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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Royal Albert Hall Kiosk App
The joint efforts of The Royal Albert hall & 3B Digital to make the public spaces at the venue more interactive, informative and dynamic continue unabated with the design & implementation of a wonderful new Kiosk Interface of the live “What’s On” data.
The joint efforts of The Royal Albert hall & 3B Digital to make the public spaces at the venue more interactive, informative and dynamic continue unabated with the design & implementation of a wonderful new Kiosk Interface of the live “What’s On” data.
The challenge was to take feeds from the existing website’s data, filter and style to present on a “rolling” vertical screen within the Box Office area at the Hall.
The pages are shown on a simple Chromebit plugged into the big screen showing the webpage built with AngularJS, a JSON feed from their website and the excellent Kiosk Chrome App.
We know the result has been well received because while Jack was on-site supervising the installation he was surrounded by fascinated by Hall visitors eager to see what’s coming up!
Motor Sport Magazine new site template & content migration
The "End Game", or at least the beginning of the "End Game" as regards the "digital unification" programme for Motor Sport Magazine has been to migrate the pre-existing content from Wordpress to the new Drupal installation.
The "End Game", or at least the beginning of the "End Game" as regards the "digital unification" programme for Motor Sport Magazine has been to migrate the pre-existing content from Wordpress to the new Drupal installation.
The result has been a truly unified digital presence that now encompasses the entire Motor Sport content offering on one consistent & elegant template, allowing for a uniquely diverting & immersive browsing experience.
Ongoing we'll be looking to bring aspects of their shop and subscription pages within this new design, as well as an active monthly programme of site improvements, but for now the extraordinary wealth of expert content is brilliantly navigable - we're proud of this work!
Royal Albert Hall’s “Peter Blake app”
Back in May we were really delighted to be approached by the Royal Albert Hall (RAH) in relation to a wall mural they’d commissioned from Peter Blake. The mural featured over 400 of the most famous artists to have appeared at the historic venue over the years.
Back in May 2014 we were really delighted to be approached by the Royal Albert Hall in relation to a wall mural they’d commissioned from Peter Blake. The mural featured over 400 of the most famous artists to have appeared at the historic venue over the years.
The Hall provided a perfectly open brief that allowed us to bring both creative and practical disciplines suitably early in the project lifecycle. It’s exactly this level of involvement with clients that allows 3B to shine; we really appreciate it when clients trust us to help them take a “whacky” half-formed idea and mould it, with them, into a solid, deliverable tool that often serves a purpose greater than its original brief.
Essentially, our brief was to deliver an online interface that would work on mobile, kiosk and desktop. The site would be fully responsive and manageable by Hall staff constantly updating and amending the content held on each artist who is featured in the mural.
We had quite a challenging timeline on this project and we really threw ourselves at it, design through to launch, and it’s now delivered through two static kiosks in the Café Bar at the Door 12 entrance of the Royal Albert Hall as well as on mobile devices and computers via http://appearing.royalalberthall.com/.
We’re really delighted with this project; working closely with a terrific client that had realistic expectations and a truly creative flair we were able to produce an essentially simple and elegant interactive interface that will serve as a platform for “gamification" and enhancements going forward.
Motor Sport magazine's Archive resource
The latest feature in the on-going “unification” programme for the Motor Sport magazine website(s) is the restyling of their mammoth archive resource – every issue of the magazine going back to it’s inception in the 1920s lovingly scanned, OCR’d and annotated is now delivered in the fully-responsive and beautiful new template we designed for their Database in August 2015.
The latest feature in the on-going “unification” programme for the Motor Sport magazine website(s) is the restyling of their mammoth archive resource – every issue of the magazine going back to it’s inception in the 1920s lovingly scanned, OCR’d and annotated is now delivered in the fully-responsive and beautiful new template we designed for their Database in August 2015.
Our love for the sport aside was there ever an online resource so immersive as this? We feel very strongly that we’ve delivered one of the great digital time-wasters of recent times… if, that is, you consider being engrossed in this wonderful body of work a waste of time!
This project forms phase 2 of a our strategy to get Motor Sport magazine’s entire online presence onto one unified template… watch this space!
Motor Sport Magazine Database
Every now and then a job comes our way that very quickly becomes a “labour of love” for us. The Motor Sport Magazine database is one such project and we are just delighted with the work and our new client.
Every now and then a job comes our way that very quickly becomes a “labour of love” for us. The Motor Sport Magazine database is one such project and we are just delighted with the work and our new client.
The work involved developing an online interface for an enormous - and growing – database of motor racing results and statistics going back to the very dawn of the sport!
We certainly felt well suited to the task; aside from Alex’s enthusiasm for the sport, our Lead Developer, Jordan Worner, is also a huge fan. Jordan & Alex’s ability to make key decisions regarding usability and data delivery from a fan’s perspective were key to this project’s success.
The site that is now live stands very much as a “work-in-progress” and should be used and considered a Beta version, but the experience is extraordinary; a deeply immersive journey through a wealth of fascinating statistics and dynamic comparative tables — take a look & enjoy!
