Project archive: Education
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Hachette Schools
Hachette Schools brings pupils, teachers and librarians closer to brilliant Hachette Children’s Group books and authors.
Their extensive list of titles ranges from fantastic non-fiction that supports the curriculum, to well-loved authors including Cressida Cowell, Kes Gray, David Almond, Patrice Lawrence, Dermot O’Leary, Francesca Simon, Matthew Syed.
The site allows visitors to discover a wealth of free resources for new and well-loved books, specially written to support the curriculum and encourage discussion in the classroom or library, and hear about all the latest news and competitions.
Scion Publishing
Scion Publishing Ltd was established in 2003 to publish high quality and innovative medical and life science books for students. It is still run day-to-day by its founders. Their new e-commerce website was created alongside that for their sister company, Lantern Publishing.
Lantern Publishing
Lantern was formed in June 2011 with the aim of publishing innovative and readable books for nursing, health and social care. Their new e-commerce website was created alongside that for their sister company, Scion Publishing.
SmartLab Toys
Since 2004, SmartLab Toys’ STEAM products have earned more than 50 of the toy industry’s most prestigious awards, including multiple Oppenheim Platinum awards and the Good Housekeeping Best Toy awards. Now part of the Quarto Group, their passion is creating toys and games that inspire creative thinking while providing opportunities for children and adults to learn and play together.
Mac Keith Press
Mac Keith Press was founded by Ronnie Mac Keith in 1959 to improve the lives of disabled children, their families and carers by extending the knowledge and understanding of the fields of developmental medicine and paediatric neurology. They are an independent, registered charity and funded by the sale of their publications.
Mac Keith Press were already using WordPress and WooCommerce but we created a new website design and a new architecture to streamline the organisation of their core book information. We also integrated WooCommerce with Moodle, allowing users to purchase online learning enrolments from the shop, alongside books and ebooks.
“Simon’s approach at Bookswarm is wonderfully supportive, friendly, and helpful. He guided us through the initial design, development and implementation stages of our website, and is now working brilliantly with us on its continued use and expansion: helping us build a great online presence and explore innovative new projects. He is always responsive and understanding of our publishing needs, and is highly recommended.”
Ann-Marie Halligan, Managing Director, Mac Keith Press
Revise SQE
Revise SQE books have one purpose in mind – helping students pass the new SQE1 law exam. They focus only on the topics you’ll be assessed on, making sure that you don’t spend time on unnecessary subject matter, and they will prepare students for the multiple-choice questions they’ll face in SQE1 and show how to answer them successfully.
“Right from the very first phone conversation I felt I had an ally in Simon. He wanted to understand what we were about, how our market worked, what the priorities were, how quickly we wanted to be up and running, and he created a plan to deliver it on time and cost-effectively. Once we were underway progress was good, and the Bookswarm team were helpful and responsive, happy to engage in robust debate about design and functionality. The finished product is excellent and has been extremely well received by authors and prospective customers. Highly recommended!”
Jonathan Harris, Director, Fink Publishing
Illuminate Publishing
Illuminate are an award-winning independent publisher of high-quality, inspirational teaching and learning resources. They publish across a wide range of secondary subjects – academic and vocational.
We created a new, WooCommerce-based web shop for Illuminate to replace their old Zencart-based web presence.
“We are absolutely over the moon with our new website! It really is fantastic. A huge thanks to for all the time, effort and creativity that has gone into making this happen for us. It’s a fabulous showcase for our publishing, and just what we hoped for.”
Rick Jackman, Director and Co-owner at Illuminate Publishing
Daisy Christodoulou
Author website for Daisy Christodoulou, the Director of Education at No More Marking, a provider of online Comparative Judgement software for schools, and the author of three books about education: Teachers vs Tech, Making Good Progress, and Seven Myths about Education.
“Simon and his team designed a website that did everything I wanted it to, plus some more things I hadn’t thought of! They got back very quickly to all my queries and the whole process was very smooth and speedy.”
