Solutions developed so far

• Solutions developed for the travel (case study/PDF case study), wedding, event (case study/PDF case study) and fireworks insurance markets.
• white label travel insurance system running 100+ products across 50+ sites.
• web-based call center (40+ people) linked to our white label insurance system, (case study/PDF case study).
• multi-lingual healthcare expatriate insurance site.
• web-based Report Management System delivering real-time sales and commission report to partners.
• online fulfillment with credit card processing and PDF policy document generation.
• connect quote engine systems to aggregators such as confused.com and moneysupermarket.com.
• online medical screening integrated in sales process with real-time scoring (applied to travel insurance).

….There is no doubt to me that you really care about what you’re doing, and this is evident in what you deliver. It’s been a pleasure working with you…

Alison Massey, Head of Direct Business at Goodhealth Worldwide / Aetna Global Benefits
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Some examples of our work

• Travel Insurance sector:
  
  • http://www.debenhamstravelinsurance.com - Travel Insurance for Debenhams
  • http://www.travelplandirectinsurance.com - Travel Plan Direct
  • http://www.primaryinsurance.co.uk - TPS (Insurance Admin Services)
• Event Insurance sector:
  
  • http://eventinsurance.greenbee.com - Event Insurance for Greenbee (A John Lewis company)
• Wedding Insurance sector:
  
  • http://weddinginsurance.greenbee.com - Wedding Insurance for Greenbee (A John Lewis company)
  • http://www.debenhamsweddinginsurance.com - Wedding Insurance for Debenhams
• Healthcare Insurance sector:
  
  • http://www.goodhealthworldwide.com - Expatriate healthcare Insurance for Aetna Global Services / Goodhealth Worldwide
  • http://www.worldwidehealthplan.com - Expatriate healthcare Insurance for American Express

Whilst I was E-Commerce Manager at Acumus, Guillaume developed a web based, integrated call centre and online travel insurance solution. A complex system that not only helped increase onlince sales by several hundred percent but also streamlined back office working.

Karl Norris, E-commerce manager at Acumus Insurance Ltd
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Anyhow, we created this HTML email and decided to - just for fun - use the @font-face style rule. We knew that support in email clients was poor, but we figured that we aught to give it a go. We asked people to send info as to wheteher it worked or not and we created this table detailing the results.

	Outlook Express - 6 (win)	Outlook - 2003 (win)	Outlook - 2007 (win)	Yahoo Mail	Google Mail	Live Mail	Mail (mac)	Evolution (linux)
@font-face support

Note: Only TTF and EOT (IE) were created

As you can see, support for @font-face in html emails is BAAAAADDDDD! Only Mail on Mac supported it.

An additional note: It seems Outlook 2007 (win) doesn’t even fall back on the font stack. It appears as if it sees the @font-face font first in the stack, decides it cannot use it - then drops the font family altogether - ignoring the second font in the stack. To conclude, it reverts to the system font.

And then I came across something somewhat amazing..

The big find: Mobile Mail app works!

I was just browsing on my iPod Touch and I noticed that the email also worked in the Mail app! Woo!

I can also confirm this works on an iPhone

Why is this so exciting?

Mobile Safari (the web browser on an iPhone) only supports SVG fonts with @font-face - but doesn’t support TTF or OTF.

Mobile Maill app does!
I didn’t create an SVG font for this email which means it HAD to use TTF.

So we can add another column to that table…

	Outlook Express - 6 (win)	Outlook - 2003 (win)	Outlook - 2007 (win)	Yahoo Mail	Google Mail	Live Mail	Mail (mac)	Evolution (linux)	Mail App (iphone/iPod Touch)
@font-face support

I’m not quite sure why i’m so excited about this - but I think it’s big news - Mail app is using a different rendering enging than mobile Safari - is it newer or older? Does this mean TTF or OTF supprt is coming to Mobile Safari?
The iphone falls back on Helvetica if no font is defined

What do you think? Leave a comment below.

