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Political Lobbying & Media Relations
PLMR approached us to design a unique site, simple but slick. They wanted the site to be updated regularly through use of a blog but also a news feed - subscribable by RSS feed. It needed to be simple enough to use in the back-end so that any of the employees of PLMR could log in and amend it as required, whilst also maintaining enough security in the back-end to ensure nothing could be changed or deleted accidentally. This meant a permissions setup with some administrators and general employees.
The design was to be clear, clean whilst maintaining it’s own identity. We integrated the brand itself into the design through the use of the four PLMR colours. We designed each page depending on the specific needs of the page. Photography was edited to ensure the images had a strong impact and consistent appearance.
Many competitors’ sites seemed to come across in quite an ‘unfriendly’ ‘difficult to use’ way - it was paramount it was neither of these things.
The Sectors and Services runs from a system mixed between categories and entries. All of the about section also runs from just one entry system - with conditional statements deciding exactly where it should be placed depending on the category or even if there is no category.
For Case Studies and the international section we spiced this up with a tiny bit of jquery to solve the problem of differing case study lengths and useability.
In the Blog section we were tasked with enabling blog searches by author, as well as author specific RSS subscriptions. Requiring conditionals based on author ids deciding what is in the feed and equally what is shown when on an ‘author’ page.
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EricMartin
12/21 at 01:13 AM
I am currently working on one of Aaron DelSignore‘s sites and I am considering using ExpressionEngine as a content management system. After seeing the Political Lobbying & Media Relations site, I am convinced that EE is really a powerful tool that’s worth learning more about.
annie bexton
02/20 at 04:14 AM
I could really use some news feed from a political lobbying and media relations specialized website. On my master of management online program that I am taking, I have to fulfill many group and individual project tasks regarding study cases on state organizations and private corporations, through a set of well established management concept criteria.
jillian
02/20 at 04:30 AM
I have been interested in the media and communications field ever since I started my human services degree online, last year. The point is you stumble upon this domain in every human services work domain and you need to at least know the basics of it. For instance, related to the review you provide up here, I must say I appreciate a good online platform of this kind. The point is, in order to build a quality one, you need to facilitate interaction between users and content editors, you need to find out what people need to learn about and, most of all, you need to enhance content and layout coherence by implementing accuracy among entries.
Myriam001
02/20 at 04:40 AM
During my educational technology masters degree, I worked as a freelance teacher for a tutoring wide online platform and by the experience I gathered there, I must tell you that it is extremely important for a website to work well and precise up to its very last detail. The major condition for performing quality work in the present online environment is simultaneity. We live in the era of high speed information. If a platform like this doesn`t have what it takes, it`s hard to succeed with it.
04/10 at 08:06 PM
I am wondering if there were two authors by the same name whether they can be assigned different “id cards” so that the user can further refine his search. If that is possible I think I will convince my company to switch to this platform.
Jeffrey
05/17 at 01:57 AM
I recently founded an association that promotes research support of history. To put in issue as many people possible about what exactly we do we had to buy a domain name. This was possible thanks to Aaron DelSignore , where I found both support and useful information.
