Design firm:
Bainbridge Studios Center for Democracy and Technology
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) needed to upgrade, re-organize, and redesign its site to enhance online engagement using a more powerful CMS. Goals included making content easy to upload, create, find, and read, allow multiple user permissions to enable delegation of highly simplified website administration, and a platform that can scale and continue to serve CDT and its users. It chose Drupal and Advomatic.
Challenges & Needs
CDT needed guidance on developing a new information architecture and consulting on wire frame development. They needed implementation of designs into an original Drupal theme and development of the site. The scope of the project also included content migration of approximately 500 HTML / php pages from the legacy CDT site, including varying file formats and the mix of static content, import from a WordPress blog into Drupal and compliance with CDT's requirement to operate the site in a privacy-protective manner, which included a no-cookie policy.
Solution
During Phase 1, Technical Planning and Discovery, Advomatic's strategists audited CDT's online tools, pages, organized their content types, major category taxonomies, user permissioning requirements and put together a plan for new media functionality. This phase, including the social web components, included extensive research regarding CDT's internal systems capacities, face-to-face meetings, and interviews with staff.
During Phase 2, Advomatic's strategists worked with CDT and their design firm to build an original design. Technical input was provided by Advomatic's development team.
In Phase 3, Technology Development, the project was transitioned to Advomatic's development team to configure and build the Drupal site, migrate legacy data, and convert the designs into an original theme. Major development tasks included: create and configure content types and taxonomy, develop homepage, index pages, content pages, blocks, configure custom permissions, roles and workflow, blog development, social media networking integration and content migration.
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