IT solutions can work, but they require enormous amount of planning and experienced insight. We got plenty of both.
Flexewebs project managed and lead the development process for Arts Debate portion of Arts Council web site enabling interaction for the most important arts funding body in UK.
Project management, requirements gathering, information architecture and technical development lead for the Arts Debate portion of the Arts Council web site. Flexewebs lead a team of designers and developers as well as liaised with Arts Council team in order to scope out the project and deliver it on time.
Duration: 2 months
IT used: PHP, CSS 2.0, XHTML, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Linux
Standards: W3C Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Arts Council England branding guidelines
Enable two way communication on Arts Council web site for a specific purpose of Arts Debate project, which was to enable Arts Council to provide a direct communication platform to artist and arts enthusiasts who have been or would like to funded by Arts Council.
To scope out, specify and deliver a standards compliant and relevant solution within two month of available project time.
To lead a team of developers, information architect and designers to deliver the project to the requirements and to client's expectation.
To provide immaculate, clear and unambiguous communications interface between developers, client, project managers and senior executives with clear understanding of the project status, developments and overall progress at every stage of the project.
Integrate an off the shelf blogging solution and customise it to needs of the client without documenting any impossible to deliver requirements.
Work to very tight deadlines and deliver under pressure making sure that expectations are met and required funcionality achieved well before go-live time.
A customised Moveable Type blogging solution was used as a back bone to enable two-way interaction on the Arts Debate web site.
Moveable Type was integrated into existing web site design templates which were populated by relevant dynamic information generated by this blog based publishing system.
Site was developed according to well established and detailedly defined wire frames, which were worked out in close association with the client and through careful and well considered collaboration with an experienced Information Architect.
