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The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens needed some help to bring it up to date in terms of accessibility compliance and the design and functionality of its content management system (CMS). A little care for a neglected site can yield some great results.  

Key aspects of the brief were to integrate their 'Places to visit' database and establish a members resource section that could grow well into the future. 

The Care Challenge Series 2008 site required a new registration system to support marketing and fundraising requirements for the new season. As the third largest international development charity, CARE had to deliver this site in time and on budget. 

A key part of the process was mapping out the business process of the seasons events and building the website to support this.  This took some teasing out and was a useful lesson for all involved.

Spitalfields City Farm have launched their new look site, which focuses on Animal Sponsorship and activity news. A long gestation took place for the website as the physical farm was being relocated due to the development of the East London tube network. Key to the site was the custom development of the low-tech Animal Sponsorship component.  

Chalmers and Co Building Contractors specialise in sustainable building and required a website to house and show their portfolio of work.

The site was to be simple and clean with a modern fresh approach and simple navigation for accessing an interactive picture gallery. With limited content available the site was kept purposefully 'bare' and focused on the photos of work and ease of navigation.

Chalmers and Co. were founded in Brighton in 1996 by James Chalmers the managing director. Over the last 10 years Chalmers and Co. and have steadily grown and gained a reputation for a ‘can do’ approach to difficult or unusual projects.

Fortunately this web project was straight forward.

Chalmers and company are corporate sponsers of Medicin san Frontier and Plan Afric.