We've been working hard on a massive website overhaul for Henley Royal Regatta over the last 2 months.

Everything from the design of the site and the results system, to every last bit of content has been overhauled.  We've spent a lot of time and thought on the navigation to make it as easy as possible for everyone to find what they are looking for.  

Visit the new HRR website

Content

The Regatta website is visited by three separate groups:

1) Racing crews and their rowing clubs
2) Spectators at the Regatta and the general public
3) Media and journalism teams

As a result of identifying these groups we ended up splitting up the main Regatta information section into 'Crews', 'Spectators' and 'Media', so you don't need to search through unnecessary stuff to get what you need.  Re-designing and re-working of most of the old content on the site then followed.

Results System

The Regatta website has an automated results system which is available for free to anyone who visits the website.  During the Regatta, our team enters the race information onto the system as it happens, which then does the following:

• Displays the results on the main website (including an automated update function, so you don't have to refresh your browser to see the latest result)
• Displays the results on the mobile website
• Provides an RSS feed for RSS readers on mobile phones or computers
• Sends multiple SMS messages to crew mobiles around the site
• Updates Twitter & Facebook with the latest race information

See the results system here.

Mobile website

We also overhauled the design of the mobile-friendly website for Regatta, which you can see if you visit www.hrr.co.uk with your mobile phone.

Happy New 2012 everyone!  A new year, and a new release of our Content Management System.  I can feel the excitement in the air...

This one is called Harold and is version 4.2.   New features include:

• WYSIWYG editor for the mobile-friendly interface
• Drag & drop functionality for page items on the test site
• Recycle bin - retrieve deleted pages and items

If you want to find out more about the new features, we've listed them here.

The new version will be rolled out to all of our customers soon.  If you want a demo of Hidden CMS, just get in touch.

We recently created an on-line application form for one of our clients, which allows people to submit an application for a grant using their website.

Once an application has been submitted, the site administrators can log in to Hidden CMS and view each one:

We also added the ability to export all of the application details to Excel, so that committee members can see an overview at meetings.

If you'd like something like this creating for you, please get in touch.

We've been busy over the last few months, but we found some spare time down the back of the sofa, and used it to put together a new website, a new release and new documentation for Hidden CMS (our Content Management System) .

New release

Version 4.1 (codename George) has now seen the light of day.  There's a bunch of new features and improvements, and if you want to know more then you can head over to the Hidden CMS changelog.

New documentation

Version 4 of Hidden CMS now has full documentation, so you can get to grips with using it on your own website.  We've tried to include as much detail as possible, whilst keeping it easy to read.  It's in the first revision, so we'll probably make a some tweaks to it over the next few weeks.

New website

We thought it was about time Hidden CMS had a new website (and mobile version!) to go with Version 4, so we've made a simpler, tidier and prettier website for it.  You can see the new website at www.hiddencms.co.uk.