Jacari
Jacari is a home teaching scheme run by students at Oxford and Oxford Brookes universities.
blahwaffleblah redesigned and rebuilt an existing website to meet web standards and comply with accessibility legislation, while also fundamentally restructuring the site to enhance usability and better promote the charity within and outside the universities.
sIFR technology is used to create an immersive environment and consistent style while remaining completely accessible and backwards compatible.
Castle JCR
Community website for the student body (Junior Common Room) of University College, Durham.
Powered by a very heavily customised version of the Mambo open source CMS, the site features news articles, pages for student teams and societies, general useful information about the College, University, city and region, and an awful lot more.
Interactive features include a Flash-based chatroom, individual profile pages for each student, a popular and active discussion forum, and the Mingometer - a daily rating of College meals.
blahwaffleblah was involved with the site from its conception in 2004, developing custom modules and components for the CMS, and completed a total overhaul of the site in August 2006.
Castle Theatre Company
Castle Theatre Company is the theatre company of University College, Durham, and is known for innovative, outstanding shows and consistently high production values. This site had to represent those values, while promoting the company's productions to an audience of some 16,000 students and others.
The site is built using the Movable Type content management system (CMS) to enable any authorised member of the company to update the site and add new content.
In the lead-up to each Castle Theatre production, blahwaffleblah produces a custom “mini-site” to promote the show, adding a splash page and additional branding to the site, with special features (production photos, videos) on separately branded pages (eg castletheatre.co.uk/shakespeare).
Young Macbeth
When the award-winning Castle Theatre Company took a show to the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe, it was clear that the show's website would have to reflect the incredibly high standard of the company and show.
The five-star rated (British Theatre Guide) Young Macbeth is an edgy, modern retelling of the classic Shakespeare play, and the site aims to present it in exactly this light. Featuring a dark, moody design while still encompassing the Castle Theatre Company branding, the site includes a powerful Flash-powered photo gallery.
Built in a very short period of time and designed to tight criteria from the company, the venue and the Fringe itself, the site received several thousand visitors during the Fringe.
Apprendre
Appendre specialises in arranging tailor-made French language courses for foreign students in France.
blahwaffleblah comprehensively redesigned and restructured Apprendre's existing website to comply with accesibility requirements, implementing useability improvements and optimising the site for search engines.
The site's clean, fresh look encompases a huge amount of information about the company's courses and products, as well as advice and info for students travelling to France.
Total Image
Total Image is the commercial website of image consultant Cindy Rossiter.
blahwaffleblah created the site to match the branding of Color Me Beautiful, the umbrella company, but also to have its own specific identity.
Cropwell Butler Online
Community website for the Nottinghamshire village of Cropwell Butler.
Designed and built over 18 months, Cropwell Butler Online was designed to act as an information hub for the village.
Featuring a village directory, events diary, and photo album - all accessible and updatable by every member of the village - as well as archives of the village newsletter, streaming clips from the village's Millennium Video, and much more.
Currently offline
July 16 2005.com
Developed and maintained on behalf of the Potter's Prophecy network, July 16 2005.com was the network's hub for all information related to the launch of the sixth Harry Potter novel on, surprisingly, July 16 2005. The site was designed, built and launched within days of the novel's release date being announced in December 2004.
The news engine of the site was built using a customised version of Movable Type, giving the ability to generate dynamic RSS feeds and easily (and quickly) add new content. phpBB powered the busy discussion forums, skinned with a custom template, while the image galleries were powered by an integrated Coppermine installation.
Simply put, July 16 2005.com was designed to be lightweight, easy to read and, most importantly, easy to update.
No longer online