How we helped Falmouth University restructure their homepage and navigation
We embarked upon a project of research and recommendation, to focus on homepage and global navigation suggestions.
Redesigning a College Website Using Gutenberg Blocks
Bradford College is the first SMILE project designed and built to take full advantage of WordPress' new Gutenberg Editor. Jon Bates spoke to the key SMILE team members behind this project to find out more.
What happened at SMILE in 2020
2020 has been tough. For many of us, we've suffered family tragedies, and dealt with things that we didn't expect that we'd have to. But it's not all been bad. Reflecting on the strangest of years, we celebrate the successes and look forward to a year of more good than bad.
Helping the University of Sunderland calculate scholarships
As a long time supplier for the University of Sunderland, they approached us with an idea to reinvent the way that prospective students are able to calculator available scholarships.
Why and how you need to find every website you own
Universities have hundreds of sites. More often than not, the majority of these fly under the radar. At best, this can be a missed opportunity - but at its worst, it's can erode your brand governance model.
A new morleycollege.ac.uk
We've been working with Morley College and Hunterlodge Advertising to launch a brand new morleycollege.ac.uk! We're excited to show you all this new project that we've been working on.
Can you help us out?
We're keen to understand more about how your organisation creates and manages websites. Which content management systems do you use. Does your organisation experience any issues with site maintenance and management? How many sites does your organisation own?
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.
The difference between the needs of the user and stakeholder opinions and how feedback can affect a project
When it comes to redesigning a flagship website, a prospectus, or virtually anything that requires design input, there is a 99% chance that the client will have an opinion and thoughts to feedback (rightly so, they are paying for it).…
2000 Followers on LinkedIn!
We’ve recently surpassed a 2,000 follower milestone on LinkedIn. We’re getting some great feedback on the content we’re posting there. If you’re interested in the intersect of digital marketing, technological innovation and higher education, then you should follow us on…
Back-end UX and why it is equally important as the front-end in WordPress
This article provides insight into why you should pay equal attention to backend user experiences (UX) and interfaces compared to the frontend in WordPress.
Finding inspiration for your UI/UX projects
Inspiration births some of the greatest ideas executed. If you have been designing interfaces for quite some time, there is a high chance you have felt unimpressed with some of your designs. This is usually resulting from the lack of variation plaguing UI design. Designers are often required to create similar components per project, this leads to repeated "patterns".