We are often approached to build sophisticated websites. Yet when a top UK creative agency approached us to work with them in building a new website for Telford County Council we were very surprised by the level of smart technology needed for a big media-rich project.
Much of the website is completely bespoke, in fact it’s probably just the page management that is stock. Things like the events calendar, with auto-deletion of expired events, jquery dropline top nav with fade and fade out (and activated / deactivated buttons) – plus the colours of the dropline are controlled from with the CMS. Pretty much everything in the website can be modified from the admin panel. The creative agency is very cool on palette choice so these customisations proved invaluable.
The movie zone lists out all the videos, however rather than duplicating resources we opted to create a system where the video of a page can be used by way of a unique tag. Specifying a tag builds the page using the video file, reskins the entire them for the movie zone, creates a unique URL, and links itself up to its peers and parents (also in the movie zone). Sounds complicated? It is. But is very easy to use now it’s built! We take pride in writing slick code that doesn’t lead to duplicating resources.
The design work was provided by the team from the creative agency – they have all the spotlight for that – it’s a great looking site!
The website has received a lot of praise from around the region, which is great to hear!
View the website now -> www.telfordculturezone.com
