Simon Neaves's portfolio

ActivEngine was originally developed for BBC languages as the ‘Profiling Tool’, but has evolved since this initial delivery. The ActivEngine is a configurable, extensible flash based quiz/game tool that allows editors to set up simple games and quizzes with no bespoke flash development...

In 1986, 900 years after William the Conqueror’s original Domesday Book, the BBC published the Domesday Project. The project was probably the most ambitious attempt ever to capture the essence of life in the United Kingdom. Over a million people contributed to this digital snapshot of the...

BBC Things To Do is an activity finder enabling users to discover local activities offered by the BBC and its  partners. The site contains many hundreds of activities and events which are expected to grow as more partners come on board  . The frontend of BBC Things to do follows the new...

After the massive success of the initial website development project for regency mouldings in 2006 we approached James (company owner) to see if he would like the site brought up to modern standards with a re-development. Delighted with the results from the last project Aerian and Regency Moulding...

Just4Specs is a family run online business offering designer glasses and sunglasses at discount prices.The website created for Just4specs incorporates many features that were specifically requested by the client. These included; a discount system so users could access unique discount codes, an...

We inherited the H2G2 website from its previous iteration, a UGC web 2.0 project inspired by Douglas Adams back in the 1980’s. Unfortunately, since that date, no one had really revisited the site’s framework and branding – a terrible shame when you consider the love and esteem the...

21CC - The BBC's 21st Century Classroom offer creative digital workshops to schools and teachers. 21CC is one of the most rewarding prospects of BBC Learning, giving children the chance to expand their horizons and learn new and fantastic skills. BBC Learning approached us in relation to...

Container Group Buying are a trading company specialising in supplying Gifts, Home Decor and Novelty items to independent and multiple retailers across the UK and Europe.We were commissioned for a site redesign and the incorporation of ecommerce features to allow online purchasing of their...

The BBC's Editorial Guidlines website provides help, information and rules aiding people in the creation of content for the BBC, be that for TV, Radio or Online. We successfully tendered for the BBC's Editorial Guidelines design and build, and despite some quite exceptional issues with the design...

UK Pump Supplies is a business that specialise in the supply of agricultural, horticultural and industry pumps.We were approached by UK Pump Supplies to create an online presence for them to sell agricultural pumps and everything associated with the market. To do this Aerian\'s design team went to...

BBCThree is BBC's new talent and comedy channel, aimed squarely at an ever widening audience who enjoy television that asks questions of them. Is this funny? What do you think? Would you ever? BBCThree represents a major step forward for us in working BBC's most up to date systems. This work...

The Cbeebies website is one of the BBC's most popular sites, entertaining children from across the nation with songs, fun games and make & colour activities. The new web launch represents months of hard work from the talented Cbeebies team, which we were proud to be a part of. The Cbeebies...

The bad boys and girls at Devil's Den stock a wide range of naughty, barely legal and downright rude products for those of you who aren't there who love a bit of a cheeky shock in your postbox We've had a long running association with Devil's Den, and were pleased to be commissioned to recreate...

Textile Forum South West (TFSW) is a contemporary textile hub for the southwest. It is a non-profit making, voluntary organisation to promote and develop textiles in all forms for the educational, cultural and economic benefit of the region. It is a point of exchange for people who love making,...

EasyLiving Furniture supply a fantastic range of furniture to customers across the UK. EasyLiving are one of the UK quickest growing brands and we're very proud to be working in close partnership with them. 2008 was a great year for EasyLiving furniture's website. We created a completely new...

11million.org.uk is the children's commissioner's website, allowing the children of the UK to air their views, fears and concerns to the parliament. We were approached by 11 MILLION to take part in a rebuild of their existing website. The team wanted to massively ramp up the possibility of their...

MDS Technologies provide fantastic business application and hosting services. With a range of partners such as Vodafone, Steljes, Netsweeper and many others, they passionately provide services to a range of international client through mobile and internet means. MDS approached us to expand their...

Holiday Rentals Bath provides services for corporate customers, visitors to Bath, and people looking for self accommodation alike. With fantastic properties, right in the cultural heart of Bath, they aim to provide a genuine luxurious experience while visiting this wonderful city. We were tasked...

Gear 2000 is an online retailer for DJ products. Be it mixers, night club lasers or the latest CD players, Gear 2000 stocks them all. Phil Brookes, the MD of Gear 2000, is literally one of the nicest people we've ever met in the business, and we can't speak highly enough of him. We were...

The BBC has developed an in house template based system, to help speed up the process of designing and developing the layout of their web sites and pages. The decision was made to create a list of all the possibilities for web layouts they would need, and the components that would go within them,...

