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Pages change and sometimes invalid code can creep in, so we re-validate our pages regularly. Please tell us of any errors you spot.

Electronic documents can take many forms: website, interactive PDF, CD-ROM, etc) and a decision about the most appropriate format to use will be affected by how you want to use and distribute the documents and the resources you have to do so. The examples below give a flavour of what we might be able to do for you.

Website design

We designed and maintain the OPM site. We can create a site for your organisation or a specific project, to your specification, and arrange hosting and maintenance if required.

If you need to keep costs down, we can show you some pre-designed templates which can be adapted to match your own house style, or design a 'mini-site' of just a few pages (see below)

Community engagement in policing

OPM worked with the Home Office on a major project looking at community engagement in policing project. Editorial and Design set up a website about the project, www.communityengagement.police.uk, and also a Guide to community engagement in policing.

The Guide includes a database of good practice examples, to which registered users can add, and a discussion forum.

Time needed

About 15 days of Design and Editorial time is generally enough to design, plan and create a site of 60-75 html pages, including a reasonable number of revisions from the client.

Additional costs:

the time spent researching and writing material, on-going maintenance, any site hosting or domain registration required, any images that need to be purchased and any interactive, animated or database elements.

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Mini-sites

A mini-site is a set of about four pages, hosted on the OPM site or your own. These are particularly suitable when you want to establish a small or short term, inexpensive web presence. An example might be to promote a leadership development programme where you can provide information about the programme, tutors, dates, resources, etc., and a place to publish participants' contributions (articles, photos, reading lists and so on). A discussion forum can also be included (see below)

Time needed

To set up a mini-site of four pages attached to the OPM site: 1 day set up cost plus 1 day to maintain the mini-site for the life of a programme.

Additional costs:

image sourcing and mainipulation, separate domain registration and hosting, if required.

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Discussion forums

Clinicians for Change

OPM ran the Clinicians for Change programme for Essex Workforce Development Confederation. The programme aims to build a cadre of senior clinical leaders who can meet the current and future challenges of leading the county's health system through a time of dramatic change.

As part of the programme, we provided an on-line forum on the OPM website, where participants and tutors can exchange ideas and learning.

Time needed

To set up and maintain a single discussion forum on the OPM site: 2 days
To set up and maintain a multiple forum: five individual forums (for five programme 'cohorts') plus one general forum (to which they all have access): 3.5 days

Additional costs:

setting up a mini-site to house the forum, if required

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Other forms of electronic publishing

When you have a large amount of information to present, only parts of which will be of interest to individual sections of your audience, you need people to be able to see the overall structure and locate relevant sections quickly. Electronic publishing, which can use internal and external hyperlinks, has the advantage over print here.

Furthermore, it is possible to 'tag' electronic documents so that they meet accessibility guidelines, enabling people with disabilities to use them far more readily.

Powerpoint presentations

Do you want to make your Powerpoint presentations look special? Or might you, like some of our clients, want a report formatted in Powerpoint so that it can readily be uploaded to a website but retain information, such as statistical data, that can be updated later?

We can design a Powerpoint template for you, or take a presentation and transform it into something that looks consistently good and fits your house style. See some sample pages these have been converted to a PDF for the purposes of this website)

Time needed

Allow a day for a straightforward presentation; complex charts (such as shown in the example) can increase the size of the work

Interactive PDFs

Making consultation real: a toolkit for health and social care

  We produced a consultation toolkit for health and social care organisations in Wales. It is designed to help the NHS, social services, community health councils (CHCs) and the voluntary sector work together to undertake effective and meaningful consultation with service users and carers and the wider public.

The toolkit is in the form of an accessible, interactive PDF. You can download the toolkit here. [Note the large file size, 2MB].

Funding third sector organisations in England: a decision support tool for funders

A good way of presenting material in an easy-to-use format is to create an interactive PDF. In this case, the clients at the National Audit Office were having trouble visualising how the final Word document might translate into a web site. They asked us to design something similar for them to look at.

We designed a colourful, 69-page long, interactive PDF. The idea was to navigate through the tool by clicking on the tabs and links that would take you to the different stages and subsections of the tool. This makes it extremely easy to use and the client was very pleased with the result. An advantage of this format is that it can either be put on a website or printed out. View sample pages [not all links will work as pages are missing]

Time needed

Editing and design, time, including redrawing diagrams: 4 days (not including printing costs)

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Forms, surveys and questionnaires

There are many different ways to go about creating a form that people can complete on-line. Our choice of method will depend on what you want to achieve, what software the person at the receiving end is likely to have and feel comfortable using, and in what format you need the information collected. Generally, we try to keep things as simple as possible.

We can create a straightforward web form in HTML.

A form can also be incorporated into a PDF — for instance, a registration form at the end of a brochure — allowing the recipient to read it online, print it or complete and submit it. See an example of our online PDFs of programme brochures.

SNAP surveys allow data from a whole set of questionnaires to be collated and analysed. The ASU can set up these. Design and Editorial can also produce a SNAP survey to match a client's design requirements.

We can also produce questionnaires in Word or Excel.

Time needed

Please discuss your needs with us and we will quote.

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CDs

We can burn CDs for you. If a client asks for files to be sent to them on CD, all you need to do is ensure all the files you need (and only the files you need) are in a folder together, and send us an email to let us know where to find them. We do not charge time for simply copying files onto a CD unless you need multiple copies (say more than five) or want something special (see below).

We have also included CDs in programme packs and publications (such as the Addenbrookes governance folder). If a project requires lots of copies of a CD, we are likely to have it professionally burned and printed, but if you only need a small number (say 20) we can burn them ourselves and make a stick-on label, as illustrated here.

Special CDs. We can also make CDs that run automatically and open an introductory web page with menus from which the reader can choose. These CDs can be as simple or complex as you like. You could have, for instance, an introduction in Flash®, several web pages, music, a survey, PDFs and several Word and Powerpoint documents.

Time needed: Please discuss your needs with us and we will quote.

 

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