City & Guilds
Website consultancy and workshops, naming exercise, website design and build, web content management system.
Precedent were commissioned by City & Guilds to design and build 'SmartScreen' - a new online web portal aimed specifically at learners and promoters of education to advice and promote a whole range of learning.
We undertook a detailed naming exercise for them along with the development of an intricate but accessible portal-based look and feel. We also undertook the front-end build of the site. Once the designs had been approved we provided City & Guilds with a comprehensive brand guidelines document allowing for future implementation of the brand by internal teams if required.
A primary requirement for the site was that it should remain current and provide relevant and up to date information to the users. We therefore implemented the CAST content management system, a browser based system allowing selected content editors both within and possibly outside of City & Guilds to easily edit and upload content. With the versatility given by CAST it was possible to keep the sector home pages dynamic, pulling in information from other areas of the site and harvesting headlines from a news site, so giving the visitor easy access to the latest information and providing reactive home pages.
The project was completed within an exceptionally tight timescale and was successfully launched, with over 500 pages of content, in September 2002.
