The Asia Pacific Foundation hired Tidal to overhaul their website to better share large documents and integrate social networking. Tidal created a Drupal-based site with over 15,000 pages of growing content that is easy for staff to manage and users to access. When new content is added, Facebook and Twitter accounts are automatically updated. The Foundation's president praised Tidal for their innovative strategy, comprehensive recommendations, and creation of an engaging site that showcases the Foundation's work through logical content grouping and a powerful search function.

1. Asia Pacific Foundation
Project Type: Website
Challenge
The Asia Pacific Foundation is an independent not-for-profit think-tank on Canada’s relations
with Asia, and asked Tidal to overhaul their website, which included large scale document
sharing and integration of social networking.
Results
 Over 15,000 pages of content and growing – the web site is rapidly growing in size. On a
daily basis new content is being added to the site by both staff and the general public.
 Easy to use content management system – the Asia Pacific Foundation has over 10
different non-technical staff who are able to login and make changes to content without
any difficulty. The site was developed on a Drupal platform.
 Social Networking integration – when new content is added to the site the Facebook
and Twitter accounts are automaticall.
Testimonial
“The staff at Tidal provided the Foundation with a clear and innovative strategy to redesign,
rebuild and upgrade our website. They offered comprehensive recommendations on how to
make the wide range of material that we have available on our very large site, more easily

2. accessible to our audience through logical grouping of our content and installation of a
powerful new search function.
Tidal created a Drupal site that is easy for staff to maintain and users to access. With their in-
depth knowledge of the latest advancements in website design and strategy and social media,
they helped the Foundation make the best use of recent technical developments.
The project staff at Tidal were helpful and easy to work with, sharing their knowledge and
patiently explaining the solutions they were adopting to a variety of inherited problems with
our site.
By incorporating an engaging new design, user-friendly navigation and interactive functions,
Tidal created a website that showcases the best that the Foundation has to offer – a site that is
befitting our role as a think-tank on Canada-Asia relations.”
Yuen Pau Woo
President and CEO
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada