Keep Britain Tidy Community Toolbox Launched

The Community Engagement Toolbox is an online resource commissioned by Keep Britain Tidy (EnCams) to provide a range of tools for Local Authorities, Community and Voluntary Groups and Registered Social Landlords to help engage and encourage people to improve their local environment. Keep Britain Tidy (EnCams) is an environmental charity that campaigns directly to the public and are best known for their Keep Britain Tidy campaign thats been running for over fifty years.

To provide the development of this website and bespoke content management system, KC3.net utilised its existing acms content management system as a starting point and customised this to meet the Clients requested requirements. The Community Toolbox includes a Resource and Document Library containing various documents, reports and guides for the target audiences. The Resources are organised alphabetically and also by target audience. The Resource Library also highlights the Top 10 Resources recently accessed.

The website is hosted in house at Keep Britain Tidy and KC3.net provided a custom installation of the website and content management system onto their servers in Wigan followed by testing of the system to make sure all was in proper working order.

The Bespoke Content Management System provided is a customised extension of our acms content management system and provides the following functionality:

KC3's Accessible Content Management System (acms) is the basis for future updates to the site. Since acms is a web-based content management system, there are no compatibility issues with existing internal systems. Content authors simply log in and can begin editing the content as they see fit. Most content management systems do not comply with accessibility standards but acms enables the site to continually meet these standards. The acms is also search engine friendly and supports meta content for search engines.

acms Benefits

- acms is web based: simply log in and begin editing your website.
- acms is easy to use - acms has a "WYSIWYG" editor so that "What You see is What you Get"
- acms is compliant with DDA Accessibility Guidelines: one of the first such CMS systems available.
- Supports upload of new images & documents & generation of new pages/sections
- Multi-Lingual Support
- Dynamic News and Calendars/events
- Dynamic Navigation and Auto Site Map
- Products/services database support and eCommerce enabled
- Configurable user roles
- Extranet/Intranet/Forums/Internal Messaging
- Drafts, Preview, Rollback
- acms is scalable and can integrate into your other systems

Wheels to Work WM Website Launched

Wheels to Work (W2W) is an innovative transport solutions scheme that aims to break the vicious circle of no job, no money, no vehicle by offering individuals their own transport for a short period or support for longer term solutions. This website covers six areas within the West Midlands and offers a variety of transport solutions including driving lessons, taxi tokens, moped schemes, and more. Users can visit their local area within the site (for example, Herefordshire) to see what is offered within the County.

The Wheels to Work West Midlands website includes separate areas for each of the six counties covered by the project. Each county page contains important contact information for that specific scheme. The website also contains a log in area for each county so that participants in the project can log in to view more detailed personal information that is not publically available. A Phase 2 for the project is anticipated will ultimately enable individual participants in the scheme to log in and see and update their own individual details (e.g. MOT, insurance and similar).

To make the management of the website easy for the leaders of each county scheme, KC3.net has provided its own acms content management system. acms is easy to use, even for those having low IT skills and is fully compliant with web standards and accessibility laws.

BBC Radio Debate - KC3.net Takes Part!

KC3.net's eMarketing Specialist, Charlotte Brookes, has taken part in a debate on BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester regarding the future of the billion pound Edgar Street Grid project (ESG). The views of key figures were put forward, including the youth perspective which was championed by Charlotte. Charlotte maintains the e-Marketing and Web 2.0 side of the ESG website including the Youth area. This invloves the maintainance of their social media tools, including Facebook and Wetpaint, setup for ESG by KC3.net, to better engage with, not only the youth of Herefordshire but anyone in the area who wants to have a say.

To hear the full debate visit the BBC - Hereford Worcester website.

ESG Herefordshire Ltd was established by Herefordshire Council and the Regional Development Agency, Advantage West Midlands (AWM), to lead the regeneration of 100 acres of land in the centre of Hereford. A small, but dedicated team of development experts, led by chief executive, Jonathan Bretherton, has been recruited to co-ordinate the grand 15 - 20 year redevelopment programme. A Board of non-executive directors, chaired by Clive Richards OBE DL, sets and oversees policy and direction.

The project creates clear and distinct, but interlinked zones - the Urban Village, where about 1000 new homes will be built, the Retail/Leisure Quarter, on the council owned 12.5 acre old livestock market, literally a few minutes walk from the city centre and the New Area, formerly the Civic Quarter, a vibrant mix of public buildings, private offices, shops and restaurants. There are also plans for an integrated transport hub, a site for further and higher education, plus a new police divisional headquarters.

Motiv Trailers' New Website Launched

Motiv Trailers required a simple and effective marketing website to promote their range of standard and bespoke trailers they manufacture for rowing boat transporting and other specialist and general pursuits.

Rowing Boat Trailers

Motiv Trailers manufacture a comprehensive range of rowing boat trailers with a range of accessories allowing you to customise your trailer.
Part of their Easy Tow series, trailers are lightweight and specifically designed for drivers who have passed their test after 1st January 1997 and have not taken a separate towing test. The trailer features adjustable rack positions for clearance over the towing vehicle. With a lighter chassis and body the trailer still keeps the quality of the models in our range and is a useful size for smaller clubs or as a second trailer.

General Trailers

Motiv Trailers specialise in bespoke trailer manufacturing whilst also offering a comprehensive standard range. From small, lightweight domestic trailers (perfect for camping) to box van trailers (ideal for market traders, moving furniture, etc.), car transporters and flatbeds, any trailer can be modified to suit your own needs.

Website Updating & Search Engine Optimization

It was most important that the new website could be easily updatable by staff and so the website was built using KC3.net's own acmsLite Content Management System.

Because of the large audience it was also very important that the site should be highly ranked by Google and the other search engines. To assist with this, Motiv Trailers used KC3.net's Search Engine Optimisation expertise as part of their overall eMarketing plan.