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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...