The Illinois School Psychologists Association XOOPS CMS

url: http://www.ilispa.org

ISPA

SDAC Inc provided:

  • Web/Graphic Design
  • User Experience/Information Architect Consultation
  • XHTML/CSS programming
  • CMS (XOOPS) configuration
  • XOOPS/SMARTY theme
  • Custom PHP programming
  • PayFlow Link Integration (e-commerce)

technologies used:

XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, XOOPS, SMARTY, PhotoShop Elements

user interface:

This web site is for the Illinois School Psychologists Association (ISPA). I wanted to create a feature rich web site that was easy to navigate, and most importantly easy to maintain. This site uses SMARTY templates so I was able