About client
Our client is the publisher of Malaysia’s best-selling and award-winning business and investment weekly. They had a website for readers as well as content editors to view and publish the content for daily news. They wanted to revamp the website with a new look & feel that is appealing and is able to attract more visitors.
Challenge
Before Social DNA Labs offered the client its services, the biggest challenge that the client faced was to increases users, engagements as well as website performance. Stock exchange rates were required to be displayed dynamically. They also wanted to display the details of the content editors as well as journalists.
What did we observe?
- The existing website contained no proper user navigation.
- The improper website design resulted in ZERO users traffic
- The website was attacked multiple times by threatening malwares and server hacks.
- No dynamic data was available for stock exchange information.
- Latest news and event information were hardly updated.
How did we achieve it?
- Requirement Analysis & Project Plan: Analyzed the requirement collected from the client and drafted the project plan.
- Website Redesign: Preliminary as well as detail design specifications and template design defined for the home page and inner pages.
- Website Development & Data Migration: CMS Integration, data migration done from existing website, 3rd party integration, UAT.
- Testing: Unit Testing, Test Case Documents.
- Deployment: Project deployment on development, Staging, and production servers completed.
- Maintenance & Support: Feature enhancement and bug fixing done.
Execution
- We re-developed the website in Drupal technology.
- Also, integrated stock exchange API to display dynamic information on the site.
- The revamping of the User Interface with new design and template was executed.
- High-end server installation was done using load balancers to manage increasing users.
- Added a blog section too to increase user traffic to the website. We also integrated the GM4 publishing system with the website to fetch details related to users and latest news and content.
What was the outcome?
- User traffic increase
- Attractive look & feel with breadcrumb navigation
- User-friendly website
- Easy user navigation
- Improved user experience
- Improved system performance due to load balancing between servers
- Multiple concurrent users were now managed
- Dynamic information of stock exchange
- Latest news & events on the home page were always easily updated
Technology Stack
Drupal 8.1, PHP, MySQL, Apache Server, Windows, Linux
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