Introduction
The International Council of Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a CEO-led organization representing many of the world's leading mining and metals companies as well as regional, national and commodity associations.
ICMM Website Homepage
Website
Background
During 2007 Solid State Group, alongside partner agency Bostock and Pollitt were commissioned to produce the new website for ICMM. As part of this project the website was built on the Cookie Jar content management system. Solid State Group handled the technical aspects of the project, whilst Bostock and Pollitt delivered the branding and design.
Objectives
- Develop a website with cutting edge design, reflecting the new ICMM branding.
- Build a modular, scalable set of page elements that can be organized by the content managers.
- Provide the platform to deliver Intranet, Extranet and CRM solutions in further phases of work.
- Include multi-lingual aspects including UTF-8 character sett.
- Incorporate an existing document library consisting of a large number of electronic documents including meta data and related content.
Solution
Working in partnership with Bostock and Pollitt, the solution provided best-of-breed content management with a modern design. Bostock and Pollitt provided all the creative expertise, handing over the technical build of the project to Solid State Group.
The site makes use of a set of modular of page components that can be included and managed on a per-page basis. Page modules are intelligent and context based, and includes content relevant to the page that they appear within.
ICMM are also using the Cookie Jar platform to manage their email database and send out regular newsletters to members.
The ICMM website is produced to the highest web standards validating to XHTML 1.1 and is optimised for excellent search engine rankings.
Fig 2 – ICMM Website – Our Work
Results
The ICMM website was very well received at launch, and has continued to be popular with members of the organisation as well as with employees. The solution has enabled the communications team within ICMM to manage the content on the site without any additional assistance.
The site launch was phase 1 of a multi-phase project. An Extranet and Intranet have already been implemented, and a Knowledge Management System with deep integration into Google Apps is currently in development.
ICMM have also benefited from product updates with the CMS platform, and have driven the development of product features with their requirements.
About Solid State Group
Solid State Group is a web platform software vendor and technical agency. The company specialises in solutions for managing web content and digital assets as well as social networking. Our products enable the rapid development of web sites and applications on proven and stable architecture. We also develop bespoke web applications from scratch and offer a full service solution including strategy, design, usability, SEO, and integration into third party systems.
The company has developed over 100 web projects since 2002 and complexity ranges from simple brochure websites to complex social networks, intranets, payment processing portals and eBay style ecommerce sites.
Our client list consists of blue-chip, public sector, SME and not for profit organisations. Blue chip clients include Shell, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Sony, Yahoo! and Ericsson. Other clients include NHS, Amnesty International, Brit Awards, Odeon and i-level. For more information please visit www.solidstategroup.com or call +44 (0) 207 613 7220.
