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Case Study: Town of St. John, IN | |
| Challenge | Town of St. John is one of the fastest growing communities in Indiana. The Town's website was adequate but very static in nature. Also, the Town did not have the expertise nor time to enhance the website to meet their growing needs. |
| Solution | After spending some time with the members of Town's
council, we got pretty good idea on what they wanted. The Town desired
an esthetically pleasing and well organized website which was easy to
maintain by individual departments. Also, being a well-planned community
with a 25 year master plan, they wanted something that was scalable and
not easily outgrown. They had plans for ecommerce applications in the
near future.
We developed a quick prototype using NGSPortal and once the Town accepted the website's layout, we set out to work with each department to gather their special content requirements. After the department needs assessment, we concluded that it was time to put our CMS Component to the test. It was the first large installation where NGSPortal was paired up with OpenCMS and the two passed the test with flying colors. One of the most attractive features of the website is the Town's impressive park's portfolio. Our creative people photographed over 20 parks and organized the images into picture galleries. The resulting solution empowered each department to maintain their own content and yet provided centralized control over the published content. Due to the advanced features of the website, user training took an extra effort but, in the end, the Town was pleased with the end result. |
| Website URL | http://www.stjohnin.com |
| BEFORE | AFTER |
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