Center for the Study of Law and Religion

Project Details

In January 2009, Cast Iron Coding began the process of redesigning the Center's site, a project that was funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The goal of the grant was to "to make the CSLR's 20 years of research on religion and human rights available to activists, public policy leaders, and media experts." In other words, the project goal was to completely rethink and strengthen the ways in which the Center communicates its work to the public. One component of that project was to redesign the Center's site.

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

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Features

• User-friendly, modern and clean design that showcases featured content and leaves room for related information
• Cast Iron Coding worked with the Center's IT staff to facilitate the import of current database records into the new database structure
• The site navigation is hierarchical, but users are also able to navigate topically, from person, to publication, to project, to event, inviting the user to explore without losing the ability to quickly locate information

Services Provided

• Content Migration

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

• Design

  Wireframes and information design

• Development

  Front-end and backend development, rich user interfaces, standards-compliant code

• Discovery

  Peer analysis and project planning

• Quality Assurance

  Extensive browser testing and functionality testing

Technologies Employed

• TYPO3

  Open source, enterprise content management system