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  Denise Atkins
  

  10 Jul 2017

  IE News

  IE's annual team away day on the River Wye

  It’s our favourite time of year again! The IE team headed off to the English/Welsh border for our annual away-day, where we picked up our paddles, commandeered some canoes and gave the River Wye what-for.

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  Denise Atkins
  

  4 Jul 2017

  Education

  Building a unified user experience online for the AFTP

  IE Digital designed and built a new website for the AFTP, to support the brand's launch and bring together disparate processes from across several university delivery partners. The website and online application form are backed by a CRM database and ...

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  Nathan Powis
  

  15 Jun 2017

  Technical

  Skelly - our base Drupal Build for website development

  The development team at IE Digital uses “Skelly” – our pre-configured Drupal build – as the basis for every new Drupal website development project. Skelly has over 10 years of Drupal development experience baked in, making web projects for our charit...

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  Ed Wilkinson
  

  19 May 2017

  Charity, Education, Technical

  Designing a digital experience using iteration and prototypes

  Ed Wilkinson, Digital Services Director at IE Digital, discusses the use of prototyping as part of the digital design progress. As an example, we used this method to compress two information-packed A2 printed posters into a usable digital solution fo...

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  Trevor Townsend
  

  12 May 2017

  Technical

  Choosing the right Digital Support package for you

  Once your new website or other digital project has gone live, it's only the beginning, not the end. It's wise to invest in some level of ongoing support to help you keep the site running smooth, but the package you need will depend on your internal c...

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  Nick O'Sullivan
  

  9 May 2017

  Charity, Health, Education, Other

  Getting the most out of user experience (UX) design

  IE Digital Consultant Nick O’Sullivan explores why it’s important to consider the user experience of your project stakeholders as well as the eventual users of your website, app or digital product. A Lean approach to UX can reduce waste and improve t...

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  Nathan Powis
  

  4 May 2017

  Technical

  Big Data and NoSQL

  Traditional relational databases have long dominated web development, but NoSQL is increasingly becoming a viable alternative option. Their scalability and flexibility in database structure make NoSQL databases an ideal candidate in cloud-based envir...

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  Fran Garcia-Linares
  

  18 Apr 2017

  Technical

  Drupal 8: web developers’ playground

  IE Digital has fully adopted Drupal 8 as our production CMS of choice for our charity, health and education clients, as well as our developers' playground. Fran talks about the process we went through to get the team up to speed, and complete ou...

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  James Marsh
  

  12 Apr 2017

  Charity

  Granting a new website and a new look to Baron Davenport's Charity

  Baron Davenport’s Charity unveiled its new look website recently, which makes applying for grants easier for deserving charities and individuals.

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  Joëlle Symons
  

  5 Apr 2017

  Technical

  Five of the best flat-file CMS solutions

  While Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla are the undisputed champions of the content management system (CMS) universe, simpler, flat-file CMSs like Grav and Pico also have their place for simpler websites. Front-end developer Joëlle had a look at the advan...

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