Another architects site in association with Positive2. We were brought in to deliver a high-performance, content-managed Flash engine which would leave the company future-proof and able to take care of all their admin tasks. A few nice touches came in during the process.

VISIT SITE

The design was provided by Positive2, and was actually based on the existing site, which was already in Flash, but very “old school”, and longhand, meaning expensive updates for them, and a very large filesize for their homepage. They had to contact their web agency every time they wanted to make even the tiniest change, as no data was kept outside the Flash files themselves.

For example, there was a “project locator” with every project they had done as a dot on a wireframe map of London. You could roll over a dot, and the name of the project would appear… if you clicked it, it would launch that project behind the locator window. Whoever did the Flash actually manually placed the little dots and did one new button for each project. Oh dear.

Our solution was not only to update and upgrade to a proper database-driven version of this, but to provide the client with a nice “drag and drop” interface for managing the project locator in the backend system, making it very easy for them to look after the application themselves.

Our secure backend admin system “Backstage”, designed and built in-house - is very comprehensive - they can add, amend or delete entire projects, staff biographies, add RSS-friendly news items / other content and just keep everything running nicely without having to talk to us. It was tailored to their needs, as we do for every client, and they have been very complimentary about how easy it has been to take care of even complex admin tasks such as adding a whole new project with 10 images…

The site performs well and the client is very happy.