Sky – Join The Bigger Picture

THE BRIEF

Sky required an overhaul for their corporate responsibility portal “JoinTheBiggerPicture” which covers a massive range of Sky public media from Arts to Entertainment to Sports to Environment.

The challenge was to produce a custom CMS that allowed potentially limitless numbers of content editors, content managers and various other hierachial levels to visually interact with the content they were manipulating.
The visual aspects of this CMS are what made it different from off the shelf products, and the requirements for an intuitive interface that required no training to use were key parts of this project.

THE SOLUTION

Working with Array[x] we built the backend in ASP .NET, incorporating into the system elements of ExtJS and the MooTools library to facilitate the required user experience.

The design templates were provided by the creative agency Stickee, which we then took responsibility for turning into accessibility compliant XHTML/CSS templates and subsequently adding the necessery ASP bits and pieces and merging into the system.
There was also a large amount of already existing functionality that had to be incorporated as part of Sky’s internal environment incentive scheme which involved the addition of Flash API’s which were fed by user choices within the HTML interface.

A significant amount of time was then spent extensively testing the usability of the back end and the intuitivity of the interface before handing the project over to the client.

THE FUTURE…

Sky continue to use this site and system at the time of writing, and there have never been any major bugs of updates, which stands testament to the extensive testing and rigourous build protocol put in place by Ben @ Array[x] who subsequently now manages all projects of such a large nature.

www.jointhebiggerpicture.com