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We are proud to announce, after several months in the planning and development stages, the new ANLP website (Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming) went live yesterday.

We completely redesigned the previous ANLP website, vastly improving the ease of use, helping users find the information they are after. Along with successfully migrating the large amount of existing data, the new wesbite adds many new features and improves on existing ones including:

• Blogs
• Online shop
• Member sign-up and subscriptions
• Search
• Book reviews
• Public and private forums
• Advertising
• Content Management System
• and many more...

There are even more great features which are in the planning and we will be continuing to support and develop the website further in the near future.

We're delighted to welcome Carl to the team. Carl will be working alongside Ash and the rest of the website development team to deliver updates to existing client sites, create new websites and help to extend our range of spart website plugins and also our range of business support web tools such as Spartmail and also our soon to be released Spartoffice product.

Before joining the Sparticle team Carl has worked in a number of industries, including solicitors and the police, providing excellent client side IT support.

Please join us in welcoming Carl to the Sparticle website development team!

Based at the heart of Scotland's world-leading life sciences industry, Edinburgh BioQuarter offer the ideal environment for spin-out companies, start-up firms and new ventures by established pharmaceutical companies.

We took Edinburgh BioQuarter's existing website and by making various updates to their design greatly improved on both the look and feel and also usuability. Incorporating many features including twitter feeds, news blog (using out spartpress plugin), gallery (using our spartav plugin) and also a secured area (using out spartsecurity plugin).

With the website now live we will be working closely with Edinburgh BioQuarter to continue to deliver support with content updates, further SEO improvements, and more...

Visit: Edinburgh BioQuarter Website

Doug O'Brien is a successful therapist and author of "Sleight of Mouth" the ebook. Doug has had a number of eCommerce and blog based websites designed, hosted and supported by us and we're really glad to get this video testimonial. After all it's a reliable way of letting you know that other people, like you, are out there, and are happy to recommend that we're the team to use! Thanks Doug. Check out Doug's sites on our client list page.

Local Business Networking a Roaring Success.

Kent based charity LionAid, who are committed to halting and reversing the massive decline in Lion populations have really benefited from Kent's great business networking. In October LionAid trustee Chris Macsween had a chance meeting with Mark Zaretti, director of the Canterbury based website development company Sparticle.com at a business network meeting.

“I had heard about LionAid and I wondered what they were all about.” said Mark. “Having studied Biology at University, I'm always interested in wildlife issues. When I heard Chris speaking about the plight of Lions and the fact that, despite the work by other charities, over 90% of the worlds lions have been lost in the last 50 years, I was genuinely shocked and moved.”

Over the next few weeks Chris and Mark's paths crossed at a number of networking events including Counterpoint and Cathedral BNI business meetings in Canterbury. After the BNI meeting I invited Chris to join me for a coffee in town and we discussed LionAid's work.

“At LionAid we realise that traditional approaches to Lion conservation are not working, as seen by the massive decline in Lion populations. We take a different approach and are actively engaging with politicians, diplomats, policy makers as well as game reserves, hunting organisations, scientists and other parties who have a real say and impact on Lion populations. It's not easy and often feels like David and Goliath.” explains Chris.

“Our PR and marketing was really hampered by not having a good website. Luckily Sparticle.com came to our rescue, literally, and have built us an amazing website with blogs, galleries, and social media marketing all included. We are really pleased with their professionalism, support and importantly timing. Since the site going live we've gone international with a debate in Parliament, coverage in National Geographic and talks with international news broadcasting companies. Without the website and Sparticle's support we wouldn't be able to move forwards easily and react to events.”

When we spoke to the team at Sparticle.com they said, “This was a real collaboration and wouldn't have started without the contact from local networking meetings. There are some great businesses in Kent and further afield too. Matt Horwood of Corza.net based in Leeds kindly donated his expertise and time for the graphical design work. He is one of our clients and, during a meeting, we mentioned the LionAid project to him and he was keen to get involved and help out. This project has been a great example of how, with a 'can do' business attitude it's possible to achieve so much in a short amount of time. We're delighted to see LionAid become more successful as a result of the site we provided and importantly that they are having a real impact on saving Lions.”

To find out more about the charity work that LionAid does, visit www.LionAid.org.