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A joint project between Bristol City, South Gloucestershire and Bath & North East Somerset Councils, 1 Big Database is the leading online resource of information for families and the community throughout the West of England.

For the past few months our design and development teams have been working on a whole series of improvements, including:

          --> Search enhancements, including a single search for the directory and events; postcode lookup and auto completion of search terms.

          --> Introduction of results weighting to optimise the relevancy of search results by giving priority to some fields in the database when a search is carried out – such as organisation name.

One of the major improvements is that the system is now set up to accommodate a daily feed of information from Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire to the Parent Know How Directory. It will also provide local users with the facility to search 1BD and the national directory simultaneously.

"We have been working with Focus New Media for about 4 years now and the team always provide us with a creative, responsive and incredibly competent service. Attention to detail is a priority for them and explaining complex processes in non technical speak a skill they all seem to possess.. We have all been working on a large project recently and because of the Team's ability to research, plan and deliver it's success has been seamless. The Focus New Media team are flexible, informed and a pleasure to work with."

Jackie Fielder
Family Information Service Manager
Bath and North East Somerset Council

Read more about 1Big Database developments here.