Bristol Web Design - Website Development Agency
Present Day
Forward Slash Media are currently one of the South West's leading Digital Agencies serving a customer base that varies from SME Web Design and Web Development work to Digital Marketing for an international Marine Engineering Firm. We evaluate all potential work from the perspective of potential instead of the more traditional methods of client value and like to take on a challenge!
We employ our team across our 4 offices based in Bristol, Dubai and India and offer 24 hour support for each and every customer irrespective of value or market position.
Dubai from 1996 to 2002
Abu Dhabi and then Dubai from 1996 to 2002 were great years for us and saw us profiting from our vision to be the foremost provider to the UAE market. 1996 was certainly tough as the internet had yet to establish itself across the Middle East, although 1997 onwards was an eventful ride that saw us achieve the following:
- Over 250 client web design and development projects built
- Presenting to the Dubai Royal Family on several concepts
- Working for major international brands including the likes of British Airways, KLM, Gulf Marketing Review, Crowne Plaza and Benson and Hedges
- Implementing a pre-graduate trainee program, allowing us to "give something back"
- Being invited onto the board of First Tuesday ME where we helped setup, run and deliver successful FT events
The atrocities of September the 11th 2001 spelt the end of our head office in Dubai due to the downturn in both the World's and the Middle East's economies. Dubai's reliance on tourism has led to a phenomenal boom, but late 2001 and early 2002 saw a large amount of expatriate tourist based companies leave Dubai and with them went our market.
Whilst we still operate in Dubai to this day, our head office is now in Bristol with a support team in Dubai serving both our Dubai and UK customer base.
We had a great team in Dubai of 15 staff and we wouldn't be where we are today without them ... thank you one and all!
UK Consulting from 1994 to 1996
1994 to 1996 is a long time ago in the world of the internet! HTML 1.0 had only just been agreed, Bill Gates had publicly said the internet would never succeed and Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator didn't even exist.
Despite this, our Solution's Director had the privilege to be involved on projects with both IN.Form design and Matinee Sound and Vision for clients ranging from yell.com to Tesco's and PC Magazine to Williams F1.
The Future?
The saying goes that "the future is an unwritten story" but its nice to have a vision of where you want to be! Here's some of our goals as of February 2008, check back in a couple of years to see how we've done!
- Continue to recruit and employ the UK's top talent in design, development &
project management
- Open 3 further international offices in 2009, 10 and 11 in America, Australia and Tokyo respectively
- Reopen our "ideas lab" allowing the development of groundbreaking projects without the constraints of profitability
- Form a mark of excellence society, allowing customers to easily distinguish between one web company and the next
- Find a way to take caffeine intravenously!