First Steps London

Project Summary:

First Steps London is the U.K's largest Affordable Housing web portal. A joint venture with Metropolitan Housing Association and L&Q Group, First Steps London was one of the first web portals to offer full on-line application form and client account areas. First Steps London covers affordable housing for ALL areas of London and Greater London, providing full property listings, email updates, on-line application form, and Content Management System for administration of the site.

First Steps London required a modern face lift to the existing website developed by our company previously. The clean and structured new layout enabled the existing content and site navigation to be presented in a significantly more organised and user friendly way.

We also enhanced the home page by adding in dynamic feeds from key areas of the website to promote the latest properties added to the site, latest updates and news and a simplified property search facility.

Content throughout the site was also enhanced dramatically with new information and graphical display solutions, image viewers and tab separated content to keep things light, fresh and clear at all times.

Project Specification:

• W3C XHTML and CSS standards
• Site structural wire diagrams analysis
• Layered site template designs in Photoshop
• Forward to a friend facility with data capture
• Expandable text size in line with accessibility guidelines
• Search Engine Optimisation and compatible code compliance
• Dynamic drop down mega menus
• Google Analytics / Webmaster Tools integration
• Secure password protected area
• Image and text interactive & animated gallery / viewer
• Interactive Maps / Postcode route planner
• Content manged application (CMS)
• Social Networking Integration
• Communication forms with integrated Captcha and intelligent validation