Carnegie Corporation of New York

Project Details

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Cast Iron Coding completely redesigned and rebuilt Carnegie Corporation of New York's public-facing web site. Cast Iron Coding was responsible for all aspects of the project including discovery, peer analysis, persona development, and planning; managing the design team and overseeing the production of wire-frames and comps; engineering the front-end and back-end of the site; and on-site training of Corporation staff.

Frontend Designer: Cast Iron Coding
Backend Developer: Cast Iron Coding

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Features

• Well-designed user interface built around the needs of carefully designed user personas
• AJAX-driven grants database containing over ten thousand grants and AJAX-driven publication database
• Custom models specific to the Corporation's business domain including staff, grants, programs, articles, publications, and more

Services Provided

• Content Migration

  Careful, managed migration of content from legacy site to new site

• Design

  Wireframes and information design

• Discovery

  Peer analysis and project planning

• Quality Assurance

  Extensive browser testing and functionality testing

Technologies Employed

• TYPO3

  Open source, enterprise content management system