websites that work for you
I've recently been working on a very exciting project - building the Drupal front end of http://data.gov.uk/
It's great to be working on another opendata project using Drupal - and again working with really smart people committed to opening up data.
This is big project with real ambition - and I go to meetings where I get to learn stuff :-)
"The Mayor of London Boris Johnson today (7 January) fired the starting
gun on an information revolution in the capital as he announced that
City Hall is to release online, for the first time, huge realms of
previously unavailable data for everyone to see and use free of charge. " see full press release
Earlier this year I was involved in a very satisfying project: the GuyCollection website is an online shop selling boys clothes for a new company.
The project was design led, and my role was to turn flat designs into a Drupal theme while altering the ecommece module to work in the way envisaged by the designer.
I was recently called in to help out with a Drupal powered website that was in the late stages of development.
It's a really well designed corporate website made really easy for the
editors to add information about new projects, partnerships, news and so on. These elements are automatically cross-referenced and appropriate articles highlighted on the home page.
The Ramblers' publish the leading legal reference work on footpath law.
The latest version of this book was accompanied by a microsite within the main website.
In order to allow staff across several offices to collaborate on this project with a smooth workflow; the site was built with the Drupal CMS.
This project lists walks organised by Ramblers' groups nationwide and is kept updated by volunteers who plan, check and lead the walks
The project aim was to make the website open to participation by hundreds of volunteers (without technical expertise) and to publicise activities to potential new members.
An innovative project which saw thousands of people involved in updating a UK map
The whole site is fully bi-lingual (English/Welsh) with a Custom Content Management System enabling all text elements to be easily edited in either language.
The site uses a custom Map interface - this used satellite images at large scale conveying the feel of the green countryside, and detailed walking maps at the small scale.
