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Here is the latest news about Futurate's work in marketing, website development and eLearning. Learn more about our recent website launches that use CakePHP, Drupal, OpenCMS and Ektron. View announcements about recent contract awards and accolades from the press and business community.

The launch of our new Kuvvi system for Dudley Zoological Gardens.

We're delighted to announce the inaugural launch of Kuvvi, our innovative fund-raising system, for Dudley Zoological Gardens (DZG) in the West Midlands.

This is a major deployment of our newly developed system and sees the first release of KuvviSponsor, KuvviMember, KuvviTicket and KuvviEvent to DZG’s visitors, supporters and staff.

An innovative business model means that DZG have had no upfront investment to make as payment is in the form of a fees-percentage based on the revenue created by Kuvvi.

Tue, 31/08/2010 - 16:39

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Devon County Council commission futurate to develop regional economic observatory

The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction (LDEC) Bill requires all county councils and unitary district councils to prepare an assessment of the economic conditions of their area.

Devon County Council have put the web at the heart of their plans for the development and dissemination of their LEA and Futurate have been commissioned to bring this innovative vision to life.

Wed, 14/04/2010 - 15:42

Futurate to develop new member-focused website for the Association for Learning Technology

The Association for Learning Technology (www.alt.ac.uk) has awarded Futurate the contract to work with the association to develop a new website. The new site will deliver ALT’s services, promote ALT’s activities (as a professional and scholarly organisation dedicated to spreading good practice in the use and development of learning technology) and facilitate the activities of the main stakeholders.

Wed, 14/04/2010 - 13:01

Edinburgh zoo on the beeb

Edinburgh Zoo's ground-breaking 'Chimpcam' project is the focus of a forthcoming BBC Wildlife documentary, to be broadcast on January 27th 2010.

You can find out more about how zoo researchers are gaining new insights into our nearest evolutionary cousins by training chimps to use video touch-screens.

There is more information on the BBC website. If you missed the programme, it might still be available on the BBC iPlayer.

Mon, 25/01/2010 - 18:01

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Edinburgh Zoo: the numbers speak for themselves

Our recent work with on Edinburgh Zoo's website - www.edinburghzoo.org.uk - went live on November 16th 2009 and we are pleased to annouce that there has been a subsequent and significant increase in traffic and revenue. The aim of this project was to:

Fri, 15/01/2010 - 13:53

Yorkshire and Humber regional environment forum website goes live

The new website for Yorkshire and Humber Regional Environment Forum has gone live today. It's a micro-site of the Yorkshire Futures website (www.yorkshirefutures.com) and it uses Drupal CMS's content syndication and replication tools to allow content managers to publish content once for display in multiple locations.

Thu, 10/12/2009 - 18:19

Our new website

We hope you like our completely new website (launched today!). It's the final part of a rebrand that we've been working on for while now and it's another example of a Drupal CMS driven website, developed by our team of friendly and clever PHP professionals (with a large dollop of help from our design team).
Our site isn't perfect yet. We are still fixing the odd bug and tweaking layout, but we'll be grinding away at those little details over the next few weeks.

Fri, 04/12/2009 - 17:48

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It's lift-off time for Yorkshire Futures

After almost a year's work our brand new, Drupal CMS driven website for Yorkshire Futures is now live. This sophisticated, feature rich site is the perfect medium for providing reseachers, the press and policymakers with up-to-date information about the growth and development of the region.

You can see more in our portfolio, download the Yorkshire Futures factsheet or visit www.yorkshirefutures.com

Fri, 04/12/2009 - 16:30