Daisy Christodoulou, author and educationalist
Handspring Publishing
Handspring publish professional-level books for bodyworkers, movement teachers and all professionals who use movement or touch to help patients achieve wellness.
We designed and built a new theme for Handspring using Divi, using the underlying structure created by the original developers.
Moonlight Publishing
Moonlight Publishing is a small company specialising in information books for children aged 4 to 12. Their books nurture children’s curiosity about the world around them. Each book explores one particular aspect of human experience with children: the human body, animals, plants, science, geography, transport, music, art and history.
This new WooCommerce-based website allows visitors to explore titles by series, theme and target age-range, and explains how Moonlight’s Talking Books work.
“Simon was highly organized and responsive throughout the process of building our new website. I felt he understood our needs very well and was helpful and encouraging in guiding us through the different stages of the process, making it all very easy. He was also flexible in responding changing timelines. We are delighted with the results!”
James Clement, Managing Director, Moonlight Publishing
Trauma-Sensitive Early Education
Microsite for a new book by Matthew S. Bennett, written with his wife Sarah Bennett – expanding Matthew’s expertise in trauma-informed care to an education setting.
“Simon and his group have a great system for authors to express their creativity and passion through their website. If you are an author in need of a site to highlight your writing and other work, Simon is the right guy for you!”
Matthew S. Bennett, speaker, trainer, author
The Marketing Alliance
The Marketing Alliance is a small marketing agency specialising in publishing, education and EdTech, founded and run by Julia Garvey.
“Before I commissioned Bookswarm to build my new website I was toying with doing it myself, after all I’m familiar with WordPress and I wanted something clean and simple.
If you are in the same position as this, then I urge you not to DIY. Simon and his team took my ideas and made them a reality quickly, efficiently and far better than I would have been able to. They enabled me to get on with my job while creating a site that is professional and of a very high standard. I also discovered that just because something looks simple, doesn’t mean it is easy to create – Bookswarm added a level of sophistication to the functionality that would not otherwise be available to me. I found the whole team efficient, friendly and approachable and I am delighted with the end result.”
Julia Garvey, founder, the marketing alliance
Chinese With Mike
We took over the existing design and reworked it to use the WordPress Content Management System (CMS), as well as implementing a series of content updates.
Oxford Edit Write
Oxford Edit Write offers a range of editorial services to authors and publishers, specialising in the educational sector and trade books for children.
Whether you’re an author or a publishing company, they can support you at any stage or all the way – from concept proposals and commissioning right through to proofreading. With expert project management and a friendly, efficient approach, their goal is to see your projects come to life.
“Simon and his colleagues at Bookswarm were fantastic when building a website for my freelance editorial business. They were knowledgeable, expert and professional in a real, human, warm and patient kind of way. Bookswarm know exactly what they are doing, they do it brilliantly and so I was able to get on with doing my ‘thing’. Use them… you’ll live happily ever after!”
Lynne Humphreys, Publisher, Oxford Edit Write
Connecting Paradigms
Website for speaker, trainer, and author of Connecting Paradigms
“Simon and his group have a great system for authors to express their creativity and passion through their website. If you are an author in need of a site to highlight your writing and other work, Simon is the right guy for you!”
Matthew S. Bennett, speaker, trainer, author
The Future Bookshelf
A home on the web for Hodder & Stoughton’s range of books for writers – including a fully content-managed home page feature the client can update each month.
Get Coding!
Get Coding! is the essential guide to coding for kids from the expert coding community Young Rewired State. The book helps kids learn how to write code and then build their own website, app and game using the programming languages HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The website we built to accompany the book provides every piece of code they need to complete their missions.
“I really enjoyed working with Bookswarm. Kjell was great at explaining how the website would be designed and built, and was very helpful throughout the entire process. We’re really pleased with the end result. Thanks, Bookswarm!”
Daisy Jellicoe, Editor, Walker Books
Christopherus Homeschool Resources
WooCommerce-based site for Christopher, specialist educational publisher of Waldorf-inspired parenting and education materials and resources.
