damien aistrope — digital design and development

new monster children
Monday 1st August 2011

New version of Monster Children is now live. This is now the third incarnation I have produced for the guys since 2006 which is pretty cool to still look after them after all this time. Apart from just being a standard refresh the guys wanted it to be much easier to update to give the site more activity. In fact, the brief was to make it as easy as Facebook (as that is where Campbell seems to spend most of his time). We built a front end CMS that does just that for their news content, they can jump in and in a few simple fields have the ability to post content within seconds. This was a custom module developed for the Silverstripe platform that also includes the ability to edit or make feature of other contributors posts on the front end. The team still does have the ability to manage everything in the traditional CMS that Silverstripe provides including another custom shopping cart module to bring everything over to just the one admin system. Take a look at the new site here. Lots of other neat features to be found: http://www.monsterchildren.com