Directory: WEB & INTERACTIVE MEDIA

 
     _{WEB DESIGNERS & DEVELOPERS}

::  Absolute Design

::  am:pm

::  Art Art Design

::  Blessed Creative

::  Boost Creative Marketing

::  Clockwork Media

::  Creative Resolve

::  dirtee

::  David John Farmer

::  Fired Up Marketing

::  Fifteen Media

::  Gavis

::  i DSGN - David Clowes

::  Jeef

::  jellifish

::  Koko Digital

::  HCL

::  k4design

::  lab fifteen

::  Limelight Marketing Communications

::  Mother

::  Moonlighting

::  The Motion Monkey & FlashPromo

::  Net Marketeers

::  Newfangled Media

::  smARTstudiosUK

::  OH UK Net

::  penlix

::  Project Design

::  red 2 design

::  Slave to Design

::  Snowstorm Design

::  Thin Digital

::  Webzen

::  Vertigo Studios

     _{SERVICE-PROVIDERS & BROADBAND}

::  Internet Central - a leading national ISP which has been providing ADSL broadband to North Staffordshire for three years. Based on Keele Science Park, Internet Central also offer bespoke networks & business solutions.

::  Luna Internet - a local ISP providing hosting & broadband web access.

::  Synetrix - specialists in building large-scale broadband for business, government and education. Based on Keele Science Park.

::   Consumer broadband in the North Staffordshire area can be had from either NTL/Telewest (via cable modem, up to 20mb/s), or BT Total Broadband (via wifi router, up to 8mb/s).

::   Businesses based in remoter rural areas can take advantage of the West Midlands satellite-based Rabbit (Remote Area Broadband Inclusion Trial) broadband service. Supported by government funding, Rabbit offers up to £700 of subsidy to remote rural businesses.

::   Wi-fi net access is available to all users of Virgin trains on the West Coast Mainline ( London > Birmingham > Stoke > Manchester ) train line.

     _{GAMES & SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS}

::  AstraWare - company which develops and markets its interactive games for the Palm, and which is currently developing games for the forthcoming Microsoft Smartphone. Based at Keele Science Park.

::  Datel Design - based in Stone. UK's leading manufacturer of videogame products, books and magazines.

::  JD Design - developers of shareware utilities for Windows. Based in Mow Cop.

::   Music on my PC - a new commercial site for computer-based music creation, run by a Lecturer in Music Technology at Keele, who lives at Stone. Jane is also currently putting the finishing touches to her own music software product.

::  Koko Digital can offer Flash games.

::  Live Information Systems - developer of content-management systems.

::  Seventh Form - software development company. Based in Stoke-on-Trent.

::  inSignificant Productions - based at Keele. Games authoring for online and mobile delivery. Also multimedia CD authoring - their interactive Macbeth won a BETT Award.

::  Online Bills - ASP specialist in web-driven online billing solutions. Based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Martin Eiliff - freelance multimedia developer. Based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

     _DISTRIBUTORS

::  THE - based in Newcastle-under-Lyme. One of the UK's largest wholesalers and distributors of multimedia and computer games. Also now branching into publishing.

     _{SPECIALIST HARDWARE}

::  OverClockers - based in Fenton, Stoke. "Europe's most successful on-line seller of high-performance PC components." An ideal local source for the deadline-meeting high-end hardware needed to set up a studio producing computer-games, creating 3D animation, editing video files, or creating digital artwork.

::  Faraday Technology - based in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Everything you need for signal processing from video.

     _{ONLINE GALLERIES OF DIGITAL ART}

::  BBC Radio Stoke's photography gallery, Chrysalis, profiles the work of Photography students at Staffordshire University.

::  Artsablaze - web-based commercial gallery, from Congleton.