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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.

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 - 17:01


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 - 12:53


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 - 17:19


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 - 16:48


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 - 15:30


Edinburgh Zoo Goes Live

Edinburgh Zoo's new website, which was designed and redeveloped by Futurate for the Royal Zooological Society of Scotland has just gone live.

You can see more in our portfolio, download the Edinburgh Zoo factsheet or visit www.edinburghzoo.org.uk

Fri, 04/12/2009 - 15:20