• Responsive

    Responsive newsletter

    Building on our existing work with responsive email templates, we've optimised what we've learned from industry peers and can show it working with existing content requirements.

  • Responsive

    Renaissance

    This is it. Building on top of the initial responsive demo from late 2012, we're moving forward and iterating our way to small screen success (not forgetting the large screens, too).

  • In-app guides

    In-app guides using HTML

    In-app guides are a forthcoming feature of the NT handbook app. Have a play with this demo on your smartphone to see how well they work using just HTML, CSS and JS.

  • Fine Farm

    102 frames of stop-motion

    The Fine Farm Produce Awards is an annual competition of, well, fine farm produce. Take a look at our stop-motion animation that could sit before interviews with the winners of 2013.

  • Responsive

    We should be responsive

    You've read the article. You've heard Labs witter on about it. Now experience the working responsive demo of the National Trust website. Have your small screen device at the ready.

  • Map

    OpenStreetMaps rock

    Google Maps is pretty powerful, but can lack detail. Here are some examples of some National Trust places that demonstrate OpenStreetMap's much improved detail.

  • Idea

    Grand Central

    Wouldn't it be great if everyone in an office could see what their colleagues are up to, whether they be in a meeting or at their desk. Pretty cool if it can work with Outlook services.

  • Idea

    The Gallery

    Quirky and deliberately different and humorous advertising ideas that the National Trust could use to help challenge perceptions. All ideas gratefully received.

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We've been going since 2009 and have created a lot of work. The really old stuff isn't searchable here, so you'll have to go without.

