2021 has been an interesting year for everyone, and our time off at Christmas has allowed some reflection on this. But it has also been our busiest in terms of workload, and a continuation of our strategy. Moreover, we think we have created some amazing projects, big and small. Some of the projects we have already mentioned in our irregular quarterly updates. Others are not yet live, and in our busiest periods we haven’t had time to focus on our own website – the proverbial builder’s house. Perhaps more than any other year we have been part of many “secret projects” created with other agencies. This is unusual for us but means we cannot shout about perhaps our biggest projects for a while…
Unlike other years we have not done a day-out, which is a real shame. All 9 of us being in the office at the same time is a special treat. And there have been changes to our little family, with Alex joining officially, Agate getting stuck in at the deep end, and Anna becoming a big-cheese UX guru.
The following post is a version of our internal team summing up. We wish you a very happy, safe and prosperous 2022.
SOME SERIOUS NUMBERS
Clients we have worked with
Total projects
Total hours
THE TIMELINE
And here is our year in stats as pulled out from our self created time-tracker Raptor – the highs and lows of project work, with some additional goodies thrown in too. As ever Practically.io’s work is split unequally between huge business applications, which require the dev team to create much bespoke code, and then the simpler, marketing web creations – led by creativity, strategy and web design.
DEVELOPMENT TEAM
– Ben
– Dave
– Ade
– Stu
– George
– Neil
DESIGN TEAM
– Sam
– Alex
– Agate
– Anna
THIS MONTH:
JANUARY
Be Well Glos
JBR Capital rebrand and reboot
Healthily sex test
CMA Catalyst Diary
SHIFT overheating tool
SHIFT Portal 2021 updates
CFTA Reaccreditation update
CGH Flu booking

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
FEBRUARY
Demand exchange
CFTS Shop / Catalogue
Edge Digital
Manzanita
DS Justice

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
MARCH
CGH Case note tracking
Antalis PPC
SECRET Project cobrand update
Even.tl
Shift website
SECRET Project

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
APRIL
Event Safety Planning
GHC Imms booking

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
MAY
Antalis PPC & Substr8
ESP Stripe Integration

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
JUNE
Reskin of Nametags site
SGMinds started
DSJ?
Panara Travel
Sterk Hymer

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
JULY
20th July – Agate starts
Campbell Gray Hotels rebrand
CFTS Stripe integration
Tap & Style
SECRET Project
SECRET Project

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
AUGUST
26th – Annas last day
SECRET Project
SECRET Project Starts – Design & planning
Exam Prepper optimised revision
International Nursing Recruitment
SECRET project

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
SEPTEMBER
17th – Bens BBQ
SECRET Project – build starts
SECRET project
Wellbeing Line
AGA Nanotech design
DS Kroll
SECRET Project stripe integration
GHC Covid consent

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
OCTOBER
SECRET Project
Healthily Menopause
RJM
GCSE Prepper VC / Funding

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
NOVEMBER
MVP of MHH
HopeHouse live
SECRET project
Suttons & Robertsons
Comms Group bar content
The Peace of Wool

Hours worked on various projects
THIS MONTH:
DECEMBER
Upgrade office
Re-Tribe reboot
Elephant Art
WTC portal pages

Hours worked on various projects
SOME SPURIOUS FACTS
Most played song in the office:
You Are The Music In Me: High School Musical 2 Cast
Most visited post on Practically.io:
Ade’s Yii Stream responses
Funniest Slack Post:
“Sam When Stu veers on Standup:
JESUS MARY AND THE WEE DONKEY – CAN WE HURRY UP ALREADY”
by Dave
Launched this year
Some highlights (that we can tell you about).
https://jbrcapital.com/
https://menopause.livehealthily.com/
https://www.campbellgrayhotels.com/
https://practically.io/work/shift/
https://practically.io/work/eventl-event-logging-tool/
https://www.hopehouse.nhs.uk/
https://panaratravel.com/
https://manzanitacapital.com/