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Seed Staff using PAAM Event Management Software

The festival and event company Seed Staff is now using Hotbox Studios' PAAM Event Management Software!

Part of Student Seed Ltd - which is the company behind a range of events including the award winning 20,000 capacity music festival Beach Break Live - Seed Staff recruits and manages festival and event staff across the UK including tour managers, sound engineers, production managers, info point and merchandise staff, bar staff, production staff, wristbanders, campsite crew, bar staff, decoration teams, programme sellers, venue managers, stewards and stage managers.

With a unique approach Seed Staff combines event experts and university students studying relevant degree courses. Seed Staff then follows this up with support including extensive training and development.

Using PAAM Seed Staff has streamlined its event recruitment and management process with:

• Fast one-click event staff database searches
• Consolidated messaging
• Online recruitment and deposit handling
• Staff performance tracking
• Easy uploading of event information
• Pre-event grouping of staff roles

Plus much much more!

For more about PAAM please visit www.paamapplication.co.uk.

03 Feb 12

DCSS Web Design and SEO

Hotbox Studios has been working closely with DC Site Services; updating the DCSS website design for the 2012 festival and event season!

We've been working with DCSS to restructure their main navigation - making it simple for both festival and event staff and clients to find what they are looking for on the website. We've updated the website's sub navigation, social networking and added new client facing pages including a webpage talking about DCSS and the company's festival and event history, a webpage discussing the company's festival and event services and a third webpage listing DCSS' impressive festival and event clients!

Additional to the above we've been working to further improve DCSS' already impressive Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) results. We've been amending copy, code, META on all existing pages and adding landing pages including:

• Festival Stewarding Solutions, Event Crews and Staff
• Event Traffic Management, Festival Car Parking Staff
• Festival Security Staff, Event SIA Security Staff
• Event Litter, Festival Cleaning and Waste Management
• Festival Recycling Management Services and Staff
• Work and Jobs at Festivals and Events

Try popping a few of their key terms into Google and see how we've been getting on! DCSS' key terms include:

• Stewarding
• Festival Stewarding
• Event Stewarding
• Event Stewards
• Event Litter
• Festival Waste Management

Find out more about Hotbox Studios' Hampshire based Web Design Services.

For more about DCSS please visit www.dcsiteservices.com.

26 Jan 12

ASA Network Web Design

Hotbox Studios has been working closely with the ASA Network (Air and Sea Association); updating their website for the coming year!

We've been updating the website's design including the addition of new photos form the ASA Network's annual conference. We've added an industry links page and updated numerous sections within the website.

The ASA Network is a strong worldwide network of independent freight forwarders and customs clearance brokers working closely together to provide first class services.

Find out more about Hotbox Studios' Hampshire based Web Design Services.

For more about the Air and Sea Association please visit www.asanetwork.org.

25 Jan 12

Seed Staff Web Design

After working closely with Seed Staff, Hotbox Studios is proud to launch the new Seed Staff website!

Seed Staff is part of the Events and Marketing company Student Seed Ltd. Student Seed Ltd is the company behind a range of events including Beach Break Live, the award winning 20,000 capacity music festival.

Over the past five years Student Seed has managed teams of festival staff, event staff, technical crew, data collection staff, promotional staff and more at numerous UK festivals and events. Alongside this, Student Seed has built affiliations with a host of leading industry partners and academic institutions across the UK.

The Seed Staff website is one of Hotbox Studios new WordPress based websites - offering clients the functionality and design they require at a price tailored to the small and medium business.

Find out more about our Hampshire based Custom WordPress Theme Design.

For more about Seed Staff please visit www.seedstaff.com or take a look at Seed Staff in our web design portfolio.

08 Dec 11

Orange Festival Foods Web Design

After working closely with Orange Festival Foods, Hotbox Studios is proud to launch the new Orange Festival Foods website!

Orange Festival Foods is an energetic, friendly, family-run business, specialising in feeding the staff, volunteers and crew who work at music festivals.

Orange Festival Foods provides catering for staff at festivals across the UK including the Glastonbury Festival, Latitude Festival and Leeds Festival, serving anything from 12,000 to 24,000 meals! Orange Festival Foods offer breakfast, packed lunches, dinner, snacks, hot and cold drinks throughout the day.  All of Orange Festival Foods’ food is hot, tasty and freshly cooked on site, offering excellent value for money.

The new Orange Festival Foods website is one of Hotbox Studios new WordPress based websites – offering clients the functionality and design they require at a price tailored to the small business.

Find out more about our Hampshire based Custom WordPress Theme Design.

For more about Orange Festival Foods please visit www.orangefestivalfood.co.uk.

11 Nov 11

Shirazeh Houshiary Dust Animation

Hotbox Studios' Mark Hatchard has been working closely with the visual artist Shirazeh Houshiary in 2011 producing a new animated film entitled 'Dust'.

First presented at the Lisson Gallery (Bell St, London) between 12th October - 12th November 2011 within visual artist Shirazeh Houshiary’s 2011 'No Boundary Condition' exhibition, 'Dust' is an animation by Shirazeh Houshiary, conceived with the assistance of Mark Hatchard at Hotbox Studios.

