Southpoint Solutions Ltd was established in West Sussex in 2015 by Managing Director, Robert Williams, and co-owner Vanessa Williams. Robert has over 30 years’ experience in the creative, design, and digital development industries. Vanessa’s background is in design and advertising operational management.

History

From humble beginnings as a photographers’ assistant in the fashion and music industry, working for photographers Nick Knight and Richard Croft, Robert later went on to have his own work published in the legendary Blitz magazine and other publications. In 1997 Robert recognised that the photography industry was changing to a digital environment, so decided to retrain by taking a diploma course in digital photography, web design and desktop publishing. This sparked an interest in web design as a medium for showcasing creativity. This enabled him to secure his first web design job working for a small marketing company in central London.

In 2005 Robert graduated from a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering and Business Information Systems from the University of East London, which helped him to secure employment as a Solution Consultant for various Microsoft Gold Partner Consultancies, where he designed and developed solutions for medium to large enterprises.

In 2015, as a freelance contractor, Robert founded Southpoint Solutions Ltd. where he continues to prove his versatility as a fully rounded developer consultant by incorporating graphic design and photography into his web-based projects. This enables him to provide customers with extra added value to their business communication needs by combining all his creative skills as a web-designer with web development in a one-stop-shop.

Design

Southpoint provides more than just the physical design or appearance of objects or things. For instance, engaging with us on digital projects such as websites and web applications will involve a detailed analysis and design phase where the existing design, if present, is assessed for suitability. Where required we will undertake a new IA (Information Architecture), UX (User Experience), and or UI (User Interface) design. In addition to digital design, we bring our creative thinking to corporate branding and digital design assets for any digital medium.

Develop

From good designs come solid developments. We have created large corporate public-facing websites, extranets and large corporate intranets. Many of which were hosted in high-security environments for defence or financial institutions, where server-side code was prohibited in favour of client-side techniques that required pure JavaScript solutions.

As with our design services, we also bring creativity to developing more than just digital solutions. Corporate and product branding is a process of developing a brand story organically so that it is a good fit for the organisations’ mission statement and values. We have developed corporate brands for large and small companies as well as individuals for use across multi-platform environments including social media.

Create

Coming from a creative background first and foremost, means we can offer additional creative services to bring added value to our customers. We love to get involved in providing photography for any business area such as corporate headshots, premises, products, etc.

In addition, we also have a passion for music and have experience in providing professional DJ services and audio systems for corporate events.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any design, development, or creative requirements you wish to discuss.