Curious Minds Website Brief Branded
Curious Minds Website Brief Branded
Curious Minds Website Brief Branded
For these reasons we would like to develop a website which is flexible, adaptable and allows non specialist staff to easily add new content.
Elements Required
Tile effect on website homepage, News section and Our Work section (Windows 8 feel). We like the look and functionality of tiles but are open to other ideas. Simple, logical navigation. Easy to update and add new pages and page elements. Ability to alter page layouts (tiles). Clear and consistent style throughout, reflecting our brand. Fast download speeds. News area that automatically archives old items. Ability to search for content within site. Rich media content (facilities to embed video Vimeo, and images and image galleries Flickr). Link to social media (Facebook and Twitter) and embed feeds. Integration with Facebook and Twitter, Like and share buttons to allow visitors to share pages and news items. Ability to group related content together. Analytics capability to report visitor numbers and page visits. Linked to Eventbrite to promote events. Linked to our CRM (Salesforce). Responsive, i.e. can be viewed easily on various platforms and devices (laptop, smartphone, tablet, etc.). Facility and capacity to upload files (images, pdfs, Microsoft Office files, including doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt and pptx).
3. Audience
Schools and Educational Settings Arts and Cultural Organisations Local Authority Contacts Children and Young People Young Peoples Sectors Funders and National Strategic Organisations
4. Design Specification
We would like the new website to reflect our brand, role, vision and values. The website will need to accessible based on a variety of download speeds and be able to be displayed on all forms of different display, e.g. size, tablet and mobile devices including smart phones.
Content
News News section to have individual sections to add content and to have latest items at top. Each section to be a tile (as with Home page) on main News page, but when tile clicked section to have a list with items placed in chronological order. o Jobs and Opportunities o Sector News o Curious Minds News o Funding o Artsmark and Arts Award News o Events and Conferences Our Work Split down in respective programmes. Each section to be a tile (as with Home page). Individual programme pages to automatically show related information, e.g. case studies, events, projects. o Bridge Programme o Artsmark o Arts Award o Services for Schools o CSNW o Social Enterprise 3
Grassroots Organisations
Who We Are o History o Vision and Values o Team o Board o Advocates Resources Talk To Us o Twitter o Facebook o Blogs o E-bulletin
5. Functionality Specification
Navigation
This is critical. It needs to be easy for visitors to quickly find the information they are looking for. Ideally they should be able to access any page or resource in less than three clicks from any other page. It should be immediately obvious where the navigation area is and where they should click to find the information they need.
Home Page
Retain the current footer and header and introduce a top menu but without drop down. Top menu to have click back of: Home, Contact Us, News, Our Work, Who We Are, Talk to Us. Main page area to have a tile effect (Windows 8 for example) and each tile to be a section or social networking feed.
Tile Sections
Each tile to be easily customised, resized and repositioned and to be able to incorporate a range of video (image, embedded video feed, social feeds, text, or feeds from other pages). Ability to view more information about page sections by mouse over. News (If possible, have latest news items feeding through from News page. Our Work Talk To Us Facebook & Twitter feed (Either separate tiles or ideally able to rotate between the two feeds on one tile). Register for News Artsmark Arts Award Resources Image Gallery Vimeo feed
Site Administration
Content Management System. Password protected login for the Web administrator/s. Ability to post news and other content. Ability to add/alter/remove areas of the site including navigation.
6. Hosting
The company owns the domain www.curiousminds.org.uk which will be the address for this website. The host to build and undertake any technical maintenance required. The host must have reliable backup and disaster recovery procedures in place to ensure that we would not lose valuable data in the event of failure of the server or any other piece of hardware or software. The site must be fully portable and easy to move to a new host. Ideally it should not be reliant on any unusual or custom software that is not commonly available elsewhere. The host must be able to build and save the site offline.
7. Search Engines
The website will be optimised for search engines and take into account the target audiences the site is trying to attract. 6 6
9. Deliverables
The website itself including Content Management System, built and saved offline for initial and future development phases. Documentation and a training session for the web administrators and demonstration for the whole team on how the site works. Clear information on how we will manage the website. Information about how the website is hosted, along with usernames and passwords. A statement that the website has passed accessibility requirements.
10. Budget
Quotes are requested from interested parties by April 26
11. Timescale
Invitation to tender notice issued Last date for receipt of responses Designer/Tender selected Functional website Content Uploaded Website goes live March 15 April 19, 3pm April 29 June 3 June 28 July 1
12. Submissions
If you are interested in submitting a tender please submit via email or post by 3pm, April 19 A detailed statement outlining why you are interested in this brief and any relevant knowledge and experience you have (including examples of previous work). Details of budget, timeline and explanation of how you will spend your time (see terms and conditions below). A CV. To: Susan Blackburn ([email protected]), or by post to Curious Minds, Lodge House, Cow Lane, Burnley, BB11 1NN. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions about this tender. The selection group will include Glen Meskell, Bridge Coordinator: Communications and Linda Drury, Director of Finance and Resources. They will assess submissions according to the following criteria: Submission of all required information. Evidence to support the additional requirements.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview with the selection group, who will choose the successful applicant.
13. Ownership
All code should have an Open Source license. The domain must be registered to Curious Minds. All content, images and artwork should remain copyright of Curious Minds. The website and CMS must be fully portable to another hosting provider and remain the copyright of Curious Minds.
* Curious Minds reserves the right to contact any references by mail, telephone or other means in order to make such enquiries as it deems necessary to help evaluate interested parties capabilities.