Saturday, August 9, 2008

Final Summary

Its almost over...
Its been an interesting road, with many challenges overcome and a lot of new skills picked up along the way. The Real Hot Bitches have been great to work with, they have a crazy style and all the Bitches we met were really cool.

From the start we expected the process to be a learning experience, being a team of graphic designers developing a website was always going to be challenging but it was a lot of fun too.
The key to our brief and to the whole yMedia thing was sustainability and accessibility, originally we started off using the silverstripe cms to create a site that had a userfriendly backend and allowed easy content updating and editing. However this was not to be, with silverstripe not working with the setup the RHBs already had we had an emergency switch to another cms, Wordpress.
Wordpress let us port over most of the code and art we had struggled through and was almost exactly the same as silverstripe in terms of backend capabilities.

The other consideration we had was that the RHBs wanted a new look for their site in addition to the usability overhaul, this was more what we are trained in creating and we liaised at length with the Bitches on what they wanted the new site to look like and be able to do.

In the end it came together and we had a great experience.

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