This week saw the launch of our first client redesign, cosmofil.com. cosmofil is a travel business promoting communication in local languages and cultural exchange. Aimed primarily at language learners the site offers a range of hosts who can offer a range of experiences to travellers that they might not get elsewhere. Over the last year cosmofil had tested their idea and wanted to move their business to the next stage, which is where we came in. The first thing we needed to do as part of the project was put cosmofil in control of their site. Basically the old site was a static HTML site which provided no opportunity for the business owner to manage updates. The new site gives the business the ability to edit existing pages, add new ones, as well as to be able to review, amend and publish applications from potential hosts. Technically we achieved this by building a simple CMS in PHP/MySQL which publishes content to a series of XHTML templates.

Over the coming months we’ll be working closely with cosmofil to help them build their business, as well as give them guidance on how and when to manage site developments in line with the businesses growth and its objectives. Find out more about the project.
If you’ve got an up and coming web project and would like an informal chat, feel free to get in touch.

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Welcome Jo

Jo has been working with me since the end of August, primarily on the work we do for AOL. I’m hoping though that we’ll find the time to get her to write some features for the miggle site and for this blog, as well as her own profile page, so watch this space!

Cosmofil

During August we picked up a new client, Cosmofil, a travel business focussing on cultural exchanges. The plan is that we’ll work with Cosmofil to help build their business online. The first step as part of this was to look a site redesign - something which would provide more flexibility and allow us to add to more quickly than their existing static HTML site.

Initially the plan was to build the site in Joomla, but after an extensive review we felt it wasn’t going to offer us the flexibility we needed, even though Joomla has some really great features. Instead, we’ve built it on our own evolving PHP/MySQL based CMS. There’ll be more on this, and on the Cosmofil site, in next month’s update.