After months of developing and optimising the existing Easy Living Furniture site (created by another provider), it soon became apparent that it's growth warranted a rebranding / redevelopment exercise. We were more than happy to be chosen to do this. We completely gutted the site, reordered...

In 2007, we took over the maintenance and optimisation of www.sparksite.co.uk. During the next 10 months, the site expanded in popularity and output, and soon outgrew it's previous site by another provider. Wiltshire County Council and Wiltshire College then approached us as a web design and...

7Words life management techniques help you realise your potential; as well as learning how to manage and make the most of your strengths and weaknesses to be successful in all areas of your life. 7Words approached aerian to completely revamp their existing corporate styling and business workings....

About2croak is a new venture that will surely offend even the most open minded of individuals. About2Croak gives users the chance to play in a rather morose game of "celebrity deaths". The rules of the game are simple, you choose a selection of celebrities you think are 'about to croak' and then...

Big is Back is an online retailer of clothes for big and tall men, offering massive savings from high street prices and other online retailers by dealing directly with the warehouses and suppliers. By working directly and having inside contacts, they are able to pass on the savings to their...

The Culture Show is a prime time twice weekly show on BBC Two with Mark Kermode and Lauren Laverne covering a multitude of areas of culture in modern society. The show features guests from a variety of genres such as David Bowie, Germaine Greer and a host of famous names for the film, arts and...

I'm sure we don't need to tell you who Fernando Alonso is... but just in case you don't know he's the world championship winning Formula 1 race driver. shop.fernandoalonso.com offers branded clothing from Fernando Alonso himself, and his replica shirts direct to the customer throughout Europe. We...

Junction18, or j18 as they are known in the business, are one of the premier supplies of homeware, jewellery and accessories in the UK. You may not have heard of them as they mainly deal business to business, but if you look at the branding on many items in the high street, you may well see their...

BBC languages is a massive online repository of language based learning materials. The BBC has created something truly wonderful to help people pick up any popular language, to whatever level they wish. BBC languages has a massive slew of activities, quizes, crosswords,interactive videos, games and...

Quiz supplies is an ecommerce site providing downloadable quiz sets for those who want to run any kind of quiz night. Fun and frolicsome, serious and stressful, Quiz Supplies has got it all. Quiz Supplies approached us after our work for about2croak.com and commissioned us to create an ecommerce...

ColourMuse is a wonderful concept. It helps teach learners of all ages the piano through the use of colour. The creator, critically acclaimed TV score composer, Michael Maxwell Steer found that using colours, and likening them to smarties, he was able to teach students of all ages and...

Bath Holiday Rentals is an luxury accommodation service for people looking for high quality self catering in the heart of Bath. With properties through Bath, at a variety of rates to suit most pockets, Bath Holiday Rentals do a wonderful job of helping people find the holiday home or corporate let...

The brunel broderers are a well established group of textile artists in the southwest of england, and they were looking for a site to showcase their work and events. With a continuously evolving portfolio and a rolling calendar of exhibitions, being able to update the website with the latest...

Haines Angling Direct is a long established business based in Somerset selling quality fishing goods to the public. Haines stock products from all fishing disciplines, and are now able to offer products direct to the customer, at discounted prices, through their new website developed by us. We...

Laguna world offers a variety of income opportunites to the receptive people throughout the world. With a luxurious resort in the Spanish area of Murcia, they are ideally placed to take the world by storm with their unique marketing and networking models and extreme enthuasiasts.Laguna has, more...

Glasses Direct have gone through a massive change in the last few months. Moving from a traditional single purchase system whereby a customer could only buy one pair of glasses, to a fully integrate shopping basket system that would perform optothalmic te ...

Devils Den, as it sounds, is a little bit naughty! Selling a variety of products not found on the high street that push the boundaries of what's acceptable. Bad taste paraphanlia, smoking equipment, adult toys... they sell the lot, and for a good price. Devils Den found there previous web providers...

Regency Mouldings was formed in 1986, and in 2006 they decided to venture into the web with aerian studios. From having no web presence they have now are enjoying a large quantity of sales and traffic from their web shop and marketing from ourselves. The site benefits from interactive 3d views of...

Modern Grooming is a complete free service started up by aerian studios founder Paul Goodenough. Paul summised that men often suffered in silence through thousands of lifes problems, and through this Modern Grooming was born to help guys look and feel better as well as offering advice and reviews...

Inductoheat Europe are a large multinational organisation spanning many countries and sub groups. They approached aerian to create an international web presence that could be viewed by any of the native language speaking countries they operate in. Inductoheat Europe required an intergrated site...