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Websites and electronic publishing

Bringing it all together

Although we have described print and electronic design and publishing separately in this portfolio, one of our main strengths is our ability to produce a 'complete and appropriate package'. Depending on the needs of your audience, how you will be distributing your documents, whether you will need to update them later, and your budget, we will work with you to choose the best formats and produce appropriate designs accordingly.

Electronic documents can take many forms: website, interactive PDF, CD-ROM, etc) and a decision about the most appropriate format to use will be affected by how you want to use and distribute the documents and the resources you have to do so. The examples below give a flavour of what we might be able to do for you.

Website design

We designed and maintain the OPM site. We can create a site for your organisation or a specific project, to your specification, and arrange hosting and maintenance if required. If you need to keep costs down, we can show you some templates which we could adapt to match your own house style.

Community engagement in policing

community engagement in policing screen shotOPM worked with the Home Office on a major project looking at community engagement in policing project. We set up a website about the project, www.communityengagement.police.uk, and also an online Guide to community engagement in policing.

The Guide includes a database of good practice examples, to which registered users can add, and a discussion forum.

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Discussion forums

image: logoCAMHS forum for young people

As part of a project for the DCSF, we set up a discussion forum for children and young people to discuss mental health issues.

The forum has been heavily used by the group of young people who volunteered to be involved in the project. We can't show you the actual forum - because it's confidential - but you can view a PDF of the CAMHS mini-site and main forum pages (PDF, 1MB).

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Electronic publishing: interactive Acrobat PDFs

When you have a large amount of information to present, only parts of which will be of interest to individual sections of your audience, electronic publishing has the advantage over print. We can publish work as interactive PDFs, with clickable hyperlinks and buttons to allow readers to browse and follow their own lines of interest.

Furthermore, electronic documents can be made to meet accessibility standards, so that people with disabilities can use them far more readily.

image: cover of Making consultation real

Making consultation real: a toolkit for health and social care

  We produced a consultation toolkit for health and social care organisations in Wales. It is designed to help the NHS, social services, community health councils (CHCs) and the voluntary sector work together to undertake effective and meaningful consultation with service users and carers and the wider public.

The toolkit is in the form of an accessible, interactive PDF. You can download the toolkit here. [Note the large file size, 2MB].

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Forms, surveys and questionnaires

There are many different ways to go about creating a form that people can complete on-line. Our choice of method will depend on what you want to achieve, what software the person at the receiving end is likely to have and feel comfortable using, and in what format you need the information collected. Generally, we try to keep things as simple as possible.

We can create a straightforward web form in HTML.

A form can also be incorporated into a PDF — for instance, a registration form at the end of a brochure — allowing the recipient to read it online, print it or complete and submit it. See an example of our online PDFs of programme brochures.

SNAP surveys allow data from a whole set of questionnaires to be collated and analysed. The ASU can set up these. Design and Editorial can also produce a SNAP survey to match a client's design requirements.

We can also produce questionnaires in Word or Excel.

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CDs

image: CDWe can produce documents on CD, with well-designed CD labels and cases, and have these printed in any quantity, large or small.

Your CDs could contain just data files (such as Word documents) or be set up to run automatically with HTML (web pages), graphic menus, music, a survey, PDFs and several Word and Powerpoint documents.

 

If you think we can be of help, please contact Leila Carlyle on 0207 239 0877 or email Leila