BCU Inspired – Creative Showcase for Graduates launched by SMILE
In 2021, the showcase for Birmingham City University’s creative graduates included a new website designed, built and managed by SMILE.
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Why a creative retainer works better than ad-hoc feature requests
Evolve is our take on the traditional retainer. Evolve subscriptions redefine ongoing working relationships with SMILE, all at a no-brainer price-point.
Introducing Border Control – the solution to your content governance woes
At SMILE, we’ve been designing and building websites for the education sector for over a decade. That decade has taught us a lot. Recent years have seen our experience develop into a suite of education-specific products and plugins. Until now…
Online Events by SMILE, at WPCampus 2020
Join us as we take a look back on SMILE at WPCampus 2020. Watch our talk about online events and how Hijack helped our clients through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supporting our customers with Crisp
Crisp is a messaging platform that we've adopted at SMILE to interact with our clients. Though we're using it primarily for our SMILE support communications at the moment, we're hoping to branch out and explore how it can help us with broader client outreach going forward.
Accessibility Reporting for HE: The Human Touch
Accessibility is a hot topic right now. The deadline for UK public sector institutions to demonstrate a thorough commitment to meeting accessibility regulations is fast approaching.
An overhaul for Newman University
To rebrand the university, replace the hosting infrastructure, CMS and design of the Newman University flagship website, including the design of a course database system as well as overhaul and replace the current intranet system with a bespoke offering from…
Quick and dirty background video
Background video is a useful tool in a web designers toolkit. I’ll show you how quick and easy it is to pull together. You can see it on a whole swathe of websites now — probably (in part) due to technological reasons. It’s easier to code it up and it’s widely supported by browsers.