Portfolio
In this section you can look at a few example sites from our portfolio that illustrate our breadth of experience and the range of sites we have designed and built. The sites all have the common themes of:
- Elegant simplicity in visual design.
- Clear and easily understood site structure and navigation.
- No gimmicks - everything on a page has a carefully considered purpose.
We always strive to design and build sites to the highest standards which includes making them accessible to as many people as possible.
Examples in Education
St Stephen's Primary School
The brief: St Stephen's school in Surrey wanted to have a website that was very easy to navigate, very easy to update and was very accessible to visually impaired people. They contacted Meerkat after our site for Great Sampford Primary School won in the 2006 Visionary Design Awards and asked us to design and build the site for them.
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Great Sampford Primary School
The brief: To create an informative and fun site for pupils, parents, and prospective parents. The school wanted the site to be the primary source of information about the pupils work, governance and administration, fund raising, etc. as well as emphasizing the close knit community of The Sampfords.
Result: The site is now on its 3rd design iteration and in 2006 was the winner in the Public Sector category in the Visionary Design Awards for its accessibility to people with visual impairments.
Essex Primary Heads Association
The brief: The Essex Primary Heads Association were reliant upon a web service provider to perform updates on their website, resulting in updates being delayed and performed at considerable cost. They asked Meerkat to redevelop the site in a way that would enable them to maintain the content themselves.
Result: The site was redeveloped using Drupal which gives the EPHA the ability to add/change content very easily after only a couple of hours tuition. We made improvements to the original visual design and site structure to improve consistency and aid navigation. The EHPA now have a vastly improved site and are no longer reliant on a 3rd party to maintain it.
Essex Clerks Association
The brief: The Essex Clerks' Association needed a website to help clerks to school governing bodies share information and best practice. A key requirement was the ability to post Word and PDF documents to the site as well as articles and FAQs. The ECA asked Meerkat to design a new logo that improved on the existing one they created from clip-art.
Result: We designed a new logo that reflects the most visible part of a clerk's role, vis recording and organising governing body meetings. From this we spun the site look and feel - simple, clean, professional. The site was developed in Drupal 6, a key aspect being the ability to easily upload documents and have the flexibility to choose one or more pages in the site where they should be listed.