Shanks Group plc the waste and resource management company serving customers in the UK, Belgium and Holland, have appointed Leftfield Digital to revamp their online presence.

Within the organistation over 3,000 people are employed at more than 100 sites offering a wide and often innovative range of waste management solutions. Shanks needed a web content management tool to serve the information needs of it’s customers, prospective customers, partners and staff.

Working in partnership with design and branding agency Appetite, Leftfield will deliver a custom install of Drupal CMS covering a range of content including information on social responsibility and client case studies.

Leftfield Digital has been appointed by Leeds Metropolitan Student Union (LMSU) to revamp their online presence with the deployment of a new Leftfield CMS site. The deployment will replace the existing content management platform.

The main reason behind the move to Leftfield CMS was driven by ease of use; the existing platform was considered too complex to maintain without technical support, and the fast moving nature and frequent updates required to the site content had led to the current website not being sufficiently maintained. This in turn had lead to students abandoning the site as a reference point for the Union and University.

With simple controls and a powerful feature set, Leftfield CMS will enable LMSU to re-engage students, streamline their administration processes and create a new channel to communicate with over 50,000 full and part time students. Future additions to the site are planned for Q2 2008, including a commerce function to manage merchandise and event ticketing activities, with a LMSU social networking area to support the students and the many social and sporting societies.

The new CMS site is planned to go live in Jan 2008.

Leftfield are now Gold Certified System Integrator partners of the Open Source Enterprise Content Management provider, Alfresco. This certification enables Leftfield to integrate this leading edge CMS management platform, and several members of the senior technical team are now also offically recognised as Certified Partner Integrators.

Leftfield’s Technical Director, Hamid Shayegan says “This certification is further demonstration of our commitment to deliver the very best in CMS and document management for our clients; Alfresco is at the leading edge of developer friendly, flexible Enterprise Content Management systems. This certification provides our clients and partners the confidence that Leftfield will deliver the optimum solution with this innovative CMS technology”.