RSM International - a truly global presence
RSM had been a valued client of ours since 2013. When in 2015 they began their global roll-out of their new corporate brand, and we were delighted and honoured to be brought into the process right from the very beginning.
RSM had been a valued client of ours since 2013. When in 2015 they began their global roll-out of their new corporate brand we were delighted and honoured to be brought into the process right from the very beginning.
We cannot over-emphasise the importance of involving your digital agency early in these matters; we were able to consult on matters relating most especially to SEO, site management (both central and local), goal conversion and brand consistency early enough that decisions relating to these key items were worked into the global strategy right from the outset.
The decision reached was to launch over 80 sites in one day, all on the Drupal Open Source platform, managed from one central code base so that any template and functionality changes could be rolled-out across all the local sites at once (subject to our stringent testing and deployment processes).
As well as the obvious scale of this project challenges included an aggressive timeline, multiple site languages, maintaining SEO rankings on the new domain structure.
The result is a clean and fast responsive collection of sites that will feature heavily when presenting case studies and portfolio work to new prospects and clients, and a relationship with a client that we value very highly as we move to new phases of deployment and app development.
Going forward we now support over 130 of RSM’s site administrators in multiple time zones around the world.
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The British Antique Dealers' Association
The requirements BADA have of us vary enormously over the years; they host and manage one of the largest and most prestigious annual Fine Arts & Antique Fairs in the UK.
The requirements BADA have of us vary enormously through the year; they host and manage one of the largest and most prestigious annual Fine Arts & Antique Fairs in the UK.
We designed & built their Fair website some years ago and since then have assisted with their entire business processes in terms of ticket management, press release propagation and content marketing.
We wrote their Social Media strategy and assist and action when required to do so… which in the run up to the big March show is a great deal!
We've now built their new Association site (www.bada.org) - a hefty resource of thousands of objects uploaded by hundreds of their member dealers and presented through an intuitive and elegant faceted search interface, and integrated their previous BADA Fair site in too.
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.
The Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers
One of the most exciting consequences of this project was that it directly put our UX Designer Greg Campbell & Creative Director Alex Bremer (ably assisted on occasion by coding input from Jordan Worner, Tom Getgood & Jack Bremer) right back at the “coalface” for the first time in a long while...
3B are renowned for delivering web projects almost exclusively on Open Source platforms – most especially Joomla, Drupal & Wordpress. Every now & then, however, budget & timeline constraints suggest to us that an alternative CMS might be the way to go.
In this case the decision to embrace a 3rd party platform was actually borne of a client’s desire to be contract-free post launch – a requirement that’s difficult to guarantee when ongoing support & maintenance of an Open Source platform such as those mentioned above is highly advised – and this led us to recommend and implement the wonderful SquareSpace CMS.
One of the most exciting consequences of this decision was that it directly put our UX Designer Greg Campbell & Creative Director Alex Bremer (ably assisted on occasion by coding input from Jordan Worner, Tom Getgood & Jack Bremer) right back at the “coalface” for the first time in a long while.
The Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers are a City Livery Company first incorporated in 1623 and received their Royal Charter in 1693 from King William and Queen Mary. Their practices and communication infrastructure were ancient and creaking and despite having an established and up-to-date website they were more than ready and willing to begin their Digital Journey properly with us. Consequently they have been a real delight to work with; the project has been delivered within a month and they’re pleased as punch!
The Squarespace CMS is not suitable for many of the projects we undertake – especially where bespoke functionality & component development is required – but when the desired site is essentially a simple collection of attractive, responsive and easy-to-update pages I’d say that SquareSpace is pretty much faultless. Rudimentary page passwords, ecommerce & multi-media embeds are simple and quick to implement and, importantly, aggressive timelines and tight budgets can be reasonably easily accommodated. We’re going to be releasing a few more of these in the coming weeks…