Portfolio
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Phantom of the Opera
Worldwide multi-venue informational and booking portal
The Really Useful Group and agency Dewynters recently launched the new Phantom of the Opera offocial website. The new site features some new stunning photography, information about the musical in all locations worldwide and links to ticket purchasing.
Redkey was hired to enable the interactive elements of the site such as remembering the usre's preferred locations and linking to the appropriate ticket booking sites, as well as designing and streamlining the internal site document and template structure. While we were at it, we also optimised the backend PHP code.
This work was done for agency Dewynters Ltd
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The Independent Business Travel Tool
Interactive weather and currency tool for a major publisher
The Independent is one of UK's largest newspapers, and its online version includes a Business Travel section. To add value for its Business Travel readers, The Independent wanted a little travel tool that lets users do things like looking up the weather forecast for a particular city, or doing a quick currency conversion.
We built this travel tool as a side panel on for the Business Travel section. This tool has the featues mentioned above as well as automatically selecting the currency based on the selected location. This tool connects to online currency exchange rate databases and online live weather data to provide the user with the information required.
This work was done through agency Aquent.
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NBC Universal
Multi-site Drupal project for large entertainment multinational
Redkey was involved in a large and ambitious ongoing project at NBC Universal to build and deploy multiple sites using Drupal. Alongside development agency Silex, we created custom themes and modules for stes such as syfy.co.uk.
Lots of innovation happened in this project to make the NBC Universal sites technology-leading applications of Drupal and Apache Solr. As a result, the client owns a robust platform that allows rapid deployment of any new site with the flexibility of customising each site with its own set of features.
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Nokia Flagship Store Moscow
Microsite with video and image gallery
When Nokia launched its first of many Flagship Stores in Moscow in 2005, it was to be a pioneering multimedia retail experience. To coincide with this, Nokia hired agency Bernard Hodes for its marketing campaign. Redkey was hired to build a microsite so support this campaign. The microsite contains visuals, photos, and a Flash video.
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[adult swim]
Multimedia content and games for TV channel
Adult Swim is a popular television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting. The goal of this site is to deliver video content online and add additional user engagement features like games, commenting and rating.
Working with creative agency Public, Redkey was responsible for the development of this website. The site contains videos and flash games and a large amount of user-side features like commenting, rating and favouriting of videos and games.
The site receives thousands of visits a day and so was built with performance as an essential criteria.
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Horse & Country TV
Videos, events and social networking for lifestyle TV channel
We were the Drupal development partner for this site, which was launched on 18 May 2009. This site was built using Drupal 6, with integration with Apache Solr for search, Limelight for video content delivery (live streaming as well as archive), OpenX for ad serving and Amazon EC2 for cloud hosting.
To guarantee the site's uptime and reliability, monitoring and backup solutions were employed, using Nagios for monitoring, and duplicity for automated, incremental, and encrypted backups onto Amazon S3.
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Global Action Plan
Drupal-based content managed corporate portal for large environmental charity
Global Action Plan is one of the largest charity for sustainability and green living in the UK.
Redkey worked with creative agency Public to build and deliver Global Action Plan's corporate site. Redkey was fully responsible for the Drupal development portion of this project, including building the custom theme, custom modules and admin-side features.
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Aldeburgh Music
Large informational and calendaring site for large music charity in the UK
This is a website for a large music charity in the UK, built using Drupal with extensive theming work to give each section of the site a unique identity yet being part of a larger recognisable brand.
Through this site, Aldeburgh is able to provide up-to-date information for its visitors, list upcoming events and profile upcoming classical music artists.
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Sponsume
We built the UK's first crowdsourced viral funding site
Sponsume.com is a website that allows anyone with an idea to promote it and raise funds for it, through an novel crowdfunding approach. Any registered user can view, comment on, and back any project on the site. Through the sales of vouchers, a project is then able to raise the funds it needs to execute and deliver on the idea.
Redkey designed and built the site using Pressflow Drupal and Apache Solr.
This site was featured on TechCrunch Europe. The site withstood the high traffic spike when the TechCrunch article was published.
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RawStock
Social network, bulletin boards and media sharing
A network of the best film schools in the UK wanted an online social network to connect all of their staff, faculty and students. Spread over two phases, and working for Copious Ltd who designed the frontend, we built the complete social networking infrastructure from the ground up that became RawStock.
Features include video uploads and playback, personal profiles, school profiles, upcoming events listing, bulletins, content tagging, flagging of inappropriate content and admin tools for managing and moderating content.
