Repurposing WordPress for live chat
Hijack 2.0 has changed the way that we approach live chat in the backend of WordPress, find out how we have done this.
Hijack 2.0 – Preparing for hybrid open days
Hijack is back and even better than before. There's all-new game changing features and an updated look and feel. Available from May 17th 2021.
Supporting AUA Members to Continue Developing Professionally
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the term used to describe the learning activities professionals engage in to develop and enhance their abilities.
Going Beyond Dance, Music, Art and Literature with Sampad.org.uk
The all new Sampad Arts website has launched! Sampad’s mission is to connect people with South Asian and British Asian Arts and Heritage, and to play a cutting-edge role in the creative economy.
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…
Experience Your Future, with Coventry University
Coventry University has been running online events throughout the 2020 pandemic. But with digital fatigue setting in, they wanted to take a different approach to applicant visit days. To stand out from their peers, they turned to SMILE.
Hijack Rapid Rollout – Online Open Days for the University of Kent
Hijack helped the University of Kent use their existing content in new ways. It helped them to achieve a huge amount in a compressed timeline - less than a week.
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.
Webinar Roundup: Resources from our Accessibility Webinar
A follow up on our webinar about website accessibility and how it applies to your organisation with SiteImprove and the University of Gloucestershire.
Changing the way we design with evolving software
Over the years, the design team at SMILE have used multiple design programmes in a bid to deliver the highest quality output for our clients. When I began at SMILE in 2017, we briefly used Figma for design work but…
Introducing: The all-new University of Gloucestershire website
The all-new University of Gloucestershire website has launched. This project includes so many things that we've wanted to see in flagship websites. This high-profile development took over a year to realise and saw SMILE work with stakeholders from across the university at all levels.
Working with UEA on their flagship website
We re-designed the University of East Anglia (UEA) website. This was our biggest design project to date including UI/UX design, and the creation of a design system.