InfoBeans Case Study on Content Management using Drupal for the publishing industry

Case Study CAD Tips Wiki development on Drupal having a mix of Web2.0 and CMS features. CAD Tips www.infobeans.com

Agenda

Highlights

The Business Need

The Technology Need

Business Solution

Technology Solution

Team structure

Results

Highlights

Extensive experience on popular Wiki tools like MediaWiki, Confluence and Drupal

Requirements were a mix of CMS + Wiki + Web 2.0 features

Migration of huge amount of data from MDB to Drupal

Making content fully searchable by external search engines

Continuous and frequent changes in design based on feedback from client

Active consulting with client on features, user interface, usability and overall success of the CAD Tips site

Drupal 6.2, MySQL

InfoBeans’ commitment to high quality and on time delivery of the project

The Business Need

Build a “CAD Tips” wiki from Cadalyst Microsoft Access Tips database and library of Hot Tip Harry columns

Establish Cadalyst as the place to find CAD programming code on the web

Improve the frequency of same-person visits to “CAD Tips”

1700+ odd tips were distinguished just on the basis on Topic and it needed better ways to classify and categorize them

Make Tip search powerful enough to help drive traffic

External Search Engines could not index the bundled tip code files

Existing site lacked Web 2.0 features like comments , rating etc and was not conducive to audience engagement

The Technology Need

Making the tips searchable and index-able via Google and other search engines was critical to success for the client

System did not have enough support for metadata without which search engine optimization was impossible

Highly useful tips could not be downloaded individually

Increase traffic on the site. Single-access users would likely browse additional pages; new users would find the site via SEO

A clean, simple and intuitive user interface had to be built.

Client did not have a good idea of UI design issues, so needed inputs from InfoBeans

Business Solution

UI of Tips was aligned with the look and feel of the main site

For site stickiness, related tips functionality was built

Tips were categorized and made searchable based on various parameters and internal search was made very powerful.

Enabled users to add tweaked version of the tip along with their comments

High priority new feature requests were implemented after quick Proofs of Concept (PoCs)

To facilitate agile development via daily status calls and biweekly server builds

Technology Solution

Implemented Drupal 6.2 modules for Web2.0 + CMS + Wiki like features and MySQL

Wrote smart scripts to migrate excel data to Drupal and map source fields to destination fields as the new schema was very different from the old schema.

Implemented CAPTCHA to prevent spam and malicious software

Highly secure system to prevent cross site scripting and SQL injection attacks

Team structure Role Responsibilities Experience and skills Location Project Manager Requirements Analysis, Communication, Co-ordination, Project Scoping and Management 4 years development & project management experience US East coast Project lead Leading the team, establishing priorities and regular status updates 8 years - Drupal,.NET, MySQL and Web Technologies India Developer 1 User Interface 4 years - .NET, Flex, AJAX India Developer 2,3,4 Application, database and deployment 3 years - Web technologies, Drupal CMS, MySQL India QA 1,2 Automated testing, load testing, black box and white box testing 3 years with various QA testing tools India QA3 Black box and functional testing 1 year with various QA testing tools India

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