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The Council on Foundations is a nonprofit membership association that serves as a guide for philanthropies as they advance their distinct missions for addressing society’s most pressing challenges.
The Council engaged with Promet Source on a website redesign and a migration to Drupal 9. As the website serves as the primary channel for interacting with members, stakes were high for ensuring that the redesign furthered strategic objectives and reflected the value and benefits of membership.
The new Drupal 9 website has been extremely well-received for reasons that include greater visual engagement, brand alignment, and a flexible design system with components to accommodate for current and future needs.
Promet’s open source Provus 2.0 distribution for Drupal served as an overarching success factor in the efficient design and development of the new site.
About the project
Following a Discovery Workshop, key objectives for the new site were identified as:
- Align with the Council’s new branding;
- Support the 10-year strategic plan and vision;
- Provide streamlined navigation in alignment with the identified user journeys of key persona groups;
- Ensure quick answers to frequently asked questions;
- Make it easy for new members to join; and
- Ensure ADA accessibility.
The outcome was extremely well received by the client for reasons that included:
- The redesign leveraged the Council’s new brand, which created a more modern look and feel.
- More imagery was added to the site to create a more engaging user experience and reflect greater empathy for the membership.
- The information architecture was restructured to improve the navigation and user experience for the defined personas.
- To enhance the search speed and accuracy, a few different search views with custom sorting and filtering were implemented using Solr Search
Why Drupal was chosen
The Council's existing website was on Drupal 7. Drupal provided the flexibility and scalability to accommodate both current and future needs.
Technical Specifications
Drupal version:
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
- Provus pre-configured Drupal blocks or components, integrated with Layout Builder, to enable the creation of rich, full-featured landing pages for clients without any coding expertise
- Provus’ built-in modules – Layout Builder, Bootstrap Layout Builder, Views Bootstrap, Fullcalendar Views and Responsive Images – were leveraged to extend the site’s functionality.
- Provus’s simplified and streamlined content types and fields laid the groundwork for creation of migration scripts that ensured a seamless migration from Drupal 7 content to the Provus content types for the Drupal 9 site.
- To accommodate the migration of subsites from the Drupal 7 site, for which there is not a compatible Drupal 9 contributed module, Promet developers worked with existing Provus blocks, along with other contributed modules, to achieve the requested menu structure and styling for the subsites.
- Bootstrap and Responsive Images (both modules that are built into Provus) were leveraged to complement Drupal 9’s responsive design features, helping to wrap up theming for images quickly and effectively.
- Provus’s Advanced Fullcalendar View custom module helped developers to easily configure calendar functionality, such as creating multiple dates or recurring dates for events.
