A new responsive site for St Christopher's School
We have now delivered a completely secure and up to date responsive website that truly tells the story of this delightful and inclusive south coast school whilst maintaining clear paths to conversion for prospective parents, staff & pupils alike.
As mentioned elsewhere schools can be tricky projects; design and development phases can be extraordinarily lengthy - often exacerbated by key staff holidays and large management committees.
St Christopher’s is no exception to this despite them being a long standing and highly valued client of 3B’s of whom we are very fond. Design iterations, changes and scope creep can become a real issue in any project, and is frankly something of an inevitability when taking on school sites.
Accordingly what started out as a very simply responsive template redesign came, over time, to include an update to the Joomla CMS and content migration from K2 to Joomla core. The project spanned two years and the version of Joomla that was in place at the beginning of the project had become redundant and a security risk.
Fortunately St Christopher's senior management completely understood & accepted the need to revise the scope to accommodate this migration and core update. We have now delivered a completely secure and up to date responsive website that truly tells the story of this delightful and inclusive south coast school whilst maintaining clear paths to conversion for prospective parents, staff & pupils alike.
A new website for the Old Brightonians - the Alumni of the Brighton College
The brief was essentially very simple: maintain current functionality and content and migrate to the latest version of Joomla and a new fully responsive template.
We've been building and maintaining sites for Brighton College's Alumni since 1998. The last few iterations have all been on the wonderful Open Source Joomla platform and this latest version is no exception.
The brief was essentially very simple: maintain current functionality and content and migrate to the latest version of Joomla and a new fully responsive template - a process we're well used to and which normally runs smoothly and without too many issues.
The new site dovetails with their new Alumni database site (on Graduway) and neatly embeds their event booking system, meaning that the Joomla CMS isn't doing too much "heavy lifting" beyond the delivery of what has become a vast and varied body of tagged content across many categories. The challenge on sites like this is ensuring that "busy" doesn't become "cluttered" and I think with this client we've always achieved that, even going so far as to frequently demo the work to prospective and existing clients as a good example of content delivery.
The site - and its many versions over the years - also serves as a great indictment of this wonderful CMS; in many ways Joomla is far less configurable and versatile than Drupal, but when budget, time and client familiarity dictate it remains a popular and well proven weapon in our arsenal.
The Stationers' Company
The Stationers' Company is the City of London Livery Company for the Communications and Content industries – could we have hoped for a more perfect fit with 3B?
The Stationers' Company is the City of London Livery Company for the Communications and Content industries – could we have hoped for a more perfect fit with 3B?
The Stationers are lucky enough to own their own Hall – a major revenue stream for them, as well as a truly beautiful & historic City location from which to be based. This meant that their site had to be far more than just a news source for their membership; it needed to serve as a sales tool for their venue administrators – showcasing this extraordinary place with high quality images and clear conversion paths in a fully responsive and optimised site.
Our solution has delivered a lean and elegant site that will provide The Stationer’s staff with an easy administrator’s Joomla portal from where they can update content relating to both their member base and potential venue hirers.