FamilyEducation Network - One of the biggest online parenting portals in the United States
FamilyEducation.com has been the longest standing parenting website with over 10 million page views per month and 2 million newsletter subscribers. It aims at making life easy for busy parents by helping them raise happy, healthy, and engaged children at every stage. Millions of parents have gained trusted advice on almost everything ranging from information on pregnancy preparation to raising teens and all the stages in between. It provides latest news and information about child health, coolest toys, homework aid, constructive media, and various other products with a strong focus on learning through play.
About the project
The Goal
- Family Education had a flash based website previously which was not user-friendly and required a minimum of seven to eight clicks to access any required information.
- Family Education was running on a 20-year old custom CMS had a lot of restrictions and a very poor user experience.
- FamilyEducation desired to design & build a web content management system to provide a superior authoring experience to product managers, speed up the content delivery, and provide contextual and high quality content to end users.
- It also required migrating huge amounts of data from a legacy Content Management System to Drupal 8.
Key Approach & Features
- We did a website audit to design the building blocks of the entire platform
- UX team architected user flows & journey after extensive research
Solution and Results
- Reduced the number of clicks from 7-8 in the earlier site to 3-4 to access any information or content on the website
- Migrated from a 20-year old custom CMS platform to Drupal 8 without losing any data, metadata, etc. Deployed the application on Acquia cloud
- Created well-structured categories for filtering and showcasing data
- Provided an intuitive admin console for faster and simplified access to required information
Why Drupal was chosen
TO THE NEW did a website audit to design the building blocks of the entire platform and the UX team architected user flows & journey after extensive research. Drupal 8 was chosen as it is one of the most comprehensive CMS systems available. Some more motivations behind considering Drupal 8 were:
- Drupal 8 is highly efficient CMS and it helped to reduce the number of clicks from 7-8 to 3-4 to access any information or content on the website.
- By using Drupal 8 we migrated from a 20-year old custom CMS platform without losing any data, metadata, etc. and successfully created well-structured categories for filtering and showcasing data.
- Provided an intuitive admin console for faster and simplified access to required information
- Quick and easy page management – Any approved user can quickly and easily publish web pages without complicated software or programming.
- Consistent brand and navigation – Design templates provide a consistent brand image and standard navigation across the website for the client.
- Workflow management – An integrated workflow process for reviewing and approving content before publishing it on the client website.
- Database-driven – Only need to change data once for it to be updated throughout the client website.
- Shared resources – Website managers have access to shared resources, such as modules, images, audio and video files, etc.
- Mobile ready – The CMS automatically scales the site to fit tablets, mobile devices, and smaller browser windows.
- Updates— The CMS allows alerts to be set to notify the editor when content needs to be reviewed, updated or removed.
Technical Specifications
Drupal version:
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
Memcache module that provides a comprehensive administrative overview of Drupal's interaction with Memcached and stats.Facebook Comment Block module allows users to comment using Facebook's commenting box with as little configuration as possible. It adds a new block "Facebook Comments" which acts as a Facebook commenting widget.
