This bun’s been in Made Media’s oven for a while now but, as they say, slow bakin’ makes good eatin’. As well as showcasing The REP’s fantastic programme with visual impact this website features the full compliment of Web 2.0 must-haves:
- RSS feeds: Check!
- iCal Subscriptions: Check!
- Tags: Check!
- Flash Video: Check!
- Light-box Image Galleries: Check!
- Microformats: Check!
- Commenting: Check!
- Those little social-networking bookmark widgets: Check!
Huge thanks go to the wonderful marketing team at The Rep for having the right kind of vision, and for giving us enough time and support to deliver a website we’re really proud of.
And as if that’s not enough a meticulously re-designed ticket system is on its way shortly, courtesy of the technical geniuses at KB Group.
Avisen helps business to get a clear, real-time picture of their data. This website was built in partnership with our friends at Fuse Studio
The New Generation Arts (NGA) Festival, organised by Birmingham City University, is a 16 day programme of innovative regional art shows to be held on the 5th-20th June in Birmingham. Go and check out the website we built for it.
Fed up with left-field arts organisations spending your hard-earned tax-payer’s money shipping over outrageous, avant-garde, Norwegian performance artists to take off their clothes on the streets of Birmingham?
We’re not!
But if you are, why not stop whinging and do something about it by programming your own Fierce Festival this year.
Created in collaboration with our friends at Fluid.
We’re delighted to launch the newly redesigned Walsall College website this valentine’s day. Head on over and show some love.
We’ve just given Maverick TV an online facelift. Maverick are the hugely successful TV production company behind 10 Years Younger, How to Look Good Naked, and Embarassing Illnesses.
The new site features much more video, and all the info on Maverick’s burgeoning Digital Media department.
They’re using our CMS Backstage to take care of all the enhanced and improved content.
We were delighted to launch the new Town Hall/Symphony Hall Website this morning.
Some of the bright young things in our office are too young to remember Birmingham’s Town Hall as a functional venue, but following a painstaking restoration it re-opens in October as a more intimate sister-venue to the world-renowned Symphony Hall.
Our brief, put crudely, was to ensure maximum bums on seats at both venues and with that in mind we focused on events and tickets. The site remembers the kind of events you’ve looked at in the past and starts to focus the home page towards your tastes. There’s always room for something different though.
We also found time for a few Web 2.0 niceties so there’s plenty of RSS, tagging and iCal stuff going on too.
See you at the opening festival!
Doing our bit for chariddee, we're delighted to be involved once again with this years Art Auction for Cure Leukaemia.
All proceeds from which will go towards the new world class Leukemia centre at the University Hospital Birmingham.
Made designed the branding for the event, which this year features the beautifull art work of Cattrell.
The event is taking place on 17th April at St Pauls Gallery so book a place now, remortgage your house and go pick up a few future priceless heirlooms.
Made Media are delighted to present our second New Art Birmingham website. Between 15-18 March NAB07 will feature over 100 artists exhibiting across 21 venues region wide making it the largest visual arts event to take place in the West Midlands.
New Art Birmingham continues to be new and unique in its approach in creating connections with the contemporary art market. Building on the success of NAB 2005, it will showcase challenging and diverse work by regional, national and international artists, reaffirming Birmingham’s place on the contemporary art map.
We're particularly looking forward to the Art Market which takes place in the old Curzon Street station. As Pete Ashton points out on the Created in Birmingham blog, the venue alone is worth a visit. When it's also packed full of vibrant new art, it's irrresistable.
Introducing Diarised, a new web application from Made Media Ltd
Diarised is a simple to use web application that will help you arrange meetings. It’s completely free to use and doesn’t require any registration.
- Diarised is free – You can schedule as many meetings as you like, and suggest unlimited dates for your meetings.
- Diarised is easy to use – The clutter-free interfaces make organising meetings with Diarised straightforward.
- Diarised is productive – Diarised will figure out who can attend and on which dates and notify you with a list of the best times and dates, leaving you more time to get stuff done!
- Diarised is fast – There's no signup required, you can start using Diarised immediately.
We've striven to make Diarised as easy to use as possible and worked hard at finding the correct balance between providing information (good) and nagging (bad).
Why Diarised?
It’s an application that we wanted ourselves. An application we intend to use. There doesn’t appear to be anything else that provides a service like this - certainly not without registering or paying - so we built it ourselves. We need to arrange meetings constantly and the endless batting around of possible dates between email CC lists just drives us crazy. We think Diarised will reduce the headaches we associate with this process and that is the reason for its development. We hope you like it.
How does it work?
Well, as the home page explains, it’s a five step process.
- Enter the details of your proposed meeting into Diarised, including the meeting invitees and the possible times and dates for the meeting.
- Diarised sends out emails to all invitees.
- The invitees choose the times that suit them best.
- Once the invitees have chosen their preferred meeting dates, Diarised will tell you the best dates for your meeting.
- All meeting invitees will be sent an email confirming the chosen date and time
Future Developments?
No promises yet but we have ambitions of adding user accounts with added features. In particular this would let users that register (which will always remain optional) the chance to maintain a meeting history, maybe an address book and, most importantly in our view, a filestore. ‘Filestore?’ I hear you ask. Well yes. In particular a way of distributing materials relevant to any particular meeting. So it will be easy to upload agendas, previous minutes, documents for review and distribute these to those attending the meeting via web link rather than heavyweight email attachment. There’s some complexity in making this work really well but we’ve thought it through, have a plan and now just need some time to implement it.
We have other ideas for expanding Diarised but they’ll have to wait for another day. Of course, we would welcome suggestions and feedback. Enjoy.
