Secret Orange has been
working on some neat projects recently whilst getting to know some
new technologies and platforms such as: LINQ TO SQL, Umbraco 4.0,
Microsoft MVC...to name a few.
Huzu - Social Networking Platform & Toolkit
Secret Orange worked with HUZU (part of the
DA
Group) to help develop their new Social Media Platform.
The Huzu platform is ASP.NET 3.0 based and offers developers
functionality to easily create online communities. They have a
number of different editions tailored for different models. Go over and have a
look!
This is Huzu's new shiney marketing site:
Soccer Republic - Irish Football Fan Site
Secret Orange worked with YOMEGO (part of
the DA
Group) to help develop a new football fansite for the Irish
world cup campaign.
Phase One of the site is live just now and allows users to watch
a stack of video content, read news article and enter
competitions.
Phase Two is currently in development which is built upon HUZU's
Social Media Platform (see below!). This will offer fans full blown
social networking capabilities.
Bergo - Ergonomics
bergo.co.uk, run by Nick Bradley, is one of
Secret Oranges partners. Bergo provides human factors consulting,
research and training services.
Model Team
Secret Orange worked with The Model
Team to develop their new website. This site uses
Flash for its front end but adopts a strategy
where individual pages are used. This was a concious decision to
aid Search Engine Optimisation (the flash content is actually
loaded from hidden HTML in the page) and usability (full use of the
brower history buttons and copyable URL's in the address bar). The
site is fully content managed using the Secret
Orange Solution
Framework.