As you resize your browser window however - he looks less than happy…

It then gets a bit messy…

And then positively shocking…

I think it’s inspired! Well done mailchimp!

This year, instead of sending out christmas cards, we thought we would donate some money to a charity. Yet at the same time, we didn’t want you to feel left out of all the good cheer from inmeres, so we devised a Christmas game!

The game is a simple “simon says” / “memory game” in which you copy a sequece of lights. Every time you copy the sequence correctly, another light is added to the sequence.

When you’ve finished your turn, you can send us your hi-score. For every level you complete correctly we’ll give 10p to charity.

We haven’t as of yet decided on a charity to donate to, so contact us with your suggestions.

These terms supplement our standard terms and conditions available at:
http://www.inmeres.com/services-tandc/

Inmeres Solutions Limited outsource the management of dedicated servers to specialized hosting companies, and has a responsibility to protect their interest as well as each Client and to provide the best services available. The following Terms and Conditions are designed to ensure these obligations are met. All services provided by Inmeres Solutions Limited to the Client are subject to the following terms and conditions.

1.    Website Content
1.1.    All services provided by Inmeres Solutions Limited may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United Kingdom, United States Federal, State or City, or any International laws is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to:
•    Copyrighted material
•    Material we judge to be threatening or obscene
•    Material protected by trade secret and other statute.

1.2.    The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Inmeres Solutions Limited from any claims resulting from the use of the service, which damages the subscriber or any other party.

1.3.    Also prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or present content that may be damaging to Inmeres Solutions Limited servers or any other server on the internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. Examples of unacceptable content or links:
•    Pirated software
•    Pornography
•    Violations of Copyrights
•    Hacker programs or archives
•    Warez sites
•    Hate propaganda.

1.4.    Inmeres Solutions Limited will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

2.    Data Transfer
Web hosting accounts are prohibited from hosting file distribution Websites (including but not limited to music, video and software), adult content orientated Websites, hosting banners, graphics or cgi scripts for other Websites, storing pages, files or data as a repository for other Websites or personal computers, giving away web space under a domain, sub domain or directory.

3.    Web space Usage
Unlimited web space is available for genuine web site content; content must be linked into web pages. Clients are prohibited from using the server as a file/backup repository. Clients are expected to employ good house keeping when maintaining their account.

4.    Server Usage
Should your account use more than 5% of the servers processing power and as a result have a detrimental effect on other Clients we will discuss with you alternative solutions for your hosting requirements.

5.    Acceptable Use Policy
5.1.    The Website and use of the Services may be used for lawful purposes only and the Client may not submit, publish or display any content that breaches any law, statute or regulation. In particular the Client agrees not to:
•    Use the Services or the Website in any way to send unsolicited commercial email or “spam”, or any similar abuse of the Services
•    Send email or any type of electronic message with the intention or result of affecting the performance of any computer facilities
•    Publish, post, distribute or disseminate defamatory, obscene, indecent or other unlawful material or information, or any material or information which infringes any intellectual property rights (for the avoidance of doubt this includes licensed software distributed as Warez), via the Services or on the Website
•    Threaten, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate the rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others
•    Engage in illegal or unlawful activities through the Services or via the Website.
•    Make available or upload files to the Website or to the Services that the Client knows contain a virus, worm, trojan or corrupt data
•    Obtain or attempt to obtain access, through whatever means, to areas of Inmeres Solutions Limited’s or our hosting partners’s network or the Services which are identified as restricted or confidential. This includes leaving your home directory whilst using SSH access to servers.
•    Operate or attempt to operate IRC bots or other permanent server processes.
•    The Client has full responsibility for the content of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, Inmeres Solutions Limited is not obliged to monitor, and will have no liability for, the content of any communications transmitted by virtue of the Services.

5.2.    If the Client fails to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy outlined Inmeres Solutions Limited shall be entitled to withdraw the Services and terminate the Client’s account without notice.

