Publish What You Pay's global coalition of transparency advocacy organisations has come a long way in the years since we rebuilt the site with Drupal in 2008. And there was a growing sense that the Where We Work section wasn't properly keeping pace with the range of members or their activities. So we took a fresh look at the mapping, the navigation and the page layout.
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 The FAAN project brings together partners from across Europe that are involved with local, sustainable small scale producer retailers. The project needed a public website and a community networking area for its partners, which provided alternate language content and multiple access levels for the different types of users. |
 Global Dialogue runs a sub-granting process to support local NGOs by establishing local Strategic Funds, that support local democracy and human rights projects. GD first contacted us about a web project when The Strategic Fund for Turkey was created in 2007. They needed a very minimal ‘leaflet-style’ online presence that they could point their supporters to for more information. They also wanted something up very quickly. We used the Drupal CMS to create the site, and a generic theme for the page design. In this way the site works as it is, but can be extended and elaborated on at any time. |
 Forests Monitor investigates the forest industry to empower forest-dependent people and raise public awareness, as part of an effort to increase transparency and accountability of the sector. |
 The DPU associates are a group of consultants who have all been members of the academic staff of the Development Planning Unit at University College London. They do research and training in the specialist field of urban planning for development. |
 After completing the IWPR public website, we turned our attention to developing a private site that could form a useful virtual office for the distributed team of writers, trainers and researchers who work for the organisation. The private workspace was built using Drupal, and includes a calendar and special file management system – developed specifically for this project, but now available to all Drupal-driven sites. The file store area allows for workers’ local files to be organised and shared in the folders of the Intranet using a ‘drag & drop’ method. |
 After GreenNet won the tender process for this high profile project, we were given just 5 weeks to build a site that would work as the main administrative organ of this major event. We worked with ActionApps to build a system that could process secure payments for tickets and handle multilingual publication of content in five languages |
 The Electronic Immigration Network (EIN) web project involved a total rebuild of the EIN’s old ASP website. The site is now powered at every level by ActionApps, allowing for content from 6 complex databases of legal material (legislation, case law reports, country reports, online legal resources, a calendar, job vacancies) to dynamically update the site. An initial 16,000 documents were imported into the site from the former database in October 2002. The site now houses more than 100,000 documents. |
 In 2003, the Conference of Socialist Economists had the entire 26 year archive of their printed quarterly magazine ‘Capital and Class’, scanned and digitised. The challenge then was to build a website which would add value to a journal subscription by providing searchable access to this archive. The finished site includes a secure online subscription feature, an HTDig/AA integrated search which indexes all PDF previews of back issues, and a simple process for updating by CSE staff. |
The DEA had managed a static site for several years when they approached GreenNet for a solution to their changing publishing needs. Their growing databases of publications and contacts needed an online home which the static site simply couldn’t accomodate. After working together with DEA on a new architecture for the more sophisticated dynamic site, we developed this resource rich site of materials and services for the education sector. The databases of contacts and publications are fully searchable and easy to update. |
Web projects
GreenNet web projects are all about planning, designing, building and hosting websites that work for you and the issues you’re working on.
The GreenNet web team have spent the last ten years building dozens of websites for NGOs, campaigns, social enterprises, development projects, ethically-minded freelancers, community groups and many others besides. And we just get better and better at doing it which means a) all the work that is done in the name of one web project gets shared for the benefit of all subsequent projects and b) we're now the best we ever have been so there's never been a better time to ask us to build a site for you!
GreenNet web project basics
Every project is different but there are some pretty consistent threads running through all the sites we build:
- Transparent navigation
- Accessible content for both people and search engine robots
- Simple data structures for organisations to update
- Effective tools for collaboration between workers
- Engaging spaces for supporters to interact with your work
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