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Recent Projects: Wimborne Minster Town Council

Jul 2016

We have provided IT support to our local Town Council here in Wimborne for a number of years. And this month we have relaunched their website too.

The old town council website was clean, tidy and easy to navigate. But updates were a problem. Town council staff and councillors alike need to be able to contribute news and provide updated information to the Wimborne public. However with the old site requests for website changes were funnelled through an individual, who had to code up the changes manually. Nor was the old site mobile-friendly, and the council now gets a third of its traffic through mobile device.

WordPress is perfect for this kind of project. Council staff and councillors themselves are busy people. They need a simple to use content management system, but one that is accessible to several different editors.

So the solution was to convert the existing website to WordPress. We created a brand new entirely bespoke mobile-friendly WordPress theme, which matched the clean lines and simple navigation of the original site. Hundreds of pages and documents needed to come over from the old site. Migrating years of accreted website data is always an interesting exercise.

We also provided training, and help with migrating the many mailboxes used by the council and its committees.

Check out the site at: wimborne.gov.uk

Ever Been Mis-sold?

Jul 2016

Ever been mis-sold insurance for a mortgage or loan? It’s a question that’s meat and drink for one of our current customers.

They’re a Claims Management company who wanted us to develop a new responsive mobile-friendly website with a sophisticated section to capture claimants’ personal details and financial history.

Our customer wanted us to reduce time spent in administration, correcting and resubmitting claims. Claimants were submitting personal and financial histories into the old website with a number of avoidable errors. When you are claiming against the banks for mis-sold products your claim is quickly invalidated if there are mistakes.

Our solution was to implement a postcode lookup service from Ideal Postcodes and an email validation service from BytePlant. These utilities were hooked into Gravity Forms, one of the leading WordPress form plugins. Gravity Forms is great for simple forms but it couldn’t meet all the requirements of this complex project out of the box. We had to add some smart jQuery and CSS to rearrange over a hundred fields into an easy-to-manage interface for the claimant to input his financial history.

We added the Gravity PDF plugin to create the finished claim forms in PDF format at the end of the process. Again, the core plugin is relatively basic and we found we had to heavily customise it to the match the exact specification required by the big banks.

Our customer now has a solution which minimises mistakes and saves hours of administration per claim.

Recent Projects: GJC Groundworks

Jul 2016

GJC Groundworks moved to the Wimborne area earlier this year and the move prompted them to update their online presence. Our updated website for GJC is shown below.

Sam says:

Just wanted to say thank you to you both for your continued help and support. We like our new website very much!

Welcome to the area Sam and colleagues!

Check out the site at: www.gjcgroundworksltd.co.uk