6.    Limited Use
6.1.    Resources are defined as bandwidth, file space, and/or processor utilization.
6.2.    Inmeres Solutions Limited may implement the following policy to its sole discretion: When a Website is found to be monopolising the resources available Inmeres Solutions Limited reserves the right to suspend that site immediately. This policy is only implemented in extreme circumstances and is intended to prevent the misuse of our servers. Clients may be offered an option whereby Inmeres Solutions Limited continues hosting the Website for an additional fee.

7.    Overusage
7.1.    Account usage is checked frequently.
7.2.    All accounts will receive notification when bandwidth usage is nearing or over the account’s limit.
7.3.    Overusage can result in automatic account suspension unless a prior agreement has been reached.
7.4.    Upon suspension please contact Inmeres Solutions Limited to arrange upgrade pricing.
7.5.    Package upgrades are also possible at any time.
7.6.    If no package upgrade is chosen, overusage fees for harddisk space and bandwidth are applicable as per price list at the time and must be paid before the account will be unsuspended. Failure to pay overusage charges will result in immediate suspension and/or termination.
7.7.    We do not have any hard usage limits and will not suspend accounts without warning. If we believe an account is having a negative effect on server performance we will contact the account owner to discuss options.
7.8.    We reserve the right to enact defensive movements such as immediately suspending accounts which cause an extremely detrimental traffic surge.
7.9.    If you believe your Website may be susceptible to very high usage you must contact us to discuss the suitability of our shared hosting environment.

8.    Data Backup
The Client is responsible for undertaking any data back up programs, database, web files or other digital material.

9.    Payment
9.1.    All payments must be in UK Pounds Sterling.
9.2.    Payments must be made by standing order or credit card.
9.3.    Payments must be processed automatically. If we need to contact you to process payments, an additional charge (equivalent to 1/2 of our hourly rate at the time) will be made for payment processing.
9.4.    All charges payable by the Client for the Services shall be due and payable in advance of our service provision.
9.5.    Inmeres Solutions Limited reserves the right to suspend this and other services until any outstanding debt is cleared. Inmeres Solutions Limited will not be responsible for any data lost due to non-payment closure of an account.
9.6.    The Client is responsible for all money owed on the account from the time it was established to the time that the Client sends a written cancellation request.
9.7.    Reinstatement of an account is at Inmeres Solutions Limited’s discretion. Inmeres Solutions Limited reserves the right to charge a reinstatement fee of one hour of our hourly rate at the time per account.

10.    Cancellations and Refunds
10.1.     All fees charged on a prepay basis are non-refundable.

11.    Indemnification
11.1.    The Client agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold Inmeres Solutions Limited harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney’s fees asserted against Inmeres Solutions Limited, its agents, its Clients, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by the Client, its agents, employees or assigns.
11.2.    Client agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Inmeres Solutions Limited against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with Inmeres Solutions Limited’ server; (2) any material supplied by Client infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (3) copyright infringement and (4) any defective products sold to Client from Inmeres Solutions Limited’s server.

12.    Disclaimer
12.1.    Inmeres Solutions Limited will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer.
12.2.    Inmeres Solutions Limited makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide.
12.3.    Inmeres Solutions Limited disclaims any warranty, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, nondeliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by Inmeres Solutions Limited and its employees.
12.4.    Inmeres Solutions Limited reserves the right to revise its policies at any time.

13.    Severability
In the event any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall be unimpaired and the Agreement shall not be void for this reason alone. Such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by a mutually acceptable valid, legal and enforceable provision, which comes closest to the intention of the parties underlying the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision.

1.1.    A copy of these terms and conditions must be signed by all new Clients at the time of submission of work to Inmeres Solutions Limited, indicating agreement to and acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. Alternatively, payment of an advance fee or payment online is an acceptance of our terms and conditions. A copy of these terms and conditions is available via our website.

1.2.    Terms and Conditions relating to hosting account content and usage may be found at www.inmeres.com/hosting-tandc/.

2.    Payments

2.1.    Charges for services to be provided by Inmeres Solutions Limited are defined in the project quotation that the Client receives via e-mail. Quotations are valid for a period of 30 days. Inmeres Solutions Limited reserves the right to alter or decline to provide a quotation after expiry of the 30 days.

