platforms: .NET 1.1/C#/MSSQL 2000 Web Application.

k-nekt, formerly Knapp Design, wanted to rebrand its image as the leader in intelligent design. Using design mockups provided by K-Nekt, Allied created a flash-only website that showcases the firm's strengths, and displayed their large body of portfolio work in a clean, easy to use, fun way. (Note: The portfolio section reads from an external XML file, so updating the content does not require the Client to re-author the flash movie). Languages/Platforms: Macromedia Flash 7 Web Site. (Design provided by K-Nekt.com)

This site was designed to showcase the design and video direction talents of MaxNova.net. DHTML tooltips and embedded Quicktime videos highlight a clean, simple website that was developed with ease of updates in mind. Languages/Platforms: PHP/DHTML. (Design provided by Client)

Ecclissi watches had a new line of watches hitting the market with no good way to display them all to the public. Allied created this site as an elegant solution for in-store display as well as to catch the eye of the web user. Languages/Platforms: Macromedia Flash 7 Web Site.

SecurityWorld.com, owned by Winner Corporation (makers of the Club), came to Allied with an existing e-commerce web site that had been hacked and mottled to accomplish different tasks over the years since its inception. They had a large library of online information articles as "flat" html pages, as well as a large e-commerce store full of products, on two disparate systems with no way to cross-promote them. We were able to upgrade their systems, insert all of their articles into a database driven content management system, and reconstruct their commerce platform to allow for promotion of products on key areas of the site. Now, their site can be modified and added to quickly and easily, by a novice computer user. Languages/Platforms: PHP/ShopSite E-Commerce Platform/MySQL Web E-Commerce Application. (Design provided by Axial Digital)

Accompanying web site to The Botox Book. Languages/Platforms: PHP Web Site.