Completed Project

In March - City & Guilds CD-ROM

This month we completed our training & market awareness CD-ROM for the new City & Guilds website, which should be sent out at some point in April.

The CD-ROM was developed using Flash and guides the users through key functional elements of the website, with a voice over & animations of the various components of their website.

E-creation will also be developing the packaging for the CD-ROM.

March's 'Digital fact'

Easily updatable websites - with content playing such an important part in how opinions are formed, it is essential to ensure that your websites are designed & built on a 'component' basis. This means that visual assets, menus & text can be used in a variety of ways making the creation of addition pages easier & therefore more cost effective.

For example, the newsletter menu that you clicked on to access this article, is a very short HTML file that is 'pulled' into many pages automatically by code. This means that as we add new newsletters & online marketing elements, we can update one small file, which then propogates itself across many pages of the site - its quick, easy and effect - taking just a little bit of pre-thought when building the site.

Most designers incorporate content management systems into websites allowing clients to update content without technical expertise or to create a better environment for site maintenance & content updates. But 'pulled' pages do not require the same level of coding, time or cost.

Boardforge.co.uk

Boardforge.co.uk is a chilled yet funky site for long-weekend 'learn-to-snowboard' holidays. The site was designed to be 'cool', yet friendly, appealing to high-income, time-poor indivuals who have perhaps gotten the bug from seeing the halfpipe snowboarding event in Olympic coverage or have wanted to learn to snowboard for years but not been willing to commit to a full week holiday in the Alps. Search engine performance is key for this site and to promote high search engine rankings, the site can also be found under 'www.snowboardlessons.co.uk'.