BBC awards Foresite learn.gateway development contract
The BBC has awarded Foresite the development contract for learn.gateway, the organisation's training & development intranet site. This work involves an extensive amount of functional development, tying together with new visuals and layout to create a new version of the interactive learning portal. The site will be developed in C#, making extensive use of AJAX and web services.
Foresite becomes approved supplier for the BBC
We’re pleased to announce that Foresite has been awarded the status of approved supplier of website development services to the BBC. The BBC has been long regarded as an exciting on-line innovator in world-class on-line services. We look forward to working with them.
Celebrate with the BHF chosen as 'Site of the Week' by New Media Age magazine
In their latest issue (w/c 24/09/07) New Media Age, a highly respected industry magazine featured the recently launched Celebrate with the BHF website as their 'Site of the Week'. The site was given a great review by NMA and a rating of 8 out of 10.
Celebrate with the BHF website launched
August saw the launch of the Bristish Heart Foundation's Celebrate with the BHF website, designed and built by Foresite. The site allows users that are planning a celebration, such as a wedding, to build their own page, adding their own text and photo inviting friends and family to donate money to the BHF instead of giving them gifts.
The site was built using C#.NET and is managed via the BHF's content management system, Immediacy.
Myspace pages launced
During the first part of 2007, Foresite developed pages within the Social Networking website Myspace for both Office shoes and Offspring, Office's trainer brand. Websites such as Myspace offer new opportunities for organisations to reach out massive audiences. Since their launch, the pages have generated a vast amount of interest from Office's legion of fans.
The pages can be viewed at:
Help a Heart campaign website launched for the BHF
May saw the launch of a new Help a Heart campaign micro site for the British Heart Foundation. The site, designed and developed by Foresite, provides information about the annual campaign run by the BHF. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of the research that is funded by the BHF and to raise £1.5 million. The site also allows members of the public to volunteer and order campaign materials.
New Computer Clubs For Girls (CC4G) launched
October saw the launch of the all new CC4G website. Over the past 5 months, the entire engine for the website has been re-developed by Foresite to provide a scaleable, sustainable and secure platform the CC4G project. The new multi-server system was designed around effectively managing 250,000 active users as well as coping with extreme loading during busy periods of the day where up to 50,000 unique users will access the site during just one hour.
Foresite to build the first National Skills Academy website
Ruth Kelly announced on 27 March the publication of the second round prospectus setting out the Government’s proposals for a network of 12 National Skills Academies by 2008. We are pleased to announce that, in partnership with the Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC), Foresite will be developing the first National Skills Academy website.
National Skills Academies will be employer driven world class centers of excellence delivering the skills required by each major sector of the economy. The website will help employers to actively improve the skills and qualifications of their workforce. The site will also directly link with the systems of an estimated 30 industry-specific training provider partners.
UKAOP website wins prestigious award
In January 2006, the new UKAOP website scooped the prize for "Best Website" at the MemCom Awards for membership organisations. The awards celebrate creativity and effectiveness in member communications, taking into account design and content, ease of use and effectiveness.
The judges praised the AOP site's "clear navigation" and "business-like design" and also singled out the members' area, commenting: "We particularly like the fact that you can see what’s lurking in the members’ area, so you get an idea of whether it’s worth joining!"
They added: "You would hope that this site sets a good example, and you’re not disappointed...with a modest budget compared to many, the site achieves a lot."
Lisa Quinlan Rahman, AOP communications and events manager, said: "We are thrilled to have won the award, which is a fantastic recognition of our focus to deliver maximum value for our members."
She added: "We'd like to thank the members that have provided feedback on the website and contributed to its content and Foresite, our web development consultants since 2003."
The awards were presented on Wednesday 25 January at a celebratory lunch at the Institute of Directors in London.
Foresite awarded LHC contract
The London Housing Consortium (LHC) recently awarded Foresite a contract to re-develop the organisation's main website. The development will start from scratch, building funcitonality and designs to greatly enhance LHC's value to its clients.
LHC has been managing procurement programmes for public sector projects for almost forty years. They set up and manage a supply chain network of building product manufacturers and installers, selected on their ability to offer high quality products and services to high levels of customer service at competitive prices.
Development of new website for SecEd magazine starts
After completing www.internurse.com, we are pleased to announce that Foresite has been awarded the contract to develop the Mark Allen Group corporate website as well as 12 magazine sub-sites for the publisher. This starts with the Secondary Education magazine website 'SecEd'.
New UKAOP site goes live
December saw the launch of the new improved UKAOP (UK Association of Online Publishers) website. The site is built around Foresite's OpenFire Conent Management System (CMS) and was designed by Foresite to match UKAOP's new corporate brand identity. As well as containing a graphical re-design, the project involved re-shaping the sites' information architecture in order to help users to find information more easily in what is a very information-heavy website.