2.2.    Unless agreed otherwise with the Client, all services require an advance payment of a minimum of fifty (50) percent of the project quotation total before the work begins. Thirty (30) percent of the project will be due upon completion of the design stage. The remaining twenty (20) percent of the project quotation total will be due upon completion of the work prior to upload to the server or release of materials. Charges for web design work does cover the release of design source files if required by the Client.

2.3.    Staged development will result in deliverables as specified in the schedule supplied. Payment for each stage will be due on delivery. Payment will be tendered within 30 days of our invoice.
2.4.    Invoices will be provided by Inmeres Solutions Limited upon completion of the work for Web Design and any associated services. Invoices are normally sent via email; however, the Client may choose to receive hard copy invoices. Invoices are due upon receipt.

2.5.    Accounts unpaid thirty (30) days after the date of invoice will be considered in default. If the Client in default maintains any information or files on Inmeres Solutions Limited’s Web space, Inmeres Solutions Limited will, at its discretion, remove all such material from its web space. Inmeres Solutions Limited is not responsible for any loss of data incurred due to the removal of the service. Removal of such material does not relieve the Client of the obligation to pay any outstanding charges assessed to the Client’s account. Cheques returned for insufficient funds will be assessed a return charge and the Client’s account will immediately be considered to be in default until full payment is received. Clients with accounts in default agree to pay Inmeres Solutions Limited reasonable expenses, including legal fees and costs for collection by third-party agencies, incurred by Inmeres Solutions Limited in enforcing these Terms and Conditions.

2.6.    Travel expenses for necessary meetings and approved journeys undertaken by Inmeres Solutions Limited staff and associates will be charged to the client at cost when tickets are available (for example, but not limited to: plane, train, tolls) and at 40p/mile for car travel.

3.    Project

3.1.    Client Review. Inmeres Solutions Limited will provide the Client with an opportunity to review the appearance and content of the website during the design phase and once the overall website development is completed. All phases will require a sign-off form to be completed by the Client. Such forms will be deemed to be accepted and approved unless the Client notifies Inmeres Solutions Limited otherwise within ten (10) working days of the date the forms are made available to the Client.

3.2.    Inmeres Solutions Limited will act as the prime contractor for the development and may sub-contract specific portions of the task as required, except that Inmeres Solutions Limited permanent staff will act as Project Managers and primary contact point for all dealings with the client.

3.3.    The duration of the project will be as defined in the schedule supplied. Extensions to this timeframe caused by non-delivery of materials or non-completion of agreed tasks by the client as specified in the schedule of this document may result in additional charges by Inmeres Solutions Limited, such charges to be agreed in writing at the earliest opportunity.

3.4.    If extensions to the agreed timescale become necessary due to the non-delivery by the client of agreed content, assets, sign-offs or other necessary components on or before the deadline dates specified in the schedule supplied, Inmeres Solutions Limited reserve the right to invoice pro-rata for work carried out up to the agreed payment date.
3.5.    Inmeres Solutions Limited and its sub-contractors shall ensure that the services are carried out with reasonable care and skill in accordance with the client’s instructions. In the event of any element of the services provided being unacceptable, and it being shown that this is due to negligence on the part of Inmeres Solutions Limited and its sub-contractors, then our only obligation shall be either to repeat that element of the service at no extra cost, or to refund (or waive) any money paid (or payable) for that element of the service. These warranties specify the entire liability. Whilst Inmeres Solutions Limited will take all necessary steps to ensure that delivered applications are complete and bug free, final testing and approval of the delivered product shall be the responsibility of the client.
3.6.    On release of the website, Inmeres Solutions Limited will undertake second-line technical support of the product for a period of one (1) month; on no account will Inmeres Solutions Limited be involved in direct customer support.

3.7.    Post-Placement Alterations. Inmeres Solutions Limited cannot accept responsibility for any alterations caused by a third party occurring to the Client’s pages once installed. Such alterations include, but are not limited to additions, modifications or deletions.

