Cultivating tangible change
World Resources Institute
Situation: The World Resources Institute’s EMBARQ program helps municipal governments create sustainable transportation in their cities. EMBARQ works on projects in a dozen cities around the world and has established five regional Centers for Sustainable Transport on four different continents. Its audience is truly global, and the program is actively building new relationships with city planners, managers, and other transportation stakeholders in new cities.
EMBARQ’s team approached us to develop a website for them in four languages. They also wanted to build a tool to create an online presence for their five centers and equip staff with easy-to-use communications tools that would allow them to interact with regional audiences in local languages.
Solution: For this project (launching in October 2008), we built two multilingual websites – a complex one that could make use of the full internationalization toolset and feature EMBARQ’s original video and photo content, and a very simple one with basic content types that could be translated into any language. The complex site will serve as the main site for EMBARQ and will have an active management team of three people plus a staff of translators available to maintain it.
intranet, strategy, design, website development, technical training, Drupal capacity building, Managing News
Work
intranet, strategy, design, website development, technical training, Drupal capacity building, Managing News
Strategy Focus
WRI.org Redesign Launches Using Context UI
Mapping Real World Information Architecture to Sections within Drupal with Context UI
Mapping Real World Information Architecture to Sections within Drupal with Context UI
Our redesign of World Resources Institute’s main website just launched and we saved considerable configuration time implementing the design with Context UI. Here are four screenshots to show you how Context UI can take a smart information architecture and simply map it to a Drupal site.
In the first screenshot, you can see the architecture and design we built. In the second screen shot, you see how we mapped our IA to Drupal with context definitions. This is the admin/build/context page, which shows all the “sections” or “features” we defined for this Drupal site. In the third screenshot, you get a sense of the specific definitions on the news page. This shows you the the bundles of views, content types, panels, menu items, and blocks. Lastly on the 4th screenshot, you see how those definitions mapped to the main news page.
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