Services
Word to Web publishing
Automated e-publishing is becoming a standard in e-learning development as it already has in print and web publishing. The Word to Web Publishing System (W2W) is an e-publishing system that enables content creators to rapidly populate, preview and amend content. W2W has a number of major capabilities that make it the ideal publishing solution:
Instant conversion from Word to Web
- Rapid development and deployment of web sites, information resources and e-learning
- Flexible and ever expanding set of interactive templates, such as:
- Multiple choice, drop down choices, gap filling, un-jumbling sentences, typing in missing text, typing in text with check
- Drag and drop (fully accessible) matching words, statements, images, audio, tables, columns and sentences
- Interactive dialogue, highlighting letters, words or phrases, inserting phrase dividers, re-ordering words, re-writing words or sentences
- Video / audio player, embedded audio, slideshows, drop down information boxes, Techphonetic characters, embedded Flash;
- Familiar authoring environment (using MS Word or Open Office to input all content)
- Standards Compliance W3C Valid XHTML, W3C Accessibility Priority 2 and 3 where appropriate
- Proven technology MS Word, XML, XSLT, CSS, Javascript, XHTML and Flash
- Established workflow process to distribute work evenly and appropriately amongst team
- Master content is held in Word, facilitating effective maintenance and reversioning
- Documents are stored in a content management system
- The use of mature, highly-developed components assures reliability and quality control.
- Saves time, reduces risk and embeds expertise.
Online demos
Production support tools
Amendment tracker —a collaborative change control tool for recording progress, issues, amendments and bugs during production and maintenance phases. This provides teams located in different offices with a quick and reliable way of tracking progress.
Project management and project coordinators
A project manager and a project coordinator will be assigned to all projects. For smaller projects the project coordinator may also double as proof reader or technical tester, once given suitable training. This allows for a quick and efficient turnaround and product delivery. Change management is handled by the project manager
Web developers and web builders / media assistants
Media assistants are used to do standard web builds such as W2W and Moodle and population of Dreamweaver templates. They perform a vital role and support the developers and project managers. Copyright clearance and image sourcing can also be arranged through a suitably trained media assistant.
Graphics design
Our graphics designers pride themselves in producing engaging web designs with the ability to template and scale:
- Animated diagrams / 2D character animation
- Video
- Graphics design
- Illustrations
- Picture sourcing
- Photography
Editors and Proof readers
All projects are assigned an editor or proof reader (or both). It is essential that this team is fully briefed on Brand guidelines and writing style guide, and of course the full project specification.
Quality assurance and technical testing
All builds and assets are checked before releasing product alphas, betas and final release. Even the smallest change is checked by a second party before being released to the client. Standard test plans are used for multi-platform checks and accessibility checks. When new codes or components are being checked a custom test plan is created for each component.
Out-source where and when required
When we require extra capacity (web developers, project managers, editors) or capabilities we do not hold in-house, such as 3D animations, comic strip cartoon styles or artistic illustrations, hi-end video production or highly artistic treatments, we use our freelancer list developed over 8 years to source reliable and high quality people.
