We know that each site is different, and each site will need a different amount of work. We have worked on a considerable number of projects which have required different amounts of work from ourselves. These projects range from including a search facility on an already existing site, to implementing a fully featured database system, to designing and hosting complete web sites. We also do a nice line in clearing up after other developers. Here are some examples.

Voluntary Arts Network Every now and again a project comes around that tests more or less every aspect of the Cool Pants knowledge base. This was one of those. The Voluntary Arts Network provide information, advice and training to people and organisations working in the arts sector. They have four regional offices, and a head office. They wanted a website that they could update themselves, and an online database offering many of the features of Access, but with data shared throughout all their offices. www.voluntaryarts.org Cool Pants provided - A fully featured content management system that consists of the ability to add and edit everything - whole pages, links, and images registration with search engines site tested in various browsers and screen sizes visitor log search facilities subscriber emails upload of pdf, word and and image files full training ... and lots more. An online database system uploading and homogenization of the existing data sources design of the web-based interface more features than you could shake a stick at

We Will Destroy You A site built to accompany an art installation. It includes a reconstruction of the piece written in JavaScript. www.wewilldestroyyou.com Cool Pants provided -  absolutely everything the idea for the installation all the images all the text the JavaScript programming the digitization of a video - on the site in RealVideo format.

g39 g39 is a contemporary art gallery. www.g39.org Cool Pants provided - HTMLisation (if that's a word) of an existing site design Several programs which were written and installed email subscription facility show and artist databases, which can be updated by the client JavaScript dynamic menus installation of a text only script. CD -ROM g39 produced a cdrom to accompany a recent show. This was developed by us using Director.

Bloc Bloc is a forum for art and technology in Wales. www.bloc.org.uk Cool Pants provided - a database which automatically generates the news page and the news section of the front page.

Use Black Ink Only Use Black Ink Only is an online gallery - a showcase of artists.  www.useblackinkonly.com Cool Pants provided - a suite of programs for this deceptively simple looking site an automatic handwriting generator - with settings for size and messiness a random sentence creator, based on words visitors can type into the site a database of artists. This uploads and automatically creates thumbnails of artist's images, and produces the artists' section of the website on the fly.

Dylan Thomas Boathouse This is a Dylan Thomas promotional website, funded by Carmarthenshire County Council. www.dylanthomasboathouse.com Cool Pants provided - Several programs were written and installed search facilities a script to mark the online quiz dynamic Javascript menu installation of the Betsie text only script automatic database driven updates of the events and what's on pages.

Anecdotal City Anecdotal City is a project undertaken by Cardiff artist Jennie Savage to document stories. www.anecdotalcity.com Cool Pants provided - advice all the way through the process design of the web pages an insanely complicated website navigation system, that allowed users to browse the stories in a completely novel way CD-ROM the project is also available as a cd-rom, which was produced by us.

Black Sheep Bar A pub in London commissioned us to make a simple website consisting of their menu and some photos. We couldn't help but add a little to this... www.barbarblacksheep.com Cool Pants provided - design of the site a one in five chance of loading a white version of the front page hidden visitor counter

Baby Pants A web based shop designing and selling babygrows. www.babypants.co.uk Cool Pants provided -  A full online shopping system Design and development of all the HTML pages Programming of all the software involved  A shopping cart program tailored to their exact requirements Ability to store and print invoices in an innovative admin section on the site. Registration with a credit card company, and interface with their site, to enable Baby Pants to accept credit cards orders. A comprehensive internet presence Registration of the company name Pages of company information Instructions and help on the shopping system Graphics and text as required Email addresses and facilities

Focus Model Management A simple site from a Model agency containing photographs of the various models that are available.   www.focusmodels.com Cool Pants provided -  The website design scanned all images, and although they came from many sources, they were made to look uniform converted printed material to web-based material  An easy to use image display program software automatically detects and displays pictures of a given model  the client is able to add and remove models at will, with little computing knowledge.

Community Dance Wales A Welsh umbrella arts organisation needed a way of keeping the various parts of the membership up to date. www.communitydancewales.com Cool Pants provided -  website design fresh design, using logos already in existence multi-lingual version of the site collated web-data from many different sources, and combined them to create the website dancing men on the front page programming each page has a series of four images at the top. These are randomly displayed by a JavaScript program. password protected message board system self updating calendar page automatic inclusion of the next calendar entry on the front page. administration section to allow for changing of message board passwords, deletion of messages, and access to the hit counter.

Cultural Enterprise Service The Cultural Enterprise Service is a non-profit making organization providing business support for Welsh creative industries. One of the ways they do this is by maintaining an arts projects and contacts database.  Cool Pants became involved when they decided to make this database accessible online, but did not want to go to the expense and the bother of having their own server. So what we did was write a program in VBA, which ran on their Access database. It constructed an email of any database changes that are made, and sends it off to the internet equivalent of their database.  We then wrote a program that runs each morning at 4am which reads the email, and changes the online version of the database accordingly. Then we constructed the internet program that allows clients to interrogate this database. We also provided a variety of other bells and whistles for the site, including a self updating diary, a noticeboard system, search facilities and a visitor counter. www.cultural-enterprise.com

Babylog I was recently lucky enough to be blessed with a son - I prepared for this in the only way I knew how - in the creation of a website dedicated to his gestation, and birth. The site is now split in two - prenatal and postnatal. www.babylog.co.uk Cool Pants provided -  interactive womb ultrasound scanner (this cannot be explained properly here, and should be tried) a countdown to birth (that is now a counter of the number of days since birth) a dynamically updating voting page, which was used for visitors to vote on whether we had a boy or a girl. a 'Name that Baby' competition many pictures, sounds and videos of the boy before and after his birth.

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