Established in 1998, Envoy has worked with a wide range of commercial and not-for-profit clients – designing, creating, managing and marketing websites and email newsletter campaigns. Most of our work comes from client referrals.
‘Our new website has far exceeded anything I thought we might be able to achieve. You have helped us create a website which is attractive, informative and intriguing, and communicates brilliantly the spiritual heart of the Minster around its community, as well as being factual and informative about its history and architectural significance... Many thanks to you from all of us at the Minster.’
The Very Reverend Nicola Sullivan
Dean of Southwell
InsideOut Musician is an online collaboration of professional musicians who offer creative courses for other musicians, along with a regular online Ceilidh which brings people together from around the world.
The website needed to communicate the spirit of the venture, whilst offering easy access to the course listings and a seemless booking experience. This was achieved by integrating Wordpress with event calendars, Woocommerce, Stripe and Zoom.
An annual festival in New York City, celebrating the arts and music, history and heritage of Greenwich Village.
Envoy designed and created this website and provides intensive technical and marketing support for the nine-day festival. The website offers comprehensive listings, booking integration with Eventbrite, and for some events live streaming too.
With the help of a panel of travel experts, and a survey of 2000 men and women, Mills & Boon discovered the top 10 most romantic places in the UK! To celebrate, they commissioned 10 exclusive romance stories, each based at one of those locations.
Mills & Boon commissioned Envoy to create a visually engaging website which would promote the campaign and authors.
‘What a transformation! You have done a superb job and built a site that is truly fit for purpose. Not only is it visually spot-on, but the functionality as I experienced it, is outstanding. There is no ambiguity and navigation is a doddle – user friendliness at its best. This is just what we needed – and more. Many thanks and congratulations for having created an outstanding website of which we can all be justifiably proud.
Chairman, LMP
Envoy worked closely with the graphic designer, Cat Fuller, on the revamp of the London Mozart Players' website.
David Mark’s publisher, Hodder, commissioned Envoy to create this interactive map for the DS McAvoy crime novels set in and around Hull. It uses customised Google maps to get people into the world of his books.
‘The results are fantastic and I am greatly enjoying the envious looks of other novelists keen for one of their own!’
David Mark
‘Wow!! loving it. Moody, interesting, easy on the eye. It’s terrific’
David Mark
As well as promoting the DS McAvoy crime novels, the website offers in-depth articles about his writing and background research. The rich content includes Q&As, interviews, videos, reviews and events listings.
In response to the outcome of the EU Referendum in 2016, the Fawcett Society commissioned Envoy to design and build a new campaign website calling for a more equal future. This responsive website features multiple parallax sections, clear signposting throughout, social media and email newsletter integration.
Envoy worked with Maeve Binchy’s agent to develop a contemporary website for Maeve’s many fans around the world. It includes exclusive biographical materials, interviews, videos, extracts, an interactive gallery of her international book covers and a dedicated audio section.
The generosity of the extra features and the way in which they integrate with the relevant books make this website a particularly rich resource.
‘I love it! It has a lovely clean feel while containing lots of information, and it gives a great sense of who I am, and of the style of my writing.
‘You‘ve understood me and what I want so well.’
Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us
Weidenfeld & Nicolson commissioned a special website for Laura Barnett's début novel which became a number-one Sunday Times bestseller.
Drawing inspiration from the intriguing structure of the novel and the striking book-cover design, this website uses parallax scrolling backgrounds and animation.
The website also offers extracts, videos, Soundcloud playlists, Pinterest location boards, and social media embeds.
This simple animation (see top left) only shows the opening frames. Follow this link to scroll through the page and see the full effect.
Joanne Harris (author of Chocolat) needed a new website that rendered well across different devices and reflected her extensive use of Twitter and Tumblr.
This responsive WordPress website automatically incorporates her social-media activity and can be easily updated by her PA.
Scaleable full-page photographic images have been used throughout the main body of the website to convey Tim’s bold and innovative approach to performance work.
To achieve this, the site is raw-coded using the latest CSS techniques. It is fully responsive and renders effectively on mobile phones, tablets and desktop computers.
Envoy was commissioned to create a web presence to complement the radical new cover artwork created by the advertising agency Fallon to celebrate sixty years of publishing by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
‘These pages . . . are absolutely gorgeous’ Joslyn Tinker, PR Director, Fallon
To mark its 50th anniversary, Gollancz invited readers to vote for their favourite Science Fiction and Fantasy books.
Envoy created the website and voting mechanism. To enhance the marketing impact of the campaign, each voter was instantly sent a customised follow-up email, thanking them for their vote and recommending further reading related to their selected favourite novels. All the pages included social-media sharing functionality.
The ten favourite books were republished in a collectable retro-look edition.
‘Madeleine is a joy to work with and has the great knack of being able to take what are sometimes imprecise concepts and make sense of them. She has a particular feel for the requirements of groups such as authors, artists, and it would appear choral societies!
Brad Poulson, BDCS
An online gallery of exclusive images created to promote New Europe by Michael Palin.
The gallery is generated, without flash or javascript, using an unordered list of photographs and cascading style sheets (CSS). This has the advantage that the photo caption text is visible to search engines and it enhances the gallery's accessibility for all web-users.
By working closely with each client, Envoy provides bespoke websites that are accessible, intuitive to use, relevant to the visitors’ needs and optimised for search engines.
To view more websites designed by Envoy, visit the clients page.
Envoy also undertakes commissions for competition and landing pages, promotional graphics and email newsletters, as well as customising WordPress.
