The range of services include:

• Logo & corporate identities
• Marketing & promotional material
• Exhibition stands & display material
• Signage
• Point of sale
• Illustrating & special effects
• Product design
• Interior decor displays

Logo & Corporate identities
The client is advised on the practical extent to which their corporate identity should be implemented.
Comprehensive goals are set to achieve their identity in the market place. We assist with setting corporate standards budgets, item selecting, critical timing paths, copyright, trademark, patent and registration procedures.
Our designers will assist with all items from research & development of the name, logo, stationery to national signage, clothing, building interiors & exteriors, vehicle livery and furniture.

Marketing & promotional material
Product needs research, conceptualizing, target market preferences, and customer profile analysis are carried out prior to starting the full work task procedures.
Design, origination, copy writing, photographic control and directing, specification & budget setting, material handling, prop construction, film image setting, colour proofing and printing are provided.
We produce top quality and innovative financial reports, corporate product and services brochures & manuals, awards & certificates, special customized items, advertising and merchandising material.
Electronic interactive CD ROM media projects are also produced.
Exhibition stands
Our integrated design, management & technical team provide a wide range of exhibition services. These include;
Design, budget setting, costing, structural specifications, detailed technical drawings, fixtures and fittings sourcing & procurement, displays & marketing material, lighting specifications, multimedia, communications, plants, advertising, manufacture management, transporting, erection & installation control and management.
We can design a "throw away" or "Multi-use" structure, small or large, for local, national or international utilization. Mobile, pack-away, lightweight, erection & installation instruction booklets are flexible design & usage criterion deployed.

Signage
Interior or exterior signage can be designed, costed, manufactured & installed. A vast range of sign options from flat sheet, backlit, Flex-face, Pylon, optical, neon, computerized to three dimensional, billboard, directional and vinyl lettering can be designed, using existing systems or custom manufactured.
Maintenance contracts through strategic partners are offered.

Point of sale material
Point of sale material encompassing all applications are designed and produced. Merchandising concepts & aids, posters & banners, mobile & three dimensional, shelf toppers & teasers, competition displays & entry boxes, counter & brochure dispensers, moving or people-active.

Illustrating & special effects
Our artists and designers produce innovative art by hand or computer generated. Wildlife, building structures, products, portrait, environmental, maps, wall murals, vehicle and industrial illustrations.
We can combine traditional illustrations with computer generated illustrations, inter-linking special effects, 3D & fly through illustrations.

Product design
With our technical expertise we are able to design all types of products, from furniture, fittings, special gifts, and commercial & industrial accessories to lights, wall displays, desk top products, specialized & mobile transportation on land or water such as game viewing ferries, promotional trailers, pointers and clothing.

Interior decor displays
We have unique ideas for interior decor displays such as pictures, 3D structures, wall murals, furniture paintings and wall patterns.

Web Design
Gate 7 provides the worlds quickest and the most powerful communication medium of the future, namely Web services, comprising Web site design and engineering. We maintain pace with the rapid advance of multimedia communication technology which means that our clients reap the benefits of having their businesses, products and services on internationally accessible and well configured Web sites.
Our mission is to design world class, functional and cost effective Web sites which are customized to suit client's individual businesses and objectives. We remain at the forefront of this dynamic medium, ensuring that:

• Clients experience the minimum Internet down time,
• Receive comprehensive data information,
• Reliable hosting
• Continuous up dating
• Regular feedback of new technology & industry information and
• are able to provide later add-ons and updates.

Our designers and technicians maintain a leading edge, supported by state-of-the-art technology. They are equipped with Macromedia Flash [Vector animation], ASP [Active server pages], Java, ODBC [Data base connectivity], DHTML, Perl, and CGI.
We provide the following creative solutions in Web design:

• Business Web needs audit, assessments & strategic Web Site Planning
• Gathering of information & internal business needs analysis
• Business customer's information & needs analysis
• Competitor Web site activity investigations & assesments
• Preliminary Web site structure & content design organograms & budget setting
• Investiting industry & customer links opportunities & logistics
• Data base information input & output scoping
• Back-end engineering internal data capture & manipulation design
• Product / business photography, scanning & touching up.
• E-zine, inquiries, business profiles, catalogue, listings, animation, video techniques
• GIS maps, technical drawings, portfolios, CV's & personnel profiles
• Final Web site design & implementation
• On-site advertising planning & implementations
• Web site marketing
• Internet marketing & direct mailing
• E-commerce
• Technology

Technology.
Gate 7 makes use of the latest technology available on the world market through its strate-gic partners. We create cutting-edge products which excel on the Internet both as marketing tools and business tools.

HTML is used to provide backward compatibility for browsers which are still using older software and machines. Style sheets are used to provide a centralised template layout which greatly improves speed while also allowing for a much higher standard of graphic ap-peal.

Linux web servers far outperform Microsoft equivalents and provide for more cost effective up grade paths in the future of the Web site.
Web sites are engineered on a Unix platform using PHP, a very powerful fast server side programming language, used to create active database driven Web sites.

The hardware platforms we engineer are capable of: integrating Web Cams, linking the Web site to cell phone technology (eg, notifying relevant people via SMS to respond in-stantly to enquiries on the Web site), fax technology to fax information and enquiries directly from the Web site, e-commerce integration, integration with existing accounting systems, in-tegration with other existing databases (eg. stock level databases).

SMS Technology
This technology enables relevant persons to be contacted as and when an inquiry is placed on the Web site via SMS (Short Message Service). This allows for quicker turn around time.

WAP Technology
This technology enables direct access to the Internet via WAP enabled cell phones. It also allow for sales representatives to have relevant information available to them even when they are not near an Internet connected PC.

Video
Video clips of various interviews and production lines, factory tours etc. These video clips add an exciting dimension to Web sites.

Video Conferencing
Video Conferencing allows customers to have direct "real time" contact with sales representatives 24 Hours a day - this facility can be arranged.
Engineering

• Engineering of the Front-end [What the public sees]
• Engineering of the Database of the associated Back-end system. [ The system will allow one to manage, access and query the database via the private administration system and to maintain dynamic areas via user name & password.]
• Roll out of the web site into a private viewing area on servers for testing purposes
• Adjustments and modifications to solve any problems
• System compatibility testing on the major browsing platforms
• Logical errors, textual errors and data errors are found and corrected
• Final adjustments
• Video production
• Cinematographers trained in composition story boarding, video production and direcion, will produce the video clips required for a project
  

Web Site Hosting
As we do not offer hosting in-house, we gladly refer our clients to specially selected strategic alliance hosting service providers.