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Project
Grand Central
A souped up version of Station. This could be become a handy internal tool. But will it ever see the light of day?
Not Top Trumps
Collate the most interesting National Trust properties and rip-off of a well-known brand in the process. Unless of course we get a team-up sorted.
Not Google Maps (Again)
It's time to start using Open Street Map.
Off the Wall
An off-the-wall idea for navigating Trust web content.
Open Street Map
An alternative to Google Maps.
The Gallery
Visual approaches to quirky and deliberately different advertising that the Trust could use to challenge perceptions.
This Is The Future
Less hierarchy, more flow. A radical treatment for accessing data in a more geographically-led way.
Advert: Shop – Discount Weekend 2012
Adverts for discount weekend for online shop.
Advert: Shop – Generic 2012
Generic set of adverts for online shop, to run throughout 2012.
Advert: Shop – Mother's Day 2012
Set of adverts for Mother's Day promotion for online shop.
Advert: Membership (Bounty) 2012
Set of adverts for Bounty.com website, advertising membership (with 3 months' free offer).
Advert: Visitor Marketing (Generic) 2012
Set of generic adverts for visitor marketing 2012 campaign.
Advert: Visitor Marketing (Easter) 2012
Set of adverts for visitor marketing 2012 campaign, used for the run-up to Easter.
Advert: Gardens App Advert
MPU for the What App magazine's website.
Advert: 2013 campaign test
First test of national campaign ads for 2013.
Advert: 2013 campaign test
Second test of national campaign ads for 2013.
Advert: I oak leaf interactive
Interactive ads for national campaign 2013.
Advert: London and South East
Ads for LSE region, Easter 2013.
Advert: 2013 National Campaign Easter
Ads for Easter 2013.
Advert: 2013 National Campaign OOH
Out of Home ads for national campaign launch 2013.
Advert: 2013 National Campaign (Weather Channel)
Ads to run on home page of Weather Channel for national campaign launch 2013.
Advert: Quarry Bank Mill appeal 2013
Donate adverts for Quarry Bank Mill.
Advert: 2013 campaign showcase
Showcase of MPU ads of 'smoky campfires' and 'flying kites' at Gibside and Wicken Fen respectively.
Advert: Love my outdoors
Love my outdoors ads for 2013.
Email: Affiliate membership 2012
Membership email for affiliates to send.
Email: Affiliate membership (Easter) 2012
Membership email for affiliates to send in the run-up to Easter.
Email: Affiliate membership (Summer) 2012
Membership email for affiliates to send for summer.
Email: Affiliate membership (Summer cold) 2012
'Cold call' summer membership email for affiliates.
Email: Nymans 2012
Property email newsletter.
Email: Quarry Bank Mill
Email for the Quarry Bank Mill appeal 2013.
Email: Quarry Bank Mill sign up
Email for users who sign up to the QB games.
Email: Quarry Bank Mill (TV series)
Email for appeal ask related to C4 show, The Mill.
Email: Holiday cottages
Pithy: responsive email template for HC
Email: Holiday cottages
Cottages: responsive email template for HC
Email: Holiday cottages
Seasonal update: responsive email template for HC
Email: Discovery cruises
Another corporate partner, another email design
Email: Laithwaites
Email for May 2013: wine from Laithwaites, National Trust corporate partner.
Advert: Membership Ads (Generic 2012)
Generic set of membership ads for 2012.
Advert: 50 Things
50 Things ads for 2012 campaign.
Advert: Visitor Marketing (Free Weekend 2012)
Visitor marketing ads for the free weekend 21-22 April 2012.
Advert: Shop (Mugs and Rugs)
Shop ads for some products.
Advert: Mumsnet Hub
Ads for the Mumsnet hub.
Advert: Wet Weather
Rich media ads for VM's wet weather idea.
Advert: Derby Localisation
Set of ads for Calke, Kedlestion and Sudbury for Derby localisation.
Advert: Ham House
Set of ads for Ham House and its art exhibition.
Advert: Kids go free
Set of ads for kids go free summer offer.
Advert: White Cliffs of Dover
Set of ads for the White Cliffs appeal.
Advert: Membership ads for summer 2012
Sets include couples, families, groups and indoors.
Advert: Great British Walk 2012
Adverts for Great British Walk (and Northern Ireland and Wales).
Email: Visitor Marketing (Autumn) 2012
Visitor marketing email, for Autumn 2012.
Email: Visitor Marketing (Christmas) 2012
Visitor marketing email, for Christmas 2012.
Email: Visitor Marketing (Spring) 2012
Visitor marketing email, for Spring 2012.
Email: Visitor Marketing (Spring free) 2012
Visitor marketing email, for Spring free 2012.
Email: Visitor Marketing (Summer) 2012
Visitor marketing email, for Summer 2012.
Email: Visitor Marketing (Winter) 2012
Visitor marketing email, for Winter 2012.
Email: Visitor Marketing (Wet Weather) 2012
Visitor marketing email, because of April showers 2012.
Email: Lake District Appeal 2012
Email to tie in with Direct Marketing campaign for the Lake District Appeal.
Email: Just Go! Holidays 2012
Email for corporate partner, Just Go! Holidays.
Email: Great British Day Out (Beach)
Email for Facebook competition, Great British Day Out.
Email: Great British Day Out (Castle)
Email for Facebook competition, Great British Day Out.
Email: Great British Day Out (Generic)
Email for Facebook competition, Great British Day Out.
Email: White Cliffs appeal
Email for White Cliffs of Dover appeal.
Email: Love my outdoors
No, really, please love it.
Email: Membership (2013) A/B Test (A)
New edition for a new year (but with the old copy). Sufficiently mobilised for mobiles, too.
Email: Membership (2013) A/B Test (B)
New edition for a new year (with new copy). Sufficiently mobilised for mobiles, too.
Email: Good Energy
A new corporate partner, a new email.
App Hub
Brief mock-up for app hub site.
iOS Combined App
Demonstration of the potential for developing the handbook app for the iPad.
Outdoors App
Early days demo for the prospective Outdoors app.
Opening times (awesome)
Quality demo that showcase potential of awesome opening times feature for the handbook app. Miles better than a calendar!
Opening times (visuals)
Visuals that progress the awesome idea, and introduce additional functionality making it even more awesome and for individual places too.
Trail map editor
Slick interface for creating trail maps for trail PDFs. Nice.
Pagebuilder
Nurture's Pagebuilder using jQuery.
Workflow buttons
Standard buttons for Fatwire CMS. Oh, the glamour!
Standard Model
Standardising HTML and CSS for the data project, VADER.
Knowledge: Setting up a small web project
Get started making a small web project.
Knowledge: HTML basics
Understanding how a HTML page is constructed.
Knowledge: HTML tags
Meet the many tags that help us construct HTML documents.
Knowledge: HTML email
It's not quite the same as creating a web page.
Knowledge: Understanding HTML tables
Welcome to the wonderful world of HTML tables.
Knowledge: CSS basics
It's all about the flow.
Knowledge: CSS attributes and logic
Understanding how CSS works and what it can do.
Knowledge: Applying CSS
Give it some style.
Knowledge: Responsive web design
Learn all about responsive web design.
Knowledge: Responsive web design in action
See what we did with responsive web design for the National Trust website.
Knowledge: The colour palette
Colour values and guidance for using the National Trust's colour palette online, including accessibility.
Knowledge: The typeface
A family of fonts including, Display, Regular, Italic and Bold.
Web fonts test
Web font demonstration, to see if it pays to use the National Trust font on all site text.
Countryside Supporters' Scheme
Mock-up of potential countryside supporters' scheme page for the South West region.
Home page
Demonstration page showing category buttons on home page.
New property pages
Demonstration page showing updates to the property pages, 2012 style.
New countryside property pages
Demonstration page showing updates to the countryside property pages, 2012 style.
Radical new property pages
Demonstration page showing radical overhaul of property pages.
Home page unit (message box)
It's new. It's fancy. It's finally here! Ooooh, shiny.
Home page unit (I oak leaf)
It's new. It's 'I oak leaf'. It's now on the home page.
Home page unit (50 things)
It's for 50 things. It's now on the home page.
Join: process update
Updates to improve the logic and aesthetic of the membership process.
Join: Klick-2-Call
Addition of funky button for calling direct.
Left hand menu
Updates to the left hand menu based on Nomensa work.
Shameless self-promotion
Those non-adverts you all love.
Vegetable calendar
Vegetables. In a calendar.
Preference centre
Preference centre sitting in the website (fancy that!)
Preference centre
Preference centre for email marketing. Independent of website.
Email sign up
Sign up form for main newsletter.
Holiday Cottages
Responsive email template for Holiday Cottages. It works!
Holiday Cottages Showcase
A suite of three, with three options each that showcase a potential new direction for the HC team's email output.
Join (at a property)
Process to join at a property. Book-end features.
Map: Benchmate
Google map for Benchmate.
Map: Bluebells
Google map for Bluebells.
Map: Butterflies
Google map for Butterflies.
Map: Energy Project
Google map for Energy Project.
Map: Gardens
Google map for Gardens.
Map: Snowdonia
Google map for Snowdonia.
My Volunteering
Web parts for My Volunteering.
Donate
Give us money. Please.
Web Fonts
Some important information about web fonts. It's all about the license agreement, see.
Quarry Bank Mill menu
Static code widget for the Quarry Bank Mill appeal pages.
Fine Farm Produce Video
An end-of-term project put together by the (Digital) Design Team for 2013's Fine Farm Produce Awards.
Web: Love my outdoors activity map
Love my activities. Love my outdoors. Love life.

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