Adaptive Blog

We're Recruiting!

Posted Tue, 31st Jan 2012 by admin
Due to continued expansion of our client base, Adaptive are looking to immediately add to our team of PHP/Drupal developers to provide additional resource to our development and support teams. You'll be working across a broad range of our clients including public sector organisations such as Natural England, Walk4Life and JANET along with a wide range of private sector clients, large and small, including Vent-Axia, NES Global Talent and the Mines Rescue Service. You’ll be a knowledgeable PHP... [Read full post]

Three nominations for Adaptive in RAR Awards

Posted Thu, 10th Mar 2011 by Adaptive
We are delighted to say that Adaptive have been nominated in three of the categorise for this year's RAR Awards. The annual awards, organised by the Recommended Agency Register, recognise quality and service excellence from design and marketing agencies throughout the UK. The awards are based on ratings, comments and feedback from each agency's own customers and identify suppliers who have stood out from others in the past year in the eyes of their clients. Adaptive are nominated in the... [Read full post]

Adaptive community site receives praise from Culture Secretary

Posted Wed, 19th Jan 2011 by Adaptive
Community website MyTunstall.co.uk, developed and maintained by Adaptive, has received praise from Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt during a speech in Oxford. Speaking at the Oxford Media Convention on 19th January, Mr Hunt cited MyTunstall as an great example of a hyperlocal site which brings the community together online. His speech centred on the need for increasingly-localised media outlets, particularly utilising online technology, to satisfy growing priority that the public are putting on... [Read full post]

Adaptive named as one of the RAR top 100 agencies

Posted Wed, 15th Dec 2010 by Adaptive
Adaptive are delighted to have entered the Recommended Agency Register’s Top 100 agencies list, just months after joining the register. RAR is an impartial organisation which assesses and rates the performance of agencies across the UK based on client feedback. Clients are asked to score agencies based on key aspects such as client service, creativity, effectiveness, professionalism and value for money. RAR are then able to build up an independent gauge of which agencies are most valued by... [Read full post]

The Property Scout goes live

Posted Thu, 09th Dec 2010 by Adaptive
We're delighted to see one of latest projects going live and being made available to the public today. After several months of hard work, ThePropertyScout.com went public today with a press release from site owner Ben Bloomfield. In the release, Ben explains: "ThePropertyScout.com is essentially an online property search agent. You tell us about the kind of property you're after, we'll then go and find it for you. It's all done through the website and it's completely free to use." Built in... [Read full post]

Revamp for Walking for Health

Posted Tue, 16th Nov 2010 by Adaptive
We're really pleased to see the relaunch of Natural England's Walking for Health website spring into life today. Adaptive have hosted and maintained the original version of the Walking for Health website for a number of years and were Natural England's top choice for providing an updated, enriched version of the site when the project was put out to tender earlier in the year. The project will take place in a number of phases, with phase one being to replicate the existing site in Drupal,... [Read full post]

Workplace goes live for NES

Posted Thu, 21st Oct 2010 by Adaptive
Adaptive have this week launched a new "Social in the Workplace" development for an international recruitment company. NES operate a worldwide recruitment operation, specialising in highly-skilled positions predominantly in the oil, gas and power sectors. Adaptive were approached by NES to build a new platform to replace their existing staff intranet. A key goal of the new development was to more easily bring its worldwide staff together online to communicate and collaborate better across the... [Read full post]

RISK health and safety training site launched

Posted Fri, 15th Oct 2010 by Adaptive
Adaptive are pleased to announce the launch of a new website for health and safety training provider, RISK. The website - www.rsms.co.uk - combines information about the company and its courses with an online course search and booking service. The structure and content of the site have been carefully crafted in association with our search marketing company, Number 1, to ensure that the site ranks well naturally for the key search terms associated with the company. Adaptive Operations Director,... [Read full post]

