Over the last few months we have been working with Cynnal Cymru-Sustain Wales to develop their digital brand experience. Utilising the open source content management system Drupal, we worked with Cynnal Cymru to produce a core set of tools that will allow their online brand to grow overtime, yet remain open and allow for flexibility should they require to change in the future.

Its still very early days in the development and positioning of Cynnal Cymru's online content, but we have good ground to grow from... www.cynnalcymru.com

Earlier this year we helped Eco Design Centre develop an understanding of how they can share their data, convey confident communications about who they are and what they do as an organisation. Concluding with a number of 30 second ads made by the Eco Design Centre team, which was great because it really got the whole team thinking about who they are and what they do as an organisation.

Following on from the strategy project we have been working with the team over the last month or so to design and develop a new website that will allow them flexibility to explain their services, relationships with private, public and educational sectors and give them the tools to publish all that rich data online.

You can visit the website and find out more about Eco Design Centre at www.ecodesigncentre.org

Since January we have been working closely with Cardiff Business School and Cardiff University's Web Services Team to design and implement a content managed website for the school.

Cardiff Business School is ranked second in the United Kingdom for its leading research. With over 150 faculty members, the school educates over 2500 students each year from over 120 countries, so it was imperative that the website was produced to be as flexible as possible, but with simple navigation and a clear design.

Before we began working with the Business School, their exiting website was managed by a select few, through a large number of Dreamweaver templates. Which is great for smaller websites, but with a website of this size it could only be described as madness, giving us a headache just thinking of the complications.

With well over 5,000 pages of content we proposed to simplify the management of content using our old favourite: Drupal (an open source content management). After a comprehensive planning stage we were then able to produce a robust multilingual website that can be updated by multiple members of staff, allowing for the website to updated instantly and securely. The site has slowly launched over the last week and its already receiving great feedback from the school faculty.

Its going to be great to see the website develop overtime as the Business School staff take control. Visit their new website at http://business.cardiff.ac.uk

We have a 10 week GO placement for a front-end website developer to work on the development of a Drupal theme for a large bilingual information resource. The developer will be required to hand-code both CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and XHTML to W3C standards, whilst being efficient and competent to replicate designs already visualised in Photoshop. Knowledge of Photoshop and PHP would be useful but not essential as some training will be provided to aid understanding of the Drupal CMS system. The outcome from the placement will be a fully functioning bilingual information resource that complies to the Disability Discrimination Act and W3C standards. With the candidates role being to support our development team with the project they will gain knowledge of the Drupal open source CMS system whilst working with us.

Essential Requirements :
Studying towards or a Degree in Interactive Design, Digital Design, Graphic Design, HTML, XHTML, CSS

Desired Requirements :
Knowledge of Photoshop and PHP would be useful but not essential. lt is also desirable to have a knowledge of Javascript (Jquery) and of W3C standards.

If you think you fit this description please apply through the Go Wales website here:
http://www.gowales.co.uk/en/Graduate/placements/Details/210420