60 Sites in 60 Days
Our brief was simple, working as part of a team we had 60 days to migrate 50 Local Government websites from the clients old Content Management System (CMS) into the newly selected Plone CMS while also building an additional 10 new websites.
As Digital Trends boasts the most experienced Plone and Zope resources in the Country, we were brought in to lead the development and integration of the sites using a series of Council specific base products and content templates. This solution provides each member Council with a sophisticated, yet easy to use website CMS that matched and improved their existing functionality while making it much easier to use.
An important aspect of the Plone / Zope solution was the creation of the Graphic Display Framework, this framework provided the clients with a base set of customizable layouts that allowed them to not only keep their existing look and feel but also manipulate presentation items such as the navigation placement, news and events portlets and font/heading sizes quickly and easily through editing the online base properties form.
Digital Trends understood that it was imperative that allthough this was a mass migration, each client Council needed to be treated and assisted as individuals and hence developed features to allow the customers to keep and build on their individuality.
Due to Plone and Zope's intuitive design, highly functional feature set and over robustness the Digital Trends team was able to meet all it's clients requirements and assist them in meeting the 60 sites in 60 days task..
Digital Trends would like to thank all those at the Western Australian Local Government Association and Linking Councils & Communities program for both the opportunity and their continuous professionalism while working on this project.
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