We have made some new updates to Racing Home!
Our client challenge us to combine feeds from various sites including Racing Home and compile two seperate RSS feeds so that the site doesn't require as much maintenance in the form of writing blogs.
We embarked on taking the 8 feeds, pulling the top 10 stories from each. We then ordered the 80 stories and updated the RSS feeds with the latest 10 stories over all 8 feeds. These then are posted to the front end of the site where visitors can click through to the relevant story at the source site.
We hooked in TwitterFeed to post this to Facebook and Twitter, with a little bespoke work in the feed itself the traffic pushes to Racing Home before going to the story in order to drive the traffic from the near 10,000 followers to Racing Home.
A nice little challenging project which we enjoyed! Stay tuned for more exciting updates coming soon!!!
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11th April 2012 Racing Home Updates
29th March 2012 New updates to Dechen
We are currently in the process of creating an events management tool for Dechen. Hoping to launch mid-April after testing both the UK and US sites in the hope to also roll out to the Mexican version too.
As the site was built in Dreamweaver using HTML templates we have had the task of developing the content management system on a seperate domain for all sites to pull information from. Using PHP and JSON to pull the information across domains we have been able to redevelop the Events sections for the events, centres pages and global right hand side bar to pull without changing the site from HTML thus the client (Dechen) can still update the site using their Dreamweaver system.
All in all we are happy with the outcome and look forward to deploying Dechen's updates next month.
17th February 2012 Anya17 Blog design updated
We have recently updated Anya17's main site and blog with Anna Celeste Watson's new design. We are proud to be volunteers to Anya17, it is a great cause.
You can find out more about Anya17 at http://www.anya17.co.uk
3rd January 2012 Happy New Year from DR Solutions
Happy New Year to all!
We are very excited over here at DR, this year looks to be our year! It seems after 5 years we have finally landed and proven to be reliable and cost effective to clients and our associates! With more work than we know what to do with (not like we are complaining) we are excited with what 2012 has to offer.
To all our associates, clients past, present and future, we wish you prosperous New Year!
From the small but excellent team @ DR :)
25th October 2011 Brick Restoration re-vamp goes live
We have just re-launched Brick Restoration with their new design.
The challenge was simple. It needed to be simple, clean and show the user exactly what they offer. You can take a look at the website here http://www.brickrestoration.co.uk/
This is also our first site to use TypeKit. TypeKit allows you to chose from a range of fonts that may not be available on the clients computer when the webpage displays. The font is then downloaded using Javascript to the page from TypeKit and displays accordingly.
A simple but effective design which the client is over the moon with!