Rebekah Ford

Interactive Designer & Developer

ENO Mini Operas

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I was approached by the English National Opera's learning department Baylis, about designing and building a very interesting project in their search for new operatic talent. It was to be a worldwide search in the form of three competitions. Each one would determine the content for the next, a bit like a game of consequences. The first competition was for script writing, the 10 winners' scripts would be the basis of the second competition, the ...

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ENO Opera Squad

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English National Opera approached me again to design and build a learning tool primarily for 16-18 year olds and also anyone older who may want to learn about the elements of music. I took over this project from a previous design and development company who did complete the project so it was another project that needed to be completed to a tight deadline. The design and code of this site presented several obstacles and challenges, namely the ...

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Dean Rodney Singers

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I was asked by HeartnSoul to transfer over the Dean Rodney Singers Posterous site to a Tumblr site. This involved several template changes though the systems are similar. I also transferred the Dean Rodney Singers domain name plus I added several new social links and a fixed postion Cultural Olympiad image at the bottom of the ...

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ROH Ninette de Valois

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The Royal Opera House asked me to rebuild a project that had faltered and was thus under a tight schedule. It used a lot of jQuery styling. The previous developer had started to build a content management system from scratch. I realised that this could be fitted over a Wordpress framework. There were several obstacles to this build and these were mostly how to make this project work well for the Lowry Museum's touchscreen displays which ran on ...

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ROH iTunesU

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I worked on a project for the Royal Opera House upgrading their iTunesU channel to the new iTunesU templating and reassessing and recording a lot of audio assets for the site. I also supplied the ROH team with documentation to help them maintain the site after I had finished. The structure was XML files and amazon S3 ...

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Saatchi & Saatchi

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I worked on a contract for Saatchi & Saatchi as a project manager rolling out and improving their in-house content management system across their many sites worldwide. I wrote a training manual and coached various teams worldwide in the use of the ...

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