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April 21, 2016

Fair Work Commission

Responsive by design

From initial wire framing to rapid prototyping, design and theming, responsive design was the key to success. With so many different users accessing the site from different devices and locations we had to ensure that the full functionality was available regardless of device or platform. Using best practice coding and in-house expertise, we built a responsive platform that can adapt to suite any scenario.

Data Migration

Over 25,000 pages of existing content. The task at hand included an intensive, automated data migration process of over 25,000 pages of existing content and countless related assets. We also developed custom modules that integrate with the Commission’s in-house enterprise search system, and enabled support for Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) metadata across the board.

Microsite Publishing

FWC requirements included micro-sites; using Drupal, we gave them not only the sites, but a tool to help them grow their platform. The content management system supports building micro sites with their own unique look & feel on-the-fly. We also integrated the website with the commission\’s enterprise level search solution allowing visitors search through myriads of documents & resources.

March 18, 2013

Warringah

Information Architecture & Creative

One of the key features is multisite support – Warringah Council, Warringah Library, Aquatic Centre & Glen Street Theatre all run from the same single backend.

Creatively, we managed to achieve consistent branding across all micro sites yet give them their own unique look & feel. We also added support for desktop, wide desktop, tablets & mobiles (portrait & landscape modes) including support for high density pixel ratios (“retina display”) such as the iPad 3 and the new Macbook Pro.

Workflow Management

The site also features some great workflow automation: auto generated adaptive layout & thumbnails, auto geo coding with support for Google maps, auto generation of list pages with summaries, teasers & pagers, auto generation of navigation, breadcrumb trails and human friendly urls.

In terms of administrative functionality, we added support for complex author-editor-publisher workflow process across different departments so that content can be properly audited and controlled before publication.

Mapping

The council contains many different location types such as beaches, rockpools, sports fields and parks. We used Google Maps as the mapping solution that allows the council staff to enter a human readable address that is auto geo-coded and placed on the “Find My Nearest” map on the website:

Supports for semantic zooming: Markers get automatically clustered based on the zoom level
Clicking on markers brings out relevant content from the CMS
Ability to filter by different categories and layers.

March 17, 2013

Human Rights Commission

Workflow & Agile Development

The site supports workflows such as an editor-publisher process and the ability to schedule content publishing & expiry. One of the advanced features we have developed include the ability to publish entire microsites for different human rights campaigns at the click-of-a-button without any technical know-how on the part of content administrators including support for customising various visual aesthetics such as colours and backgrounds.

Data Migration

The work being completed includes a fairly intensive automated data migration process of over 25,000 pages of existing content and countless related assets. We also developed custom modules that integrate with the commission’s in-house enterprise search system as well as enable support for Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) metadata across the board.

Microsite Publishing

The content management system supports building micro sites with their own unique look & feel on-the-fly. We also integrated the website with the commission’s enterprise level search solution Funnelback allowing visitors search through myriads of documents & resources.

March 16, 2013

NSW Procurement

Workflow Management

The portal was deployed to captures existing procurement contracts, fact sheets, policies and general content including meta data required for search. The CMS was configured for zero redundancy document management and features an editor-publisher workflow for content management integrated with an enterprise search engine that indexes all content & resources.

Security & Identity Management

The infrastructure was setup for high availability and was tested by PureHacking to ensure that it meets government standards on security. We are currently engaged with NSW Procurement for stage 2 of the project to expand the current feature including a secure workspace for government agencies to oversee their procurement and introduce additional workflow management involving multiple user roles and content stages.

Self-help tool

We ran the project in a completely agile manner – the entire project was broken down into sprints of 3 to 5 days where we continuously refined functional components until NSW Procurement was happy with the end product.

March 15, 2013

Access iQ™

The Challenge

Access iQ™ is an initiative of Media Access Australia, Australia’s only independent not-for-profit organisation devoted to increasing access to media and technology for people with disabilities. Their vision for Access iQ™ is “a web without limits” and demonstrate that web accessibility is the hallmark of an inclusive, usable and future-proof website.

Creative & Accessibility

The site underwent accessibility testing throughout the design and development phases. Designs were reviewed for accessibility, the development team were educated on accessibility principles and the result is a website that is cool, adaptive & responsive whilst being accessible. The website also underwent accessibility user testing – user testing with people who have disabilities to ensure that accessibility also delivers maximum usability.

Workflow & E–Commerce

The site features an editor-publisher content management workflow. The site also features eCommerce with a checkout workflow process that’s tightly integrated onto the content manage system.

March 14, 2013

Moffat

Creative & Search

This project involved creating a really snazzy site – extremely high secure & high performance site that works across mobiles, tablets & desktops.
We integrated with enterprise grade Solr search for super-fast searching across products & accessories.

Infrastructure

As the site has different content and product information for different regions across the globe, high performance and availability was a top criterion – at launch, we managed to optimise the site to load under 1 second!

Workflow & Data Migration

The site also supports complex workflows for importing product data across different regions – data migration including writing routines for parsing & extracting Excel data and carrying out data clean-up and integrity check-ups.

March 12, 2013

KORA Organics

Workflow & E–Commerce

Simple editor/publisher workflow for managing content and various beauty products – integrates with Drupal Ubercart for ecommerce functionality.

Blogs & Social Integration

We integrated a WordPress blog into the Drupal content management & e–commerce system so that user experience between the two systems is seamsless. Commenting is handled via Disqus which allows users to login via Facebook, Twitter or Google and post comments. This has become one of Australia’s highest trafficked blogs with over 1.5 million hits per day!!!

Earth-Hour Campaign 2009

Our task for Earth Hour, and our client Miranda, was to create a communications content, and channel strategy that harnessed Miranda’s high media profile, her Kora brand and millions of on-line ‘connections’, that empowered people to participate in a challenge that would extend their engagement with Earth Hour beyond the hour.