Comments on: British Hallmarking joins BIS web platform

By: What does more for less look like? at Helpful Technology

What does more for less look like? at Helpful Technology — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:47:00 +0000

[...] arguably the more significant launch of the week Neil has blogged about on his site. Quietly, Neil and his team have built an enterprise-strength shared hosting platform and [...]

By: Steph Gray

Steph Gray — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:30:39 +0000

‘Tis good. What’s interesting too is not just that it’s a nice site (I love the news page: http://www.bis.gov.uk/britishhallmarkingcouncil/new) but that it cost the partner probably an order of magnitude less than a new standalone site would have done, and several orders of magnitude less than a site with that level of CMS functionality and hosting would have done.

When converging sites, it’s fairly easy to skin-and-link (as it’s known in the trade), or just hack an old site down to a few pages within the parent CMS, but this approach delivers a site with its own identity, which meets all government rules at low cost, and which gives the BHC folk a platform to do their own digital engagement.

Good work BIS webbies!

By: Will

Will — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:29:07 +0000

Nice one Neil, looks great!

By: neillyneil

neillyneil — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:41:09 +0000

@annkempster why thank you.

By: annkempster

annkempster — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:25:14 +0000

@neillyneil Great job by you and the BIS team!!