Powerful, focussed, efficient. A force for nature.

I led development of the Rewilding Britain website during my time as Lead Developer at Kind, creating a brand new Craft CMS site to replace their Squarespace site, and making regular improvements, additions, and updates over the next 4 years.

Regularly featured in national news stories, or mentioned on radio, it was essential that the site was able to cope gracefully with large, often unpredictable, influxes of traffic.

And built to scale

Every component was carefully optimised during development to ensure they were as fast, and efficient as possible, and The Rewilding Britain website was comfortably able to handle tens of thousands of simultaneous connections, serving millions of visitors every month.

Multiple user groups, with finely-grained permissions, allowed the Rewilding Britain team to enforce a robust editorial workflow. 

Certain CMS users were able to create pages, but not publish them. Other users were assigned as ​“Editors” and were able to check, approve, and publish content to ensure editorial oversight before publication. This coupled with Craft’s revisions and versioning abilities allowed a fully auditable, yet robust approach to content management.

Rewilding Britain have a lot of content, and a number of specialised layouts. This meant it was essential to identify the logical way to tie these various elements together, in a way that made sense to all CMS users.