Stills from Shirazeh Houshiary's Dust Animation can be found within the Hotbox Studios animation portfolio.

You can find further information about the animation and the press release for the exhibition within the full news article.

Find out more about our Hampshire based 3D Animation Projects.

28 Sep 11

Orange Festival Foods PAAM Event Management Software

The Festival catering company Orange Festival Foods is now using Hotbox Studios' PAAM Event Management Software!

Orange Festival Foods provides catering for staff at festivals across the UK. Using Hotbox’s PAAM Software Orange Festival Foods has simplified their event recruitment and management needs before, during and after each event.

Festival and Event staff and volunteers can now book their shift patterns for the different roles required by the festival while the Orange team oversees the planning.

Orange Festival Foods can now manage it’s applicants and events in a variety of ways, including:

• Simple applicant processing via personal profiles and searches
• Event deposit handling
• Information distribution including documents and emails
• Pre-festival and event shift allocation
• Festival and Event planning including system exports
• Staff and volunteer performance tracking

Plus much much more!

For more about PAAM please visit www.paamapplication.co.uk.

17 Aug 11

Kangacrew Childcare Staff Solutions Web Design

After working closely with Kangacrew Childcare Staff Solutions, Hotbox Studios is proud to launch the new look, staff focused website www.kangacrew.co.uk.

The new website is a complete redesign, providing a clean and user friendly environment and incorporating the design flare our clients have come to expect from Hotbox Studios. The unique 'hand print' navigation is fun for users, whist the contact page maps outlining the 6 Kangacrew branches are practical and detailed.

Kangacrew is an agency that understands the needs of the nursery staff and childcare recruitment sector, working with both candidates and clients for a variety of recruitment needs. Examples for those looking for either temporary or permanent nursery and childcare jobs include: nursery staff, nursery managers, nannies, cooks and care home staff.

Kangacrew's dedicated consultants are experienced in both recruitment and care work; they are proud of their professional and transparent approach to childcare and nursery recruitment and have been successfully supporting the care sector since 2005.

Hotbox Studios has taken the Kangacrew approach to their new website, based on semantic HTML and CSS with a strong SEO focus to help with bringing in the best candidates and clients.

The website brings together Kangacrew, Kangacare, Kangananny and Kangacook under one roof where all of their available positions can be posted and searched for by area, job type and position.

Interested candidates can now use the Kangacrew website to register, view and apply for jobs, upload their CV and access their profile to keep their details up to date.

The new Kangacrew website is already making a big impact with search engines; helping to improve Kangacrew’s online profile. The new Kangacrew website is now receiving more visits, page views, pages per visit, and a much lower bounce rate as well as an increased average time on time on site.

To find out more please visit www.kangacrew.co.uk.

If you would like to talk to Hotbox Studios about your website and how we can help please get in touch.

15 Aug 11

Kangacrew Childcare Staff Solutions using PAAM Recruit!

Kangacrew Childcare Staff Solutions is the first to use the new version of our PAAM software: PAAM Recruit!

Kangacrew is using PAAM Recruit to assist with recruiting a varied array of staff for the nursery and childcare sector.

Kangacrew is an agency that understands the needs of the nursery staff and childcare recruitment sector, working with both candidates and clients for a variety of recruitment needs. Examples for those looking for either permanent or temporary nursery and childcare jobs include: nursery staff, nursery managers, nannies, cooks and care home staff.

Applicants can now apply and manage their Kangacrew PAAM Recruit profile online. The PAAM Recruit system provides applicants the ability to manage their profile as details change and upload their CV. Applicants can then search for jobs based on qualifications required, location, job type and salary, safe in the knowledge that they will be contacted if positions become available.

Kangacrew's own staff can manage their applicants and candidates in a variety of ways, examples include:

• Marking applicants as: Suitable, Interviewed, Accepted, Rejected
• Apply automatic templates for rejected and suitable applicants
• Email advertising of vacancies which can be targeted to appropriate applicants
• Create job templates
• Email responses to candidates
• Search for candidates by name, status, qualification, preferred role...
• Archive old candidates and clients

Plus much much more!

If you'd like to learn more about how PAAM Recruit is helping Kangacrew please contact Hotbox.

01 Aug 11

Maurice Ward Group Software Application

Hotbox Studios has been working closely with the Maurice Ward Group adding new functionality to the software application Hotbox produced for the Maurice Ward Group in the summer of 2011.

The software application Hotbox created aids the Maurice Ward Group by providing an easily searchable and updatable system to hold their delivery, shipping, logistics and customs brokers; allowing the Maurice Ward Group’s staff to work faster and more productively.

The Maurice Ward Group was established in 1968 to provide global freight forwarding, warehousing, logistics and customs clearance services. The Maurice Ward Group’s clients range from Automotive to Aerospace, Retail to Electronics, Art handling to Project cargo.

Included with the new software application is the ability to link out to relevant information such as Wikipedia pages about their client's and supplier's countries and file upload for presentations.

The new software application for the Maurice Ward Group was produced using PHP and MySQL.

For more about the Maurice Ward Group please visit their website www.mauriceward.com.

19 Jul 11