We build exemplary websites for the public sector
- We specialise in the public sector
- We plan, design, build, host and refine websites
- We use open source software, especially Wordpress
What we do:
We create beautiful, usable, accessible websites that work
We deliver projects on time, on budget, that exceed your expectations
We focus on the public sector, and understand its needs
We understand the web, and can help you to get the best out of it
Interested in working with us?
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Plan
We'll help formulate a website that your users will find useful, and that can be delivered on budget.
We'll make sure that you have the right processes to support your website, and make sure your team are familiar with agile development, its benefits, and how it works.
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Design
We'll talk to you about your objectives, discuss the features of your site with real users, and figure out how to best marry the two.
We'll use that information to come up with a layout, look and feel for your site -- which can be original, or based on your branding guidelines.
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Build
We'll take the designs and turn them into real, functioning web pages. We'll show you your site early and often, so you can see how it's developing.
When we think it's finished, we'll ask you to review it, test it with real users, and make sure it's the best it can be.
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Host & Refine
We'll host your site, provide statistics on its usage and monitor it proactively so we can respond quickly if something breaks.
We'll advise you on reviewing your site's real-world effectiveness, and on measures you could take to improve it, so you're always improving.
Latest from the Blog…
Dextrous Web to join PM’s delegation to India 26th Jul 10
I’m honoured and delighted to have been asked to join the PM’s delegation for his visit to India next week, in order to participate in a hack day with Indian developers in Bangalore. This should be a great event — we’ll actually only have 4 hours for the hacking, but hopefully we’ll be able to take some of the lessons we’ve learned about civic hacking here at home and apply them to some Indian problems. Very exciting.
From my loose understanding, India certainly faces some interesting and unique challenges. But I don’t know what they are, or how best the web can solve them. I’m sure there’s a broad section of Indian society for whom web applications are not a very practical solution to any of the challenges they face. At least for the time being. So, what are the problems experienced by Indians who are digitally included? And how can we use the web to solve them?
Should we be focusing on applications for mobile phones? Or on low-cost devices like the curiously iPad-like $35 laptop?
Should we aim to produce a quasi-public-service like FixMyStreet, or tools for accountability and transparency, like Armchair Auditor?
What sort of public data is available in India, both officially and for scraping? And how might we be able to use it to influence Indian public policy for the better?
As always, the aim for the day is to have something tangible, useful and interesting that we can show to people. Even if it’s only a screenshot or a very raw prototype.
Very grateful for your ideas, thoughts and advice!
Lab Notes
WordPress Docs 29th Apr 10
With a couple of days between projects, I had a chance to work on my latest 20% project.
RailsAPI‘s sdoc format is very nice in that it allows searching over all methods and classes, and is generally an intuitive way of doing things.
WordPress is full of PHPDoc comments, the Codex is invaluable, and of course being able to read the source is absolutely necessary much of the time. All in all, WordPress is quite well documented, though there’s really no coherent place that brings that all together. So I am very happy to have this new tool available before my next WordPress jaunt: WordPress Docs.