Charter Community

The new dynamic website for Charter Community Housing, designed and developed by BOCC, has been completed. It uses BOCC's robust content management system (CMS).

The impressive new design, structure and functional modules allows administrators to publish a variety of content, via a workflow system onto the public website.

The development included:

• Fully content managed, dynamic website
• Standards compliant content delivery
• Extensive reporting and monitoring
• Legacy system integration

Hosting provided by BOCC.

October 2005

Payments Accreditation

BOCC's online payments system, has been accredited by the Planning Portal, the resource for planning information and services set up by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM).

The BOCC module, used by local councils, commercial organisations and professional bodies alike, can be called from third party applications allowing payments to be integrated into the Planning Portal system. This provides a seamless experience for people making planning applications and payments.

The payments system offers:

• ergonomic interface
• online live authorisation
• user help
• payment reporting and tracking
• optional special modules, e.g. council tax, sundry debtors

Systems, databases and hosting by BOCC.

October 2005

Union Learning Fund

BOCC bid for, and was subsequently asked to develop a new interface design for the Union Learning Fund (ULF) grant application system, grant management system and website.

The new design was required due to the rebranding undertaken by the Learning and Skills Council, who jointly fund the ULF with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Department for Education and Skills. The design process involved developing style guides and mock screens. The design was discussed, developed and amended after discussions with test user groups before an implementation plan was created. An important aspect was to ensure that all existing and pending data were unaffected by the change to design across all the systems. Users also had expectations that screen arrangements would not change significantly.

BOCC configuration management ensured that the software and website systems were migrated to the new design without any user downtime.

The systems were developed and are hosted by BOCC.

September 2005

Office to Web

BOCC has extended the successful Word to Web Page converter to cater for WAI Triple A (AAA) accessibility.

The modifications now ensure that ALT text flows through from images embedded in the source document or can be edited, tables are provided with summaries and header rows and the generated code is XHTML 1 compliant. The converter uses a module developed by BOCC where administrators upload a word processing document and the server creates:

• single web page, with or without contents list
• paginated web pages
• Adobe portable document format (PDF) version

The method has been in use successfully on the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Shelter and Oxford City Council websites developed by BOCC.

Websites and databases hosted by BOCC.

September 2005