National Lottery

National Lottery

Flexewebs played a key development and team facilitation role in entire web site interface re-development for United Kingdom's National Lottery portal, the largest National Lottery provider in the world.

Service

Site wide user interface design in order to meet the latest W3C standards and Camelot Group PLC lottery licence promises.

Duration: 5 months
Technologies used: XHTML1.0 Transitional, CSS2.0, JavaScript (JQuery library), PHP, Apache, Subversion and SVN

Requirements

Camelot Group PLC wanted to completely re-develop World's No. 1 National Lottery web site within very tight deadlines. The web site included large number of web pages which needed to be coded to highest W3C standards possible, consistently and semantically.

Challenge

To develop large number of static web pages within a small User Interface development team, without knowing what the overall web site will entail.

To create a solution which can catch all circumstances of user interface patterns and enable CMS teams to create any template of a page on the fly without worrying whether the pages will or will not work with regards to CSS and HTML code.

Create consistent HTML output, which complies with W3C guidelines and enable doing so across a team of people in scalable and simple manner.

Solution

Flexewebs played the key role in enabling creation of new National Lottery web pages through deployment of User Interface team wide version control system using Subversion and SVN clients on a local network.

Flexewebs also deployed a clever PHP framework which improved the user interface code quality by at least 50%, while narrowing down development time by at least 70%, while keeping the overall approach to system development very simple and easy to understand.

Flexewebs also played key role in user interface developer team facilitation, leadership, providing estimates on development times for integration into project planning, liaising with mid-tier developers and communicating issues and solutions with company wide teams of designers, content managers, information architects, testers, developers and business analysts.

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