Thames Valley Housing

Thames Valley Housing (TVH) has purchased BOCC's content management system CMS Lite to maintain their website.

CMS Lite allows administrators to publish a variety of content, such as pages, news, files and images, onto the public areas of the website. The web pages produced include a new fresh design and comply with the latest HTML standards, are fully accessible (to W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) conformance level A) and can be viewed by users with virtually any browser or operating system.

The development for TVH included:

• Fully content managed, dynamic website
• Standards compliant content delivery
• Creation of templates to match the prior static website design
• Data population
• Administrator training

Thames Valley Housing develops and manages affordable homes for rent, shared ownership and key workers in the Thames Valley region. It works in West London, Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, in partnership with local authorities.

Hosting provided by BOCC.

November 2006

Diversity Works Quiz

The portal site for Union Reps, developed by BOCC on behalf of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 2003, has been extended to include a dynamic online quiz.

The results of the quiz will be put into a report for the Greater London Authority next year as part of the Diversity Works campaign. The aim is to achieve 500 completed quiz sheets within 2 months, by promoting the website to reps in the London area. Existing site members who previously indicated their region as the south-east will also see a promotional banner on the web pages.

The quiz is dynamic (content depends on their answers to previous questions) and educational (explanations and related additional materials are presented through the quiz). The quiz is based on BOCC's successful Online Surveys product. Data is extracted automatically and sent to the TUC for recording and analysis.

Website and databases hosted by: BOCC.

November 2006

BOCC CMS Lite

BOCC's content management system BOCC CMS Lite has been provided to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to maintain the Union Learning Fund (ULF) website.

This allows administrators to publish a variety of content, such as pages, news, files and images, onto the public areas of the website.

The pages produced by the BOCC CMS Lite comply with the latest HTML standards, are fully accessible (to W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) conformance level A) and can be viewed by users with virtually any browser or operating system.

The development included:

• Fully content managed, dynamic website
• Standards compliant content delivery
• Creation of templates to match the prior static website design
• Data population
• Administrator training

Hosting provided by BOCC.

October 2006

Google Analytics

BOCC's technical team has provided consultancy advice and implementation of Google Analytics (formerly Urchin). Google Analytics provides information about website traffic i.e. web analytics.

An initial scoping review was undertaken to understand what the client wanted to achieve and how the existing website was structured and accessed. Without undertaking this type of review, data may be incomplete or inaccurate.

Google's online reporting screens provide powerful methods of data filtering and analysis, but like any tool, receiving training from experienced practitioners makes a huge difference to its value. Without having a thorough knowledge of Google Analytics, it is extremely easy to draw incorrect conclusions or pass on invalid information to colleagues.

Periodic review of the data is required to ensure that no errors have been introduced through changes to the website being monitored. These reviews can be undertaken using other tools and server logs as well as examining key parameters in Google Analytics.

October 2006