Archive for 'ournhs'
Our new site for Social Care green paper
Puffbox's latest project in the health sector is Care Support Independence, a WordPress-based website in support of the forthcoming green paper on funding and delivering social care. Sadly though, I can't present it as another victory for WordPress, as it's a rebuild of a site that already ran on WP. The original CareAndSupport website was [...] read on »
Flying the nest
As I've written before, one of the (many) selling points of WordPress is the lack of lock-in. When the time comes for a client to take greater control of a project, or if they simply feel it's time for a change, they aren't stuck with all their content locked in a proprietary CMS. They're free [...] read on »
Live video for Darzi's NHS Review
This afternoon sees the effective conclusion of Lord Darzi's year-long (ish) review of the National Health Service, under the Our NHS Our Future banner. I did a quick reskin of the associated website back in May, and we've gone a few steps further to mark the big finale. Inspired by comments from Tom Steinberg back [...] read on »
'It's getting easier, isn't it?'
There was a sudden chill in the air when I uttered those words in a client meeting this week. We're planning another high-profile WordPress-based website, with 'mashing' of RSS feeds from third-party sites like YouTube and Flickr a prominent ingredient. In practice, that means the site's photo galleries and video streaming have been 'contracted out' [...] read on »
'Our NHS' reskinned
One of my favourite projects over the last year has been Our NHS, Our Future - the website for Lord Darzi's review of the NHS. With the review entering its final stages, we've taken the opportunity to give the site a lick of paint, and reworked the homepage. Reflecting the local focus of the review, [...] read on »
Health minister now blogging, courtesy of Puffbox
Today sees the launch of version 2 of the website I designed and built for Lord Darzi's national review of the NHS. V1 was built in double-quick time during the summer, and for reasons of cost and speed, used the Typepad blogging platform. Over the last month or so, Typepad's limitations have become more and [...] read on »