NUCA is a dynamic, modern and creative community providing a wide range of art, design and media education for both national and international students.

The new website supports a complete rebrand for NUCA (formerly Norwich School of Art and Design) and coincides with the end of its first year with full degree-awarding powers.

After a detailed review of their requirements, we developed the new website using a flexible and well supported open source Content Management System (CMS) Joomla 1.5.

To ensure a smooth, cost effective and expedient delivery we made full use of the extensive range of standard modules that form a large part of the Joomla CMS - some of which we customised/extended to better suit NUCA's requirements.

NUCA's David Girling Comments:

" We asked Soak to build a 100% content managed site using 3rd party php software working with templates designed by our branding agency, hat-trick design. We have been extremely impressed with their professionalism, advice and attention to detail. They have delivered the project on time and to budget in a very short timescale. We have subsequently appointed them for online marketing support and look forward to working with them in the future."

The research house expects online sales to grow by 6% a year from its current level of £37bn as consumer spending continues to shift online.

According to the research, which is due out later today, fashion was the fastest growing area of online retail during 2008. Books, DVDs and travel were the most frequently bought items over the period.

The Forrester research, which places the UK's online spend ahead of that in France and Germany, expects the number of UK online shoppers to grow from 30m this year to 37m by 2014

(Source NMA)