Case Study: The Roman Baths

(in 15 minutes)www.romanbaths.co.uk

● Won on open tender in collaboration with Torchbox (torchbox.com)

● Sites were previously built using the depreciated Immediacy CMS

● Wanted 5 sites with their own “look and feel”

● Better structure between sites and an improved User Experience

Project Overview

What problems did we face?

1. Client wanted 5 (6) websites within a fixed cost budget

2. Brief required automated migration of content

3. Each site has it’s own content editor(s) who had perception of “tech fear”

The Key Problems

Solution 1: Design and Workflow

● Design and Development covered all features/content types - Roman

Baths was built first

● Pantheon One - “The website management platform for Drupal sites” -

https://pantheon.io - custom distribution

● Features driven development - single SASS base theme

Design and Workflow

Solution 2: Enter GatherContent

“We're the content planning, production and workflow platform that helps agencies and marketing teams.”

● Create content types - add content - import to Drupal

● Pro’s: Easy to use, gives a good introduction to using Drupal content types

● Con’s: Has trouble dealing with non-simple fields, felt like it was in

development

● Ended up using it as a “halfway tool”

GatherContent

Solution 3: Don’t neglect the admin interface!“Drupal administration doesn’t have to be confusing!”

● Separate Entities from Nodes and build a simple admin view to include

DraggableViews (because the Entity interface is horrible!)

● Easy module wins - Adminimal theme, Adminimal menu, Administration

Views, CKEditor Link etc.

● Define your own CKEditor (WYSIWYG) styles and limit where necessary

● Limit permissions!

Admin Interface

Why did it go so well?

● In-browser design: "It looks just like the design!"

● Promote a healthy editorial team - welcome use of your phone number

● The “80/20 rule” and how to manage requests in a fixed cost project

● Last but not least - a great team!

Summarise

Thankyou!Rick Donohoe

rick@microserve.io