Today, and it feels great to say it, one of the biggest projects I have ever worked on went live. The Department of Conservation started their public website project many many months ago and set themselves an enormous task, which included reducing the amount of content pages on the site from a 5 digit number down to 4.
We redesigned the site with a large amount of effort going into rethinking and reimagining how users would access content. We also worked to develop the site putting it into the most excellent EPiServer CMS.
A unique feature of the site is something we’ve called DRDL. Or Dynamic Resolution Dependant Layout. What that actually means is that, using a little bit of Javascript and a lot of CSS, we ‘tweak’ the content depending on the size of your browser window. If you look at the site in a 800×600 screen you’ll see content that fits within your window, if you look at the site in a 1024×768 screen, you’ll also see content that fits nicely within your window. It’s a great way to help maximise screen real estate usage, at the web’s most popular screen resolution size, while not excluding those at lower screen resolutions.
It’s also probably one of the projects I’m most proud of too, and I did a lot of work with Nick who was an absolute superstar. Go have a look at the new and improved DoC website »
Also, as a parting note, apologies for the lack of updates recently. Life seems to be getting in the way. But that is also a very very good thing 
