London Youth Rowing launches
We’ve been doing a lot of work recently for London Youth Rowing (LYR) – a ground breaking sporting initiative that aims to develop young people through physical activity and make rowing accessible to all. We created a new look for LYR and designed and built their new website. The site is content managed (WordPress) and is also designed to interact with the CRM tool Salesforce.com.
As well as designing their online look, we have also been responsible for other design work – in particular the branding of an LYR initiative called Row East London! This is an initiative aimed at improving the fitness, health and well-being of young people in the ten East London Olympic and Gateway boroughs. The initiative was launched last week on 17th March in the company of Olympic medalists and Kate Hoey MP. The launch took place at The National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships (NJIRC) – which is the largest indoor rowing competition in the world with over 1,900 participants. Photos of the launch event, with the Row East London logo featuring prominently on t-shirts, can be viewed here.
24 March, 2009
Dyslexia Teaching Centre site goes live
This week saw the launch of the new Dyslexia Teaching Centre website. We designed a bright and colourful online presence for this site and built it using WordPress so the DTC staff can update it themselves with the latest news, events and publications surrounding London’s dyslexic community. The project also gave our very own Christian a chance to dust off his camera and produce the imagery for the site. Our thanks go again to our partners over at Zebra Crossing for their help on this project.
29 May, 2008
CIH Housing: building communities…delivering more
This week saw the launch of the CIH Conference and Housing Exhibition site we created for the Chartered Institute of Housing. The event – taking place in Harrogate next June – boasts a strong line-up of speakers, including Rt. Hon. Michael Portillo, Diane Abbott MP, David Smith – Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and leading US Economist David Shepherdson.
The CIH is the professional body for people working in housing across the UK and its conference and exhibition is the UK’s ultimate housing event. With Gordon Brown announcing an £8bn investment in housing in his first spending review, the conference will look at how the sector can deliver the government’s objective of decent and affordable housing for all.
Working closely with our partners at Zebra Crossing, the site was built using WordPress and includes online booking functionality. More exciting functionality will be added to the site as the event draws closer – so watch this space!
19 December, 2007
Thai Woman’s Organisation site goes live
Today saw the launch of the site we created for the Thai Woman’s Organisation (TWO). Set up by a group of Thai housewives 20 years ago, TWO is now an official organisation and registered charity that provides essential help and advice to Thai people coming to live in the UK. With the difficulties associated with living in what to them is a foreign country increasing in complexity – be they linguistic, cultural or legal – the website is sure to offer valuable assistance to the help TWO provides.Although a small project for FoxLand it was a challenging one because most of the website uses a Thai font. It was a test of the simple and intuitive content management system we used, WordPress, and a big test for our designer. I’m glad to say both passed with flying colours.
31 October, 2007
Wordpress is 4 years old: “I’m not a millionaire, and may never be”
Wordpress, a wildly popular open-source blogging and simple content management tool, is 4 years old. Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer, but very much not the owner or only developer, discusses the development of Wordpress and people’s expectations of him being a ‘Web 2.0 trailblazer’.
Wordpress header tags
It’s been a long time coming, but we have finally a way of including proper XHTML header tags in Wordpress (the blog tool du jour that we recommend for some clients). It seems such a simple addition, but it has to be hacked into the admin interface. Take a look at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/72076 for more.