Hi all at Chester,
I'd like to introduce myself and the team from Torchbox. I am Olly Willans, I'm the Creative Director at Torchbox (actually I started Torchbox with my business partner Tom Dyson, the Technical Director, almost ten years ago now).
The main man on our side is Bryan Gullan, he's the day to day project manager and has got a track record of delivering large content managed websites. He is definitely a 'safe pair of hands'.
By the way, you can find out more about us (including mugshots) here...
JP Stacey is our technical lead on the project. He leads on Drupal and other integration. Garrett Coakley is the other main Drupal implementor on the project. What's Drupal? It's the 'content management system' the interface that lets you update the website yourselves.
The key people in the design team are Nick Lee and Wes West, both battle hardened web designers. For Chester, we've worked up two design concepts, one of which we'll end up taking forward to be the new Chester website.
Ian Bellchambers is overseeing the business side of things, contracts etc.
And, I oversee the design and lead on the user experience... what do people really come to the site to do? how do we really engage them? how do we make the experience as fluid and easy as possible? how do we get 'em to come back? or better still, come to an open day etc. etc.
Anyway, we're all very excited to be working on this project. It's a challenging space with lots of universities doing interesting stuff. And we're looking forward to helping the team put Chester right 'up there', online.
This post may not get too many readers, as it is ill-timed being just before Christmas, but if you've got this far, treat yourself to the Torchbox Christmas video card... go to our website and on the front page, put your name into the box and watch it whirl....
Happy Christmas,
Olly and the team at Torchbox
