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María Vogels — visual artist

María Vogels is a visual artist whose work stands out because of its connection with the Earth. She needs a web site where customers, galleries and others that are interested can view her work and learn about its background. In close cooperation with the artist, Qoben created a web site that expresses the natural characteristics of María's work, but includes the latest advances in web technology:

• Great adaption for all screen sizes: from the very small screen sizes of 800×600 pixels upto the huge screens of 2560×2048 pixels, the content is always nicely centred on the screen, but allowing for simple scrolling when necessary. To avoid confusion, the web site uses only the window's scrollbar and no secondary scrollbars inside the window.
• Extreme browser compatibility: tested in all modern browsers: Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8, Firefox 2 and 3, Opera, Chrome, and Safari. It uses modern capabilities of modern browsers, such as the tear offs that are fixed at the top and bottom, but has a top-class graceful fallback for older browsers, such as Internet Explorer 6, that lack many of those features. This mechanism is developed entirely by Qoben.
• Viewing art without distractions: Pages to view art photos are stripped of all secondary information to allow for undistracted viewing. Even the primary information retreats to the background when the user moves the mouse away.
• Latest web technologies: Qoben used the most modern web technologies to give the user the smoothest experience that is currently possible. For example: it uses smooth transitions without the need for plugins and there are no delays when hovering over buttons or links.

Turismo Chinchón

Turismo Chinchón (Chinchón, Spain) is the web portal of the Asociación de Hostelería y la Industría Turística de Chinchón, the Association of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Industry. The portal is dedicated to provide complete tourist information about Chinchón and its surroundings to broad public.

At the moment the site contains information about interesting places, news and tourist activities from the association members: typical shops, bars, restaurants, hotels, etcetera. The association has plans to add more services shortly.

Qoben developed a complete solution in close cooperation with the association. Some interesting points:

• Permanent control: All members can update their own activities any time they want. Each activity has its own page all elements can be changed, such as the title, the text, photos, contact information. This way all information can easily be kept up-to-date for the visitors.
• Languages: The site is available in two languages —English and Spanish— and is designed to add more in the future.
• Email: Every member has its own email address and can change it anytime he wants. He can choose between forwarding to another email account or storing the messages on the server.
• Very secure: Qoben created the most-secure login session mechanics in the industry, using all known mechanisms to counter session hijacking.
• Usability and training: It has been made very easy to manage all this information: news, activities, email. Furthermore, Qoben wrote an illustrative guide and held a training session for all members.

Hotel Rural Casa de la Marquesa

Hotel Rural Casa de la Marquesa (Chinchón, Spain) is a small luxurious hotel aimed at a modern and adventurous public. This client needs a web site that describes the rooms and the services accurately and allows for easy reservation requests.

Jankees Korstanje, co-owner, wrote in September 2008:

An attractive, well-organised, informative and functional web site is one of the most important ingredients for success of a small independent hotel. The design and functionality of a web site are of uttermost importance not only for client acquisition, but especially to streamline the business process. Its success can only be guaranteed by continuous maintenance and the possibility to quickly implement updates.

Over the course of the last two years, Qoben showed that it is capable of providing the services that make a small business succeed. Therefore, the solid design, the thorough maintenance and the short implementation cycles are for me the main reasons to recommend Qoben.

A couple of highlights:

• Design: Qoben based the web design on the existing letter head with the flowers. All pages are balanced and breathe serenity; there are no moving images.
• Multi-language: Since the hotel receives many international clients, the site is available in five languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Dutch.
• Navigation: The site provides simple navigation. From the menu at the left-hand side, one can reach quickly all main pages. Qoben created an interactive floor plan that shows the location of all rooms, the patio and the breakfast room.

HIP Europe

Expert network

HIP Europe (The Netherlands and Germany) has a network of very experienced Research and Development experts. The client needs an advanced web site to manage all experts and provide integrated services to clients and experts.

Rick Wielens, co-owner of HIP Europe, wrote in October 2008:

When we launched HIP Europe back in 2006 we contracted all on-line activities to Qoben: web, email and central server. The web site is our presence on the Internet and a tool to do our daily work. It is used by many people every day: staff, experts and clients. Qoben provides efficient maintenance and updates are implemented quickly, which is crucial when doing business.

Since Qoben offers integrated services, it always provides effective solutions to all our requests, combining various technologies when necessary. As we were learning what the required specifications of the web site should be, we needed a partner who could not only cover technology but also help us to actively work together towards the best solutions. Qoben’s support was essential for us to interactively develop our ideas and translate them into an integral solution.

The main characteristics of HIP Europe's web:

• Profiles: Qoben designed easy forms that each expert uses to manage its own profile information, such as contact information and skills.
• Secure projects: Experts can work on various projects. Using the same login account, experts can access and update the project-related documents with other project members in a secure way.
• Company administration: Qoben developed advanced web tools to administer the experts and projects. For instance, setting up an email address for an expert is as simple as filling out the address on his/her profile form.
• Integrated accounts: Experts, project members and the company staff can access all functions from their own accounts, logging in only once.
• Very secure: Qoben created the most-secure login session mechanics in the industry, using all known mechanisms to counter session hijacking.
• Usability: All forms provide ample help on many fields with clear messages if something is not correctly filled out.

The design is created in close cooperation and following clear indications from the customer.

IFTec GeoEnergía

IFTec GeoEnergía (Madrid, Spain) works in cooperation with their international sister organisations in The Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. The Spanish web site had to resemble the corporate web site to transmit the relation to the public. Parting from that design and the IFTech UK logo Qoben built a complete new quality site with a number of strong points:

• Homogeneous colours: Qoben elected a limited set of colours to transmit consistency, professionalism and calmness. The elected colours are vivid and balanced.
• Page mechanics: The new web site is designed to work with small and large screens, for all navigators and all user settings.
• Quality logo: Qoben redid the logo from scratch and created a perfect version without artifacts for IFTec's web and for high-quality offset printing.
• Dynamic content: The site features sections for news and articles that are easily maintained by IFTec themselves. All content is stored in a data base.