An Overture Partners Project Case Study
CREATING A NEW WEB SITE FOR A MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Challenge
A suburban/semi-rural school district in Southeastern Massachusetts was seeking to upgrade its district public web presence. Their current site was considered unappealing both visually and from a navigation perspective, the site architecture didn’t provide for a hierarchical folder structure to organize information intelligently, and they needed a site that could support two elementary schools, two middle schools, a regional high school, hundreds of teachers, a central office and school committee. In addition, the district requested that a district-wide Intranet also be included as part of the project.

Unique to this project was the task of providing full CMS to all teachers and staff so that they could construct their own individually stylized pages within the primary site architecture, with full control over layout, background, images, page order, etc.

The Solution
Overture Partners provided:

• User requirement analysis
• Visual user experience design
• Information management design
• Technical architecture design
• Complete site build, testing and launch

Key technical challenges of this project were:

• Choosing the right CMS which can be customized to meet the requirements.
• Multiple administrator roles
• File management for teachers
• Ability for teachers to drag and drop files in browser
• Permalink functionality for teacher pages

Key features deliverables include:

• Three administrative permissions levels for each of 5 schools
• Full CMS for content, layout, page backgrounds and page order
• Complete user management and administration
• New self-administered image galleries for each school
• Full page order management and administration
• Drag and Drop document upload management
• A 5 level deep self-managed folder hierarchy