Four new websites in a week

Website launches are like buses: you wait ages for one and then four come along at once. Over the last 7 days I have launched 2 major websites that have been in the pipeline for some time, and 2 smaller sites.

I have been working with the Young Foundation to develop a website for their UpRising programme – a scheme to develop new leaders in the poorer boroughs of London. The website is powered by Typo3 and there’s plenty more features of the site that will be added in due course. The Young Foundation strikes me as a dynamic and interesting place – it’s been good to work with them.

The latest in my series of sites for Labour politicians is for Eric Illsley, MP for Barnsley Central. The site is designed to showcase Barnsley and Eric’s work, and to be as swift and simple to update as possible. Eric’s staff have been trained how to keep everything up to date. It’s running with Typo3, and there are Google maps, polls, and an Ajax-based photo gallery.

The smaller projects are a WordPress blog site for Alex Brodkin, a Labour candidate in the council by-election in Hale ward in Barnet, North London (the complete project was delivered in 4 days), and a simple Typo3 site for the New Zealand Fabian Society (thanks to meeting their organiser, Jordan Carter, in Brussels in Autumn 2007). Joys of the internet – it’s possible to run projects for organisations on the other side of the world!