DPU Associates
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.
In 2006 their coordinator approached us with a request to build a site which could be used as a simple store-front to raise their professional profiles and publicise their areas of expertise.
European Social Forum 2004
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
Capital and Class
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.
Bristol Creatives
We developed this site on a very tight budget for Bristol East Side Traders. Working with a page design that they provided, we built a simple and functional Drupal site for people involved in the arts in Bristol to publicise their work, and share information.
Development in Practice
Development in Practice is a quarterly academic style journal from the Oxfam publications stable. In 2004 they asked us to take a fresh look at their web presence, which had been managed as a static site for the previous 4 years. Their need was for a more dynamic site which would make it easier for their small staff to keep the site updated. There was also a sense that much of the site’s content could be made easier to find for the readers and researchers using the site.
IWPR Intranet
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.
Electronic Immigration Network
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.
DEA (formerlly known as Development Education Association)
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.
Fair Trade Foundation Calendar
With the rising profile of the annual Fair Trade fortnight, in 2006 the Fair Trade Foundation commissioned GN to add an interactive calendar to list events, and make it easy for users to find events in their area. They wanted something quick and inexpensive, and at the same time needed it to integrate seamlessly with their site. The ActionApps CMS provided an ideal solution as it’s designed to enable dynamic elements to be added onto any website.
We created the custom fields required for their events listing, and then used an interactive UK map as the interface for users to select their region.
Creative Exchange
Creative exchange had been managing their subscriptions and publication distribution operations with a complex series of offline databases. Their need was to consolidate the databases and integrate them with their public website, so that the data could be accessed and managed by any authorised users.
