Comments on: Hold the front page

By: Version 1.1 at Helpful Technology

Version 1.1 at Helpful Technology — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:13:51 +0000

[...] BIS was created, we were pretty chuffed to have got a solid website built and launched in 72 hours. But as the weeks passed and the organisation started to build up achievements and an identity of [...]

By: Catching up | DavePress

Catching up | DavePress — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:04:44 +0000

[...] a corporate website set up, within days of the creation of the department, all thanks to WordPress. Steph explains how. Neil Williams also played a big part as the other half of the BIS digital dream [...]

By: Chris Keene

Chris Keene — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:39 +0000

Pipes, Google Custom Search, Dapper, FriendFeed, Wordpress… you’ve used just about every cool website out there for creating your holding page.

Glad that you didn’t pick up the phone to your counter part in BERR and say ‘hi lets meet up and work on a new merged site and holding page. we can use cool web technologies, apis, web2.0, open source, etc’, and then get the reply ‘We only ever use expensive (and slow, and ugly) Oracle Solutions on a Windows platform don;t like any of this open source web2.0 nonsense’

By: Hold the front page at Helpful Technology

Hold the front page at Helpful Technology — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:50:18 +0000

[...] Here is the original:

By: Why agile is important in public sector communications | Simon Wakeman - public sector communications, marketing and public relations

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:40:49 +0000

[...] out the full story from the two of the team involved – Steph Gray and Neil Williams – and when reading their accounts remember that these guys did this against the [...]

By: Whitehall Webby

Whitehall Webby — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:08:44 +0000

I was having a play around with the site last night. It really is b****y excellent.

Great example of what can be done (wonder though if it would have been possible a year or two back with the use of feeds and aggregators). Really points towards a very focused and unencumbered future corporate web presence too and what content really matters.

Fantastic write up too.

By: Neil Williams

Neil Williams — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:55:48 +0000

Ping: http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2009/mission-technology-or-helpful-creep/

(Pingbacks *still* not working on my blog)

By: Simon Dickson

Simon Dickson — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:49:59 +0000

Brilliant. Totally, unquestionably brilliant. Bless you both.

See, everyone else, I told you so.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:13:20 +0000

Not keen on the jaunty angle

Like the clean look. Slightly worried about the possible confusion of bis.gov.uk and businesslink.gov.uk, particularly as the latter is oft abbreviated to biz.gov verbally…

By: Neil Franklin

Neil Franklin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:22:41 +0000

Effective and cheap, but most of all effective. Very, very well done…

To quote Harry M:

“Once upon a time, the web was a lumbering behemoth: now it’s agile, social and programmable.

“Fully-featured, rich websites can be produced in days, rather than months.”