As Drupal plays an increasingly important role in providing solutions for what our clients require, I thought I would follow the development of the Advice NI Drupal site we are working on at the minute.
Advice NI (Northern Ireland) is a membership organisation that promotes, supports and develops the independent advice sector across Northern Ireland. They are an established training provider and offer online learning courses via a Moodle site.
Advice NI now have need for a site focusing on older person rights in Northern Ireland, with two parts to the site:
- one part for seniors over 60
- the other for those who work with the older people (advisors / social workers / volunteers / carers)
Because of this the website will need to be two-tiered:
- the back-end will exist as an essential tool for those who work with older people
- the front-end will be designed as an easy to use reference for the over 60’s
All things considered Advice NI concluded they needed a site with the following functionality
- Online Payment System
- Blogs
- RSS feeds
- Podcasting
- Newsletters
- Activities / Quizzes
- Social Networking, Bookmarks, Voice Chat and Message Boards
- Subscriptions
- Glossary and Search Functions
- Feedback Form and Help Section
- Banners
- News and Announcements
All these functions are available in Drupal’s core code and as modules or plugins, so the Content Management System (CMS) emerged as the obvious choice.
Decision made, time to get down to business…coming up in the next post!
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