SMILE helps educational organisations become more authentic, timely and personalised with a suite of creative services and digital products.
We do website design and branding for all kinds of companies in the education sector.
Schools, colleges, universities we have done it. A multi-disciplinary branding and creative execution agency that solve visual communication problems and implement the solution using the most appropriate media without bias.
Border Control is a WordPress plugin by SMILE which allows you to define and customise a workflow system for the creation and management of content across your organisation.
With a comprehensive and bespoke permissions system, Border Control is designed to mitigate publishing nightmares by letting you define the levels of responsibility in your organisation’s workflow.
We create engaging brand strategies and experiences, delivering them with the highest design standards.
WordPress for Education
HappyPress combines hosting and support arrangements, into one convenient subscription.
Rely on HappyPress to sweat the small stuff so you can do more, with less.
The real power of HappyPress, is its people. We pride ourselves on speaking your language. So when you do need help, we’re just a live chat or support ticket away – and you’ll get an answer in plain english.
ALL PLANS INCLUDE
Instead of worrying about if your website is secure we update every aspect of your website. Now you can focus on what you do best.
As a HappyPress subscriber, you’ll get access to every exclusive plugin from SMILE, and a collection of popular commercial plugins too.
HappyPress complies to major international privacy standards. Origin servers are located in the London Tier-4 data centres that hold ISO/IEC 27001 certifications.
Add a layer of extra security to your website with multi-factor authentication, of utilise your organisations credentials with SAML single-sign-on.
HappyPress is protected with firewalls and DDoS mitigation backed by the Cloudflare Enterprise WAF. Issues are identified proactively and dealt with immediately.
Regular internal security tests and scans and will work with your third parties to conduct vulnerability scans and penetration tests. Test everything in separate staging environments for peace of mind.
We’ll come to you with new and innovative ideas to keep you ahead of the competition. You choose how often.
SMILE themes and plugins are deployed via version control. Automated tests and human review ensure the quality of HappyPress code.
We monitor critical services every 60 seconds, 24x7x365. If something goes wrong, we’ll know about it, before you do. We collect log data to better help us identify issues. For an additional charge, we will monitor key pages of your site and get alerts if something’s up.
Data is backed up multiple times and in the event of data-loss, our procedures restore data in its last-known state – quickly. Enhanced cadence and external backups are available at additional costs.
“Great websites must evolve to stay competitive.”
Introducing: Creative services retainers from SMILE.
The broad skills required to manage a modern website often leave a skills gap in the typical marketing team. And most marketing teams are stretched beyond their capacity.
Evolve is a subscription from SMILE that gives you peace of mind. Evolve subscriptions turn SMILE into an extension of your team, with access experts for a guaranteed number of hours each month.
Evolve subscribers benefit from our award-winning UI/UX design and consultancy, insight, research and analysis, technical planning web development and – all at our lowest ever prices.
Key features of Evolve
Priority access to our team with pre-set days for your work to be undertaken every single month.
Our lowest rate available, regardless of the seniority of the team member working on your Evolve subscription.
Our experts will help you to build a roadmap, and keep you ahead of your peers.
