Ultro On ArkwrightSociety.org.uk

 
We at Ultro were pleased to be approached by Arkwright Society to act as their partner on the development of their charity website www.ArkwrightSociety.org.uk.

About The Organisation

Sir Richard Arkwright was a pioneer of the industrial revolution through his inventions of cotton spinning machinery and manufacture, started at Cromford in Derbshire. His buildings are now part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The Arkwright Society is a registered charity started in 1972 as a living celebration of Sir Richard Arkwright’s advocacy directed towards education, the conservation of heritage and improving Cromford's environment.

Educational activities that promote enjoyable learning opportunities for young people are central to the organisation’s role - making the best use of environmental, industrial and historical aspects of their work. This involve individual and group tours around their sites that have exhibitions, shops, restaurants and varied programme of events.

What We Worked On

Even though the website was already using a CMS, the type of CMS they used still was not “user-friendly” enough. The client still had to hire a guy each and every time he needs to update the content as it still required hard codes, at some point.

And since the site was not engaging and easy to navigate especially on the content side of things - we had to do some necessary overriding tweaks. Also, we have created the front page to be more flexible for the client to easily and freely upload images and content, highlighted in their own unique way.

The project required us to complete: 
- creating new content types and associated templates
- converting and customise the design into a Drupal theme
- creating multiple views to display the content
- providing training to client in the management of the content

We worked hand-in-hand with the client, providing updates and constantly getting more details as to how they want the site to exactly run. In less than a month or so, the updates were deployed for the new converted Drupal website. 

If you have a similar existing website and have the same content issues, we may be able to help you manage your website better. Contact us and let’s discuss about your project.