Today we launched a new site for GP Studio working with Chris Poulton and his lovely team. GP Studio are an excellent bunch of designers with expertise in many different areas (interiors, packaging, product and all things creative). We translated their design and interesting concept of a one page web site into reality and I think the results are excellent.
Take a look at the new: www.gpstudio.uk.com
I attended Monday night’s Creative Out evening organised by Robert Loch, of Internet Peeps fame, and it was a thoroughly entertaining night. The format was informal with attendees invited to talk for a minute or two on creative concepting, with socialising and mingling afterwards. There were a variety of people from designers and entrepreneurs to writers and journalists.
I met Jemima Kiss, a journalist for the Guardian New Media, who wrote an excellent breakdown of the night and had kind words to say about My Neighbourhoods on the Guardian blog:
Also present was Danny Bull, creator of myneighbourhoods.co.uk. It’s a fledgling social net that he described as a combination of UpMyStreet, Fish4 and MySpace. The idea is to help people communicate with their neighbours and, though it’s still early days, he said members have already started emailing each other. Two of them have started jogging together. From small seeds.
Find out about future events at the Creative Out web site. I would highly recommend attending if you are based in or around the London area.
We’ve just completed a design refresh for one of our clients, Vertica Risk Management. The site incorporates company information, job search, registration and easy job application. The facelift brings the company inline with brand identity and offline marketing.
I’m happy to say we’ve just launched our first foray into social networking. My Neighbourhoods is a UK-based online community that provides members with an easy way of getting to know their neighbours and people in the area they live, as well as finding out more about a local area and selling online through classifieds listings. The site aims to make both the online and physical community a bit more neighbourly.
The site has launched in open beta (meaning there may be a few small bugs). By launching this way we are hoping our users will drive the development and functionality by telling us what they want for future releases. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any comments or questions.
I recently took part in a 3 month long SharePoint re-brand for a large global resourcing company. The installation is being used worldwide, across many countries and, in addition to SharePoint portal; there are over 60 team sites. We went the whole distance, completely designing and re-branding the entire look and feel, including style sheets, imagery, functionality and templates.
Anyone who has re-branded a SharePoint installation will testify what a difficulty this can be. Microsoft has, once again, ignored important web standards, effective CSS rules (such as inheritance) and even the general principles of templates. Anything other than applying a new theme in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) - changing style sheets and basic imagery, for instance - is a sizeable task.
That said, the project turned out a huge success. The site looks amazing and is going down very well with its users. And what Microsoft lack in good coding and ease of use, they make up for in enhanced out-of-the-box functionality. SharePoint is a powerful (if sometimes daunting) enterprise-level intranet and extranet solution.
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