News feeds galore.
The Industrial and commercial side of npower create and update news stories on a daily basis, the brief was to get this information to users in the best possible way. The main feature being the now daily YouTube videos for the market updates, created using a simple YouTube playlist so contributors only have to add the latest clip to this and it is pulled in automatically across the Large and Medium market update pages.
The other point of the pages was to pull in excerpts of latest npower news (which took a fair amount of customisation for the dated CMS) and link to energy videos and the latest blog updates as well as showcasing all the awards the IandC team have won.
Likes
- Removing the integration with DOT NET code, makes the page a lot faster
- Setting up the logic in the CMS to pull in the latest stories automatically.
Dislikes
- Deploy process, 3 servers, multiple style sheets, templates, fragment files, config setting etc
- Couldn’t support mobile…yet.
Lessons learnt
- How to deploy complex code through the CMS correctly.
About Ben
Hi my name is Ben and I am a front end web developer based in the Midlands of England. I love all things HTML and CSS with over 7 years commercial experience but on the side i also enjoying smashing my body to pieces down the gym and playing football.