Marlborough College
Marlborough College in Wiltshire is one of the leading independent schools in the United Kingdom. The College caters for about 870 pupils, the great majority of which are boarders. These are accommodated in 14 boarding houses of which 4 are all-girls, 5 are all-boys and the remaining 5 houses have 13-18 year old boys with a number of Sixth Form girls as well.
In 2011 TWK Media pitched against 8 other web design agencies for the work of re-designing and re-building the Marlborough site. The emphasis of the project was to build an impactful site that truly communicated the beauty of the Marlborough site and the high-quality of all aspects of the school.
In August 2011 the new site was launched with extensive content and new functionality including videos, live news feeds, maps, a prospectus request form, a real-time calendar and social media integration. The site is powered using the Typo3 Content Management System which allows the day-to-day management of the site to be run by a large number of staff who are given different levels of access and editing facilities to keep everything fresh and up-to-date. Typo3 is easy to use and offers full flexibility and extendibility so that the site can continue to be developed over years to come.
“From the start of the project to finish, TWK have been a pleasure to work with and have provided excellent solutions to all of our design and functionality needs. We have a site that we are proud of and are receiving excellent feedback all the time. Managing content is a doddle compared with our old systems and the site fully integrates with our own system to continually provide live information. All the team at TWK have been quick to respond to requests and cover off all the necessary aspects of the service – from initial design to behind the scenes development. Thank you from all of us at Marlborough College”
John Crawley, Commercial Director, Marlborough College.