Adaptive develops online pet tribute website

Posted Fri, 24th Sep 2010 by Adaptive
Adaptive are pleased to announce the launch of our latest development project, Lost & Fond. Lost & Fond is the brainchild of Elaine Pritchard and is an online platform for animal lovers to post obituaries and tributes to deceased pets. As Elaine explains: "I have started Lost & Fond to provide a warm and welcoming place where we can all remember the pets who have enriched our lives and find friendship and support from the huge community of animal lovers who understand how we feel... [Read full post]

Interesting Drupal in the public sector article

Posted Wed, 21st Jul 2010 by Adaptive
Really interesting article here about Drupal in the public sector. There is obviously a strong US bias in the article but many of the requirements and standards are similar to those in the UK. There's some very high profile sites in the public sector now using Drupal including: The White House US Senate US Army US Department of Education French government (main portal) City of London US Department of Commerce New Zealand‘s Ministry for the Environment World Bank United Kingdom Datastore (data.... [Read full post]

Government coalition document prioritises open source software

Posted Mon, 19th Jul 2010 by Adaptive
An interesting article here."The focus is on open source software and the publication of government data and the coalition also says steps will be taken to "open up government procurement and reduce costs"." [Read full post]

UK public data "tsunami"

Posted Wed, 23rd Jun 2010 by Adaptive
The UK Government and Sir Tim Berners-Lee have announced that they're being true to their word in making British Government leaders in transparency. The (technical) background to this policy make may little sense to the public in general but the outputs and usage of this data will be of interest to everyone. Read more on Google's European Public Policy Blog [Read full post]

Microsoft - your days are numbered

Posted Tue, 08th Jun 2010 by Adaptive
Dan says.... As time goes by, I found myself relying less and less on Microsoft technology. I only use Windows Vista (have Win7 upgrade but dare not install it) on my desktop because of a few apps that I quite like - there's equivalents available for Mac or Linux but I'm too lazy to change at the moment. When I replace my PC, it will likely be Ubuntu or.... dare I say it..... Mac. I have dropped Outlook completely as it just didn't do what I needed it to do. The search was awful, it crashed a... [Read full post]

Drupal used as employee engagement platform

Posted Sun, 30th May 2010 by Adaptive
We are just putting the finishing touches to a Drupal site that is to be used exclusively by the employees of the company.... in other words, an Intranet. The aims were: Communicate the aims of the corporation to employees Facilitate open communication between employees and management Inform staff of new and on-going projects within the organisation Connect individuals on different continents to share good practise and contacts Develop a community feel to the organisation Social space where... [Read full post]

Using Drupal as an Intranet platform

Posted Tue, 06th Apr 2010 by Adaptive
We had an interesting conversation with a potential customer recently. They were considering three options for their relatively large-scale Intranet. The options were Microsoft Sharepoint, Drupal and a proprietary Microsoft-based Intranet. We disclosed our Drupal-bias but like to think our summary of the risks and benefits was reasonable. We feel that Sharepoint is extremely hard, from a developers point of view, to work with. Simple changes can take considerable time. The other factor is that... [Read full post]

The iPad - the saviour of newspapers?

Posted Tue, 06th Apr 2010 by Adaptive
Dan says.... Disclaimer - I'm an iPhone/iPad fanboy. I'm very open about it and my parents don't have an issue with it at all - this is the 21st century after all.... There is quite a lot of talk about the iPad being the saviour of the newspaper industry - I don't buy that for a minute. I don't see the logic behind the reasoning the that iPad will suddenly change things for the newspaper industry. The problem with newspapers isn't the media they're distributed on - the problem isn't just that... [Read full post]

New website launched

Posted Fri, 26th Mar 2010 by Adaptive
We're just putting the finishing touches to our new website. All of our business has always been word-of-mouth but our old site didn't really represent what we are or what we do so here's the new one that does.... a bit at least! We'll blog occasionally but only if it's interesting or relevant - there's little point in talking techno babble on here as we're not trying to appeal to other development companies. :) A few sections from the old site have gone and the content on the new site will be... [Read full post]