This work was done for agency Copious Ltd, who also designed the frontend. The project was funded by the UK Film Council and the Lottery fund.
+ RawStock is a closed online community, but a demo site is available. Contact us to view it.
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OneSmallDeed
Microblogging, with AJAX that degrades gracefully
With OneSmallDeed.com, users can post microblogs of the good deeds they have done and be inspired by other users' deeds. Copious Ltd designed and coded the pleasant interface and we integrated this into the backend.
The site features user account creation, microblogging, an RSS feed of the posts, and an admin backend to manage and moderate content.
A slick AJAX interface was built yet all the interactivity degrades gracefully to regular HTML interaction in the absence of Javascript. The frontend has also been coded to meet the highest WAI Accessibility level.
Built with PHP5, CakePHP, Javascript, script.aculo.us, MySQL, XHTML & CSS.
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websongs
Large database with complex multiuser and data relationships
websongs is an online music resource and copyright registration service. Think IMDb for music!
There's a huge number of features on the site: 3 types of user accounts, admin and editors, artist/band profiles, song/master recording data, mp3 and video samples, searching the database, and a large set of admin and editor tools. Extensive use of AJAX was employed to streamline intensive data entry processes.
Built with PHP5, CakePHP, Javascript, mootools, scrtipt.aculo.us, MySQL, XHTML & CSS.
This work was done for agency Copious Ltd, who also designed the frontend.
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STZC.org
Multi-language research tool with automated data collection, analysis and reporting
The Sustainable Tourism zone of the Caribbean is an EU funded research project whose aim is to encourage sustainable tourism practices.
The destination managers (users of the site) of various tourist destinations in the Caribbean complete destination profiles and evaluation questionnaires on the site, and then generate PDF reports automatically. Site administrators are able to edit site content themselves, upload files, create user accounts for each destination and have access to all the destination reports. The site is built to support three languages for all content: English, French and Spanish and the site administrators can translate all content themselves.
Evaluations are based on a large questionnaire set (150 questions, spread over 4 forms, in three different languages). Particular attention was given to making the complex user interface as intuitive as possible. As the budget was tight, any design work was kept to a minimum, making use of Drupal's default templates as much as possible.
Built using Drupal and various custom Drupal modules.
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The Fun Fed
CMS, Ecommerce and a very user friendly frontend
The Fun Fed is a creative and innovative company that designs fun events based around games. They provide regular sessions as well as commissioned corporate events.
Redkey helped The Fun Fed design an online business model and then working with Fun Fed's graphic designer, we built a site that allows them to advertise upcoming sessions, take online bookings and payments, display photos, videos and testimonials and communicate with their users through a blog. The build was carried out by Redkey's offshore team in Malaysia and managed locally in London.
Built with Drupal, jQuery, MySQL, XHTML & CSS.
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Viva
Highly personalised property search engine
Viva is the largest estate agent in Spain, with 30,000+ registered users on its award winning website. Viva had a working site but wanted to push its capabilities further so it commissioned marketing agency The Crocodile to beef it up along with a new major marketing campaign.
Redkey was hired to develop all the user-related features such as user registration, personalised email alerts of new properties, personal property portfolio, subscriptions, recommended property and saves searches. We also built a complete form-builder with an innovative wizard-like interface that allows the user to drag and drop form elements and create a live form in minutes without any HTML coding. As this is a huge site with a large database backend spanning two database systems (MySQL and MS SQL), a lot of work went into database query optimisation to ensure the user gets prompt reponses on each search.
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Rocksteady
Full content managed site, built in 3 days
Rocksteady organises rock climbing trips around the world, but with an ethical approach with a goal of empowering the economy of the local communities at their climbing destinations. Rocksteady needed a website fast so we built them a website, fast.
The result was a site built with Drupal that allowed their staff to create pages using a word-processor-like interface, post blogs (including video and photo content in blog posts), show current weather conditions for each destination page, show Flash slideshows of photos grabbed directly from their Flickr account, post videos plus various other features.
As a bonus, we set up a Twitter account for them and automatically updated it with their blog posts. Google Analytics is then used to track traffic and form submission goals.
And many more...
Halifax Bank of Scotland, Transport for London, GlaxoSmithKline, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, Essex County Council, The NHS, Mazda Europe, workthing.com, Thurrock County Council, Aquent, The Post Office, Bernard Hodes Group / Omnicom, Easyrentacar