Lancasters - marketing support through design and web development, based in Beckenham, near Bromley in Kent

 Whilst researching content management systems for our website service, one of our main criteria was to allow non-techy people a painless route to building and maintaining their own websites. So, having tried a few systems that had potential, we eventually settled on one.

  Importantly, we had to check the potential useability for the non-technical. So we set about building the Beckenham Junior Choir website, with the help of 3 teenage members. This was packaged as "work experience" and was originally greeted with teen indifference and displeasure, but with some guidance

This was valuable marketing work experience for them and a proof-of-concept for our self managed website service.

Since the website has been established, the numbers in the choir have grown substantially, and enquiries are received from further afield requesting the choirs' appearance for fund-raising and celebratory events..

The website building experience was a great starting point for the girls work experience. They found that later on in office-based work experience placements, that the article writing and information editing experience was really beneficial. The choir website CMS is similar to systems used in many offices today, and getting some experience and guidance with us was a really useful exercise.

So who said that building website wasn’t child’s play?

Visit : www.beckenhamjuniorchoir.co.uk