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murrayw, marchudson, kelvinwong, andre.kakos, queenielow

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Community contributions

Morpht had previously built the Starter Theme for GovCMS. It is used as a starting point for many sites on the GovCMS platform. We continue to contribute back to the project when we can.

The site was used as the foundation for a DrupalGov 2020 presentation which was based on an editor friendly way to bulk upload media assets into Drupal.

DrupalGov2020: 200 documents in a single bulk upload

The Attorney-General’s Department delivers programs and policies to maintain and improve Australia's law and justice framework and provide legal services to the Commonwealth. The Department also facilitates job growth through policies that promote fair, productive, flexible and safe workplaces. 

The Department manages a large portfolio of websites to support its operations all while supporting the web publishing of all active Royal Commissions.

Morpht was appointed to redesign and develop five of the these websites, four of which required content migration from Sharepoint to GovCMS.

Working with the Digital Applications section, we developed and nurtured a highly integrated and collaborative partnership.

About the project

Restructuring of site content following a human-centred design approach

With a firm understanding of the audience personas, their informational needs and jobs to be done we conducted a deep analysis of the site structure and content and weighed that up against the Department’s objectives and publishing needs. 

We examined the content types and mapped out a user experience that relies on structured content to help surface information in the right context within the relevant section of the website. 

The new website architecture supports 8 distinct sections - each section behaving like a ‘site within a site’. The user flow is guided through a landing page - presented as a homepage for each section - where the user can explore the most popular content, factsheets and forms as well as navigate to deeper pages.

Knowing that the current site users relied on Google Search to find publications and forms on the site, we designed nine publication libraries - one for each section of the site. Users now can focus their efforts within the right section of the site and narrow their search down by filtering results using 'facets' to drill down by topic and document types. 

Making web development Convivial

We jump started the build by installing Convivial. This is Morpht’s custom built Drupal 8 distribution that adopts the DTA’s Digital Design System and turbo-charges it with a set of content components and layout modifiers. The site editor is then equipped with a variety of tools to zoom through the build of dynamic sites. 

The build included amongst other things:

  1. 19 content types and subtypes
  2. 8 page layouts
  3. More than 6,000 pages
  4. 9 document libraries with faceted search
  5. HTML navigable books
  6. Site sections with custom header photography

Convivial is Morpht’s custom built Drupal 8 distribution that adopts DTA’s Design System and turbo-charges it with a set of content components and layout modifiers. Update your capabilities with Convivial

Moving house

Content migration doesn’t have to be a neck-breaking chore when you’ve got access to the right expertise. We partnered with a specialist group, Systemik Solutions, who have more than a decade of experience in content migration for public sector websites. They used a SaaS tool, PerformX Content Workbench, which was specifically developed to migrate sites to the GovCMS platform. PerformX supports an iterative mapping and migration methodology that synchronises with Agile development sprints to minimise any necessity to freeze content maintenance. 

In collaboration with AGD stakeholders, we designed a multi-step process of discovery, analysis, definition, test and final migration. The 6,000 documents 1,200 pages needed to be classified by site section, document types and topics to help users navigate to them and find them using faceted searches across the site.

We conducted a multi-tiered exercise in mapping:

  • Old pages structured to fit into new layouts;
  • Duplicate files with different formats into a new model of one publication page with downloads;
  • Pages and publications into different site section, assigning topics and document types to them;
  • Redirecting thousands of unique URLs to new URL structures.

Why Drupal was chosen

The Department website had been slated for a design update for a few years as it was starting to outgrow its structure and capability. Boasting more than 1,200 pages and in excess of 6,000 documents relating to eight distinct site sections, the need to migrate to a more scalable platform as that found in GovCMS had become pressing. 

Technical Specifications

Drupal version:

Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen

GovCMS8 is a distibution used by the Australian Government.

The Starter Theme is an implementation of the Australian Government Design System into GovCMS. 

The Modifiers and Entity Class Formatter modules provide editor friendly tools so that editors can create beutifu but compliant pages.