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<p>Wordpress is renowned for it's usability and general slickness, we find that it enables users to get going quickly and will do a lot out of the box, adding plugins for extra goodies allows you to create advanced configurations and masses of free themes enable you to create a brilliant and unique and special online presence.</p>

British Naturalists Association

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The BNA are a wonderful organisation, that’s been running for over a century. We migrated their archives from the venerable static website that had served them well for over a decade, to a customised multisite WordPress.

The new website has:

  • A network of 10 “sub-sites” for BNA’s regional branches, each of which have their own design and content, user profiles and logins
  • Events listings and registration
  • Online membership subscriptions and renewal
  • Private area for members enabling access to exclusive archived content and resources
  • Online shop

We worked within BNA’s limited budget to prioritise functionality in order to move some of their key workflow around events and membership online, and worked closely with BNA to skill up their staff on the new system, which we launched in February 2019. Using a free WordPress theme enabled us to display the BNA branding in their new online home without using a dedicated graphic designer, we expect that the next phase will involve unlocking some other WordPress functions to extend the site’s functionality.

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Public Law Project

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We launched Public Law Project's new website in July 2018, it features a custom visual design, resources library and events booking system, on a whizzy Wordpress CMS.

The project involved migrating PLP’s deep archives of online materials in a number of distinct thematic and content categories from a proprietary Content Management System, which also handled their bulk email and CRM. We mapped their content into a new structure and commissioned custom visual designs from wave.coop.

A key part of the project was to redefine the site’s information structure to connect content across different sections of the site using a simple scheme of icons and colours. We guided PLP though several rounds of feedback on the designs, and on the themed site itself, working closely with Wave’s designer, until we reached a pixel-perfect product to their and the client’s satisfaction.

We also helped to extract, clean and re-segment PLP’s important CRM data, working with them to ensure compliance with the new requirements of GDPR in our role as Data Processor on PLP’s behalf.

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APC Annual Report

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We used WordPress with some clever plugins and customisations to create this highly interactive online Annual Report for our friends at Associastion of Progressive Communications. They gave us content and design guidelines, and we came up with a really attractive and accessible document.

The mobile responsive micro-site displays sophisticated presentation of reports on APC’s impact, complex financial data, maps and other information. It represents a total refresh of the stale PDF format of traditional Annual Reports, and demonstrates APC’s technical competency and futurism, while retaining backwards compatibility by enabling PDF downloads and printable versions.

 

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UK Food Group

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We worked with UKFG to re-theme their site. We helped them to select a free theme, and applied customisations to create a unique look that fits UKFG's brand and compares favourably with their peers and competitors.

It's a lovely example of how WordPress's flexibility makes it possible to create custom designs combining UKFG's branding with (free Creative Commons licensed) images and graphic elements in a distinctive and user-friendly visual design.

By working on an existing theme, we were able to produce a site that is mobile responsive at a reasonable cost.

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Play England

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We transferred Play England's online materials from their outdated site into a shiny new wordpress CMS, with a heavily customised theme, that enables them to keep the site updated them selves, and allowed them to review their content in order to re-prioritise their online comms.

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Ugly Mugs Redesign and Maintenance

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We took on maintenance of the brilliant multiple award winning online tool run by the National Ugly Mugs Project for UKNSWP. We redesigned their frontpage with customisable areas that bring users to the important reporting functions, and allow the team to control the highlights on the page and update it with their latest accolades. The site was designed and built for UKNSWP on the popular open source wordpress CMS, which meant that we could pick it up and continue it's development.

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