Portfolio: Cambridge Union Society

Visit site » www.cus.org

For this project we did the design, launch, integration, and maintenance. We used XHTML, PHP, MySQL, Photoshop and a lot of coffee. The project took about 3 months

For almost two hundred years, the Cambridge Union Society has stood as a vibrant centre of debate and free speech in British intellectual life. The Society is fiercely independent and has often been at the centre of controversy; shortly after its founding in 1815 it was temporarily closed down by the University for being too contentious. With its own bar, library and cinema facilities, it has become an integral part of student life in Cambridge.

They needed a totally new website that was both easy to use and yet full of detail about their rich and varied calendar of events: debates, yoga, speakers, wine tasting, conference hire and more. The whole site needed to integrate with their existing technologies and servers, be updateable by the committee (which changes every term) and the office staff.

Plus, new members can join online with PayPal, and have their membership cards ready to collect from the office with their details encoded.