The site was built using the W3Cs accessibility guidelines in order to achieve an AA accessibility standard. Along with making the site more accessible to users, this will also ensure that the site achieves higher search engine rankings and will be faster to download. To view the site and to find out more about UKAOP go to http://www.ukaop.org.uk
The site has been met with a great deal of enthusiasm from many of its users. Bill Murray, Managing Director of group business information strategy at Haymark Publishing said "AOP now has a website which reflects what we stand for as an organisation – original, top quality content delivered in a user-friendly and valuable way".
Foresite to develop supply chain solution for popular high-street chain
A popular high street retail chain has awarded Foresite the contract to develop an internal supply chain solution to allow sales made via mail order or the internet to be fulfilled directly from stores.
The chain, which has over 50 stores nation-wide, makes approximately 75,000 sales through its website each year. Currently a large proportion of the stock to fulfil these orders is held in their stores around the country and this stock has to be recalled back to the central warehouse before being shipped to the customer; a time consuming and expensive process.
The new solution developed by Foresite automatically allocates both internet and mail-order sales to the relevant stores based on complex algorithms. As well as allocating orders, the system also links directly to UPS via XML in order to automatically book collection and generate shipping labels. Each store can log into their own area within the system and manage the sales allocated to them.
Branwell Moffat, Projects Director at Foresite said "This new solution will not only save our client tens of thousands of pounds every year but will also allow them to reduce the time it takes to fulfil an order by a number of days".
Foresite moves to new offices
Owing to recent expansion, Foresite has out-grown its offices in South Wimbledon and has recently moved to new and larger offices in central Wimbledon.
On the 18th of July Foresite moved to their new headquarters in Wycliffe Road, a modern mews complex consisting of 8 seperate office buildings.
This is an exciting move for the company as it will provide Foresite with more space for continued expansion as well as room to create an open and spacious working environment for its team.
We wish to extend an open invitation to all of our clients to visit us in our new premises.
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New e-skills UK site goes live
Today saw the launch of the new and improved e-skills UK website. The website, built and managed using the new version of Foresite's OpenFire Content Management System (CMS), was designed by Foresite to match e-skills' new corporate brand identity. As well as containing a graphical re-design, the project involved re-shaping the sites' information architecture in order to help users to find information more easily in what is a very information-heavy website.
In order to maximise it's accessibility, the site meets level AA of the W3C accessibility initiative guidelines (WAI) and uses fully validated HTML and CSS . The site has been re-designed utilising css to define the actual structure and layout of the pages as well as the text formatting. This has made the site faster to view, accessible to all users and more attractive to search engines. To view the site and to find out more about e-skills UK go to http://www.e-skills.com
March saw the launch of awayhead.org.uk, a new site developed for Merton Borough Council by Foresite. The site, which is to be looked after by young people within the Borough of Merton, is to provide essential resources for looked-after children as well as containing other fun items such as Flash games and online polls. The site was launched at an event held at Wimbledon's new Odeon cinema and was attended by many of the children who will use the site as well as the current Mayor of Merton, Margaret Brierly. The new site can be viewed at http://www.awayahead.org.ukNew SummitSkills site launches
March 2005 saw the launch of the new SummitSkills website, designed by Foresite. The site is fully content managed using Foresite's OpenFire CMS and also benefits from advanced document and article management tools. The new website incorporates the organisation's rebranding and was designed to meet the highest accessibilty standards. Foresite are also developing a CRM solution for SummitSkills and the new website has been designed in such a way to easily integrate with this. The new site can be viewed at http://www.summitskills.org.uk
New APA site goes live
February 2005 saw the launch of the new re-branded APA (Association of Publishing Agencies) website. As well as incorporating APA's new brand, the site is now fully managed by APA using Foresite's Openfire Content Management System. This powerful CMS has a full range of features including a dynamic news manager, a sophistaicated security system and a newsletter manager which will enable APA to stay in contact with their members.
The new site can be viewed at: http://www.apa.co.uk
Foresite sponsers award for APA
Link: http://www.apa.co.uk/cgi-bin/go.pl/awards/details.html?uid=15 Foresite is excited to announce a new partnership with Urchin, the award-winning web analytics company. After evaluating many different solutions from several different companies, we found that Urchin's web statistcs analysis offerings came out on top in several categories. Using Urchin as the webstats analyser for our websites enables our clients to truly understand how their websites are being used on a minute-by-minute basis. It even allows tracking of individual users from search engine to final order number. Urchin is also the preferred choice of our Search Engine Optimisaiton companies, enabling good integration of services.
Article Published in Artificial Life
A dynamical system is a physical setting together with rules for how the setting changes or evolves from one moment of time to the next. One basic goal of the mathematical theory of dynamical systems is to determine or characterise the long-term behaviour of the system.
