Read the latest blog on our projects and new developments in areas like security, WordPress and Typo3. The team at Prater Raines write how projects have progressed with challenges that have been faced. We like to keep you informed in technology and security updates.
We’re building a lasting memorial in recognition of the service of the Royal Gurkha Rifles.
The Gurkha Memorial Fund was initially set up to raise funds to install a memorial statue in recognition of the service of the Royal Gurkha Rifles in Folkestone. Having achieved this aim, it is now moving on to raising funds to maintain the statue and also to educate young people and the wider community locally about the contribution made by the Royal Gurkha Rifles.
Part of this process was to modernise their existing website by moving it from flat HTML to WordPress. Prater Raines was delighted to complete the work, having been long time supporters of both the Gurkha Justice Campaign and the Gurkha Memorial Fund.
We’ve helped the CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) launch a newly designed site to complement their new print and digital offering for members and other PR professionals Influence.
Influence replaces the Conversation website which we built for the CIPR a little over a year ago: a WordPress based website that features both bespoke content and curated aggregated content from a wide range of CIPR members Public Relations blogs and sites.
The redesign required a new WordPress theme and a developing a handful of new plugins to support the revised functionality.
We’ve launched the first of two new websites for FIM Capital Ltd, who have recently changed their name from IOMA Fund and Investment Management Limited.
We worked with FIM Capital’s selected designer The Hive to deliver a sleek, easily updated website that looks good on devices from desktop to mobile.
The site is based on WordPress, making it an easy to maintain and cost-effective option, but overlaid with completely bespoke design and a few neat touches!
Prater Raines advised on site usability throughout the development process, proposing solutions that would ensure the best possibly usability of the sites design on all devices and screen sizes.
Tell MAMA (“Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks”) supports victims of anti-Muslim hate and is a public service which also measures and monitors anti-Muslim incidents. Their existing website was looking dated so they came to us for help improving its look and usability.
This project involved creating a new design for an existing WordPress installation, with the creation of a customised contact form for reporting hate crimes and anti-Islamic extremism in the UK. The ability to automatically share posts to social media was also added to the site’s functionality.
Prater Raines were delighted to be asked to support Faith Matters in improving and updating their web offering.
This project involved importing an existing Joomla website’s content into WordPress, applying a new design, and then transferring all files, including the MySQL database, to the client’s existing hosting.
The new site needed to aggregate content from the Tell MAMA and Religious Reader sites, and involved the development of a WordPress Plugin in order to allow for the downloading of PDF file reports. The ability to automatically share posts to social media was also added to the site’s functionality.
Web programming language PHP was 20 years old yesterday and to celebrate Ben Ramsey wrote about his history with the language, and invited others to do the same.
I know I’m a day late but I’d like to share my story too.
In 2002 my friend Tim Prater had developed a website platform for 8 Liberal Democrat groups and approached me for help expanding it. He was using classic ASP but I chose to rewrite in PHP because it was cheaper and seemed more robust.
Prater Raines has been supporting Liberal Democrat MPs since 2003, when we first developed the website of Andrew Stunell. We continue to do so today, delivering websites for Tim Farron MP and Greg Mulholland MP.
Through our system of daily, weekly and monthly email digests, we offer an unparalleled ability to match ground campaigning through Focus leaflets with online campaigning via email. You produce the content, and we’ll handle the delivery. The perfect system for hardworking local MPs.
In these days of big data, we also offer open, click and donation tracking as standard, as well as the ability to import data from other sources.
The Parliamentary Press Gallery was founded in 1803 and now represents more than 300 newspaper, agency, radio and TV journalists who work at Westminster. Since 2014 it has offered internships, in partnership with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, to talented and committed young people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds interested in gaining work experience within the Parliamentary Press Gallery at the House of Commons.
This project required a redesign and refresh of the Parliamentary Press Gallery website. The hosting of the site was moved to our secure servers, with the new site built on WordPress, with a theme modified in house, and with the addition of historically relevant imagery to complement the design.
We were delighted to be asked to create a website presence for three candidates in the Liberal Democrat Presidential Election 2014. Each website needed to make use of base Foci2 skins in a unique way, incorporating strong imagery, engaging content, and CSS overrides, to create a brand identity for the candidate that distinguished them from their competitors who were also using the same web services.
Each campaign sought to engage with members in unique ways, leveraging our social media integration, contact/volunteer forms, and email digests to keep supporters engaged and updated throughout the campaign.
The Liberal Democrat President, Sal Brinton continues to use her site to help keep members up to date with her work as President.
The War of the Words pop-up HG Wells exhibition is based just a few doors away from us on Sandgate High Street. We were pleased to support the project by putting together their simple but effective web presence to promote the products on sale, reason behind the exhibition and more. Featuring a fully responsive design, the site is easy to use for those searching for details on their phone while visiting the area!