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Organizations Involved

Kharkiv2day is one of the biggest online news portals dedicated to bringing the latest updates for the Kharkiv region.

About the project

Up-to-date design and user-friendly interface are crucial for each web platform, especially for new portals, as they want users to stay as long as possible.

Kharkiv2day asked us to redesign their web platform and make the user experience more comfortable so they can smoothly glide through thousands of articles.

Challenges

  • Implement up-to-date design and more relevant UI/UX 
  • Improve security
  • Enhance stability and resiliency
  • Add multilingual capabilities
  • Ensure seamless content delivery to various news aggregators
  • Integrate social media

Technologies

Drupal
Thunder

Solution

Our team fulfilled a migration from WordPress to Drupal 8 and integrated Thunder CMS to make the lives of editors easier. Along with stakeholders, they can now experience handy content management with such features:

  • Publishing schedule for the content;
  • Mobile-friendly software that has responsive frontend and backend themes;
  • Dynamic content with movable paragraphs, video, and social media cards;
  • Preview mode, allowing you to get an idea of your article’s outlook;
  • Easier media handling when uploading photos or videos to an article, requiring less preparation;
  • Possibility to create a strategic plan for web media;
  • Possibility to develop own design from scratch;
  • Integration with Facebook and Google AMP;
  • Extended publishing community that supports contribution and sharing between members.
  • The website is now much more secure thanks to the latest Drupal installation and owners can rely on its stability and resiliency. 
  • Multimedia capabilities are now much more diverse and users can interact with the platform by using social media integration.

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Project Features

The website is now much more secure thanks to the latest Drupal installation. Owners can rely on its stability and resiliency.Multimedia capabilities are now much more diverse, and users can interact with the platform using social media integration.

  • Implement up-to-date design and more relevant UI/UX
  • Content delivery to various news aggregators
  • Enhanced stability and resiliency
  • Multilingual capabilities
  • Security upgrade
  • Social media integration

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Why Drupal was chosen

TheThe existing WordPress platform didn't meet the company’s goals, so it was decided to choose Drupal 8 and integrate Thunder CMS

Technical Specifications

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