Old Tin Roof

A small project to help Treloar’s under­stand how to make their site more usable and user friendly grew into sev­eral projects com­pleted over 2009.  These included refresh­ing the design and com­pletely rebuild­ing the main Treloar’s site, the design & build of a microsite to help pro­mote their exper­tise & ser­vices in assis­tive tech­nol­ogy, Treloar’s Direct, and also a rich HTML email tem­plate for them to use to pro­mote their fundrais­ing activites.

The design refresh was com­pleted to make the nav­i­ga­tion of the site much easer than the pre­vi­ous ver­sion, and to make the visual style of the con­tent more con­sis­tent site-wide.

Both the main site and the microsite were built on the Sil­ver­Stripe PHP based CMS, which allowed for a lot of con­fig­u­ra­tion and ful­filled the require­ments of Treloar’s, includ­ing mak­ing it easy for the admin staff to update con­tent with ease.

The email tem­plate was built to be easy for the Treloar’s team to send out rich HTML emails to pos­si­ble fundrais­ing sources from their Out­look email.

Respon­si­bil­i­ties

• Design refresh includ­ing revis­it­ing IA & func­tional needs
• Front end coding
• CMS (Sil­ver­Stripe) con­fig­u­ra­tion and development

Tech overview

• Stan­dards com­pli­ant HTML & CSS
• Acces­si­ble to WCAG 1.0 AA
• Pro­gres­sive enhance­ment to enable extra functionality
• PHP CMS con­fig­u­ra­tion & development