Wordpress for Hampshire Primary School
October 10, 2009
Upham Primary School is our local village school which our daughter Tessa attends. We recently offered to develop a website for the school and naturally turned to Wordpress for our content management system. The staff at the school are not very computer literate, so we thought it would be interesting to see how they would cope with the Wordpress UI.
The site makes extensive use of custom category pages to run the “From the Classroom” and “School News” sections. We were particularly excited about the “From the Classroom” section since it presented an opportunity for the students in the school to contribute to the site and use it as a showcase for their work.
Feedback from staff and parents on the design and functionality of the site has been very positive so far. We have dropped in to the school a number of times to check on progress and we’ve been very pleased with how the school has just been able to get on with posting content and updates. It is a testament to the excellent work done on the Wordpress project that the first experience a group of primary teachers have had with a CMS has been so positive.
A special word of thanks to Rob Schlüter and his excellent “Archives by Category” plugin for Wordpress. Our jQuery gallery is delivered via Christophe Beyls’s Slimbox 2.
Lifestyle Management from Splash
October 7, 2009
Recently a good friend of ours, Collen Skinner, decided to branch out on her own. Splash is her new company offering useful time-saving services to individuals struggling to keep on top of their day-to-day schedule.
Colleen approached us to help her come up with a suitable identity. After a few weeks of brain-storming we came up with the the name “Splash” and accompanying strapline “Get your ducks in a row”. We were looking for a name that would help Colleen stand out and give a prospective client some idea of what her company offered.
Once we had the name it was fairly easy to come up with a fun font, colours and layout for her logo. We hope you like it.
Contact Colleen for help with managing a special occasion, general administration, running regular errands or decluttering your office or home.
Just “google” it
June 25, 2007
I love the debate over whether google can be used as a verb. I was given a great reminder of how pervasive the term has become this weekend.
UK spending on TV Adverts
May 21, 2007
If anyone still needs convincing about the importance of online marketing, a report on the BBC News site today bangs another nail into the coffin of traditional media.
Helvetica is 50 today
May 10, 2007
Where would we be without a great font like Helvetica? This classic typeface started life as Neue Haas Grotesk, but thankfully it was renamed in 1960 after the Latin name for Switzerland, Helvetia.
