Newly completed by SeeIT, in conjunction with Ideas Garden, an Intranet application for Leeds University Student Counselling Centre.
I am surprised that more traditional face to face services do not go online. Online counselling is something that I see as easily adapted to the Internet.
As long as you get the basics right (like security, audit trails, client functionality) there are plenty of advantages to this.
The Internet generation is completely comfortable at a keyboard and monitor. Apart from both counsellor and client saving on travel time, it is said that it easier to bare yourself online than it is in person – the . I know I would have a much easier time baring my soul to a PC in the knowledge that there is either complete or partial anonymity for me.
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The Elevator (www.TheElevator.ie) is a satirical website based in Ireland.
Last year we were approached to do a small voting application for them to manage online voting for their Gooseberry awards – celebrating the worst of Irish entertainment. Nothing to it really – just a simple script with a database to handle all the votes. All good clean fun and some beer money as compensation!
What is great is when something like this captures the attention of the media: last years awards were picked up by The Irish Times, The Irish Examiner, The Irish Independent, The Star, The Evening Herald and the Irish Daily Mail! Check out the bottom of the Gooseberry awards page to see the clippings.
However this year the lads have really outdone themselves: yesterday evening none other than RTE’s Network 2 News ran a piece on the awards – have a look at the clip on the Ellie Telly page or click ‘read more’ at the end of this article to see the video clip.
By the way, if you have a similar project/mini application and a limited budget, by all means contact us and make an impassioned plea. If it catches our imagination you’ll get the job done for the price of a few pints or it may even get done Pro bono publico!
Very well done indeed!
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The Dry Cleaning and Laundry Skillsnet provides training and information to their members courtesy of funding from the Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment.
SeeIT and CIC were contracted to provide a web site providing:
- a simple user registration system
- private content for members
- a web site where the administrator can add and update content themselves
- a simple bulletin board/forum for registered users
The main issue here was to design web site that was easy to navigate and clear for non-computer literate users.
At long last – today the new website goes live!
SeeIT.org is built on our own content management system (CMS), using PHP and MySQL along with some excellent Open Source tools. Our CMS is simple, flexible and extensible.
Contact us for more information or to arrange a consultation. For more information, see our blog post ‘A Reluctant Web Designers Journey’.
In conjunction with Concept Information Consulting we have finished the new website for TASCQ (Traders in the Area Supporting the Cultural Quarter).
TASCQ (a.k.a. www.visit-templebar.ie and www.visit-templebar.com) is an information portal for TASCQ members and for tourists. With over 60 member businesses and a comprehensive events guide, it generates quite a lot of traffic and requires frequent updates. With such dynamic content you need a database at the back end or updates become painful. Furthermore the database backed model allows for all sorts of functionality for visitors (such as the ability to search for events) and members (like having their own login and private members area).
SeeIT managed back-end development (database and PHP server-side programming) while CIC managed the project and front-end development (HTML templates and CSS files).
Performance Marketing market!
They wanted a web site that marketed them. SeeIT and CIC developed a database backed dynamic web site that would increase their search engine rankings and allow them to easily update and add new information to their web site.
Typical functions include:
* staff can add or edit content on the site.
* staff can manage downloads for web site visitors.
* the admin user can manage users and groups.
* their clients all have their own login and private page. Staff can add content and file downloads to these private pages.
* all queries and form submissions are logged and can be reported at any time.
* users get email notifications when they have new private content.
* and more…
The nett result is a more informative web site, where content is easier to find and access. The whole look and feel of the web site is managed through one main template and several sub-templates – a new page will inherit the same look and feel of the existing pages.
The old web site was a collection of static pages (numbering in their hundreds) and had outlived its usefulness. Once you have over 10 pages of content on your web site, you should have it backed by a database.
In fact we would argue that you should use a database and some form of CMS immediately – why wait? Within a very short time you will certainly want to add or change some content on your web site and you certainly don’t want to have to pay a web designer to do something so trivial.
Life can be that simple!