Rapid Web News

All of us at Rapid Web are pleased to announce the launch of the new UB40 website this week. The redeveloped web site went live this morning, after months of hard work.

We’ve been working with UB40 over the last year to give them a new website that matched their stature in the music industry, we are very happy to be supporting such a successful British Band. We’ve been lucky enough to see them play live in their home city of Birmingham recently and they put on a superb show, they are such a great act to see live.

The site has gone live in time for UB40’s upcoming European tour, and coincides with the release of “The Best of Labour of Love” album.
The new website utilises Rapid Web’s bespoke e-commerce system and our very own content management system. These systems allow UB40 to control the vast majority of their own site for the first time.

The site has been designed with the fans in mind to fit with UB40’s well publicised political and social beliefs. It includes an improved and upgraded forum, fully searchable discography, tour information, back stage area and competitions to win tickets and merchandise.

We thought long and hard about what to do with this year’s Christmas card. We did the whole Santa thing. We thought about how to use Rudolph to best comedic effect. Then we started thinking about those really boring cards you get at Christmas – You know the one; it comes from your aunt’s wife’s husband’s daughter in law’s tap partner who you once met at that wedding. It’ll have that dreary picture of the nuclear family in front of the fire, sipping Sherry. Ring any bells?

Well, we decided to go one better.

We went with the dreary family shot, but we used ourselves as the models. It’s become a bit of a cult now and we’re getting calls every day asking us what possessed us to create something so bizarre. Well. If you haven’t seen it yet we’ve taken the liberty of adding it here. Click on the thumbnail to get a sneak peak.

Well, it’s been quite a year for us at Rapid HQ. With an office move, an extra few members of staff and an all new brand, we’re geared up for what looks to be our best year yet. That’s mainly down to some fantastic clients and we’ve loved working with all of you!

We’ve catalogued more sites this year than ever before and we’re covering some pretty serious ground with our bespoke online applications. Stay tuned because we’ll be showing some snap shots of our automated stock control system for one of our clients; a system that’s revolutionised their internal accounts, stock control and supply chain. It’s a bit good and we’re itching to show it off.

We’ve also notched up a record number of online sales for one of our best client’s, 8Ball. The only problem is that we keep needing to upgrade their server, as it’s just getting too darned big!

So, have a fantastic Christmas and keep checking back in the new year. There’s lots more to come!