Archive for 'wordpress'
Lynne Featherstone making a splash
When we launched the new Lynne Featherstone website back in September, our plan was always to add some new functionality once the campaign finally began (properly). One such feature went live tonight: 'splash pages', managed purely within WordPress. I've developed a new custom page template, which - as you can see - expects to be [...] read on »
Our new site for LibDems' Chris Huhne
With the election now well and truly underway, it's high time I blogged about the latest website Puffbox has built for a high-profile Liberal Democrat - this time it's home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne, as he looks to defend a wafer-thin majority in Eastleigh. We were approached by Huhne's team late last year: they'd seen [...] read on »
Our new Defra site plays nicely with PDFs
In the late March dash to complete jobs before the end of the financial year, not to mention the imminent election declaration, I pushed a couple of websites live without having the time to blog about them. One of these was another little job for Defra: a WordPress-based satellite site for their Science Advisory Council. [...] read on »
Live text commentary in WordPress
I don't usually blog about projects until after they've happened; but I'm going to make an exception for something that's going to happen later today. For just about a year, we've been looking after the website for The Big Care Debate, the government's large-scale consultation on the funding of long-term social care. We've had a [...] read on »
Telegraph calls No10 site 'a technical mess'
Last night, the Telegraph published a piece by their head of audience development, Julian Sambles accusing the Downing Street website of being 'a technical mess'. This damning conclusion was based on the following criticisms: It wasn't in the top search results for a few randomly-selected Budget-related search terms. It doesn't have a 'link canonical' tag [...] read on »
Tories' commentable Budget
Following the apparent success, back in December, of presenting a leaked draft of the government's IT strategy for reader comments, the Conservatives have repeated the trick by laboriously scanning every page of the Budget book, and presenting them on commentable WordPress pages. They aren't asking for email addresses on comments, and aren't posting the comments [...] read on »
SEO as a political campaigning tool
I've mentioned this before, but it still brings a smile to my face. One consequence of the rebuild of Lynne Featherstone MP's website, which we launched last September, has been a marked improvement in Google performance. And it's arguably my greatest personal triumph that if you search Google for 'haringey council' - the top suggested [...] read on »
The great WordPress / MU merge
A subject which keeps coming up in conversation just now is the planned merger of 'normal' WordPress with WordPress MU, the 'multi user' version. There's been both excitement and concern at what it might mean: but the latest report from Jane at WP HQ should be enough to calm anyone's worst fears. It was announced [...] read on »
Networked blogs: our latest science experiment
Over the last couple of months I've been working with Steph Gray and his BIS colleagues to build a modest little family of websites which could have far-reaching consequences. As Steph notes on his own blog, I've long been musing openly about seeing corporate websites as clusters of smaller websites: making a virtue of the [...] read on »
Defra's new WordPress comment platform