Profile
Reform is a UK based independent, charitable, non-party think tank whose mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity.
Reform’s aim is to produce research of outstanding quality on the core issues of the economy, law and order, health, education and on the right balance between government and individual; and to communicate it to politicians and opinion formers in all parties in order to create a consensus for reform.
Site: http://www.reform.co.uk
Brief
Reform’s brief was very straight-forward: Clone our site into DNN.
Reform was satisfied with its existing site in terms of its appearance, content and structure. However the ability to update all areas of the site at will was missing. Therefore Reform reviewed the CMS options available and decided upon DNN.
Chord9 was subsequently briefed to recreate the existing site using DNN.
Solution
A table-free, fully CSS based skin package was developed exactly replicating the appearance of the existing PHP based site. Third party menu components were used to replicate the tab-style menus of the original site whilst maintaining excellent search engine transparency.
The major proportion of the site consists of several hundred policy articles and commentaries. These have been entered and organised using a flexible third party Articles module that allows each item to be categorised, searched and consistently formatted.
Contact and Donation forms were developed using a third party rapid application development module. The donation form was linked directly to RBS Worldpay for processing the donation transaction.