4.    Licensing

4.1.    It shall be the responsibility of the client to ensure that all data and content assets supplied to Inmeres Solutions Limited are legally permitted for use, and that any restrictions on use or necessary copyright notices are notified in writing to Inmeres Solutions Limited. Inmeres Solutions Limited accept no liability for breach of copyright or other intellectual rights on data included in the finished product.
4.2.    It shall be the responsibility of Inmeres Solutions Limited to ensure that all software and screen design elements used within the developed product are legally permitted for use, and that any restrictions on use or necessary copyright notices or licence requirements are notified in writing to the client.
4.3.    All intellectual property rights associated with any original general artwork, commissioned artwork, illustrations, website design, programming and copy developed under this agreement remain the property of Inmeres Solutions Limited. The client will be granted a royalty free, non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to reproduce, publish and use it, in part or in whole, for subsequent development of the product(s) covered by this agreement.

4.4.    The completed project may include executable code from other sources. Inmeres Solutions Limited will ensure that it has the necessary rights to use such code. In addition, where it is required that this code be distributed to the end-user, then Inmeres Solutions Limited will ensure that it has the necessary rights to grant the licence as described in the previous paragraph.

4.5.    We reserve the right to use any artwork or printing we produce for the purposes of promoting our services unless the Client request otherwise in writing.

4.6.    Unless the Client request otherwise in writing, a link to Inmeres Solutions Limited will appear in either small type or by a small graphic at the bottom of the Client’s website. If a graphic is used, it will be designed to fit in with the overall site design.

5.    Termination

5.1.    This agreement may be terminated at any time by the client, provided such termination is notified in writing. The client will agree to pay within 10 days all amounts due under the terms of the agreement up to the date on which notification is received, with pro-rata payment for dates which fall between scheduled payment stages. On receipt of payment, Inmeres Solutions Limited will deliver to the client all material and software produced to date.
5.2.    This agreement may be terminated at any time by Inmeres Solutions Limited with 30 days written notice. The client will agree to pay within 30 days all amounts due under the terms of the agreement up to the agreed termination date, with pro-rata payment for dates which fall between scheduled payment stages. On receipt of payment, Inmeres Solutions Limited will deliver to the client all material and software produced to date.

6.    Severability

6.1.    In the event any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall be unimpaired and the Agreement shall not be void for this reason alone. Such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by a mutually acceptable valid, legal and enforceable provision, which comes closest to the intention of the parties underlying the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision.

7.    Law and Jurisdiction
7.1.    This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales.

This is how it should have looked:

The solution: The solutions are always the simplest, yet always the hardest to find… Display the list item inline.

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display:inline;
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Apparently this is due to the formatting you would normally do in your text editor. Another fix is to remove all formatting in your markup - but I feel this makes your code difficult to maintain. Better do the fix above.

Please note: This is not the double margin bug in internet explorer 6 - there was no margin/padding on the items.

We have also been nominated for the UniqueCSS site of the month for April 2009. We are up against some other great sites, so we can only hope we come out top. Best of luck to the rest of you!

This recognition testifies to your creativity and ingenuity.

Wish us luck and if you get the chance visit uniquecss.com and give us a vote! unfortunately we came 2nd to Kardo Ayoub, well done, a well deserved win!

We have also been listed on many website galleries. These are galleries showing the best web designs at the time. Most insist that the code is valid and conforms to rules set out for the doctype of the website. This ensures that not only does the design look good but the code behind them is sound as well.

You can see us featured in these galleries:

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• bestcssgallery.com
• cssfreshblend.com
• cssimpress.com
• bmaccess.net
• cssbag.com
• csscookie.com
• csscount.com
• cssglance.com
• cssloggia.com
• browsershots.org
• cssdaddy.com
• NoOneWebDesign.com
• cssshowcases.com
• dark-i.com
• cssmix.nl

Inmeres Solutions Ltd The Old Surgery, Moulsham St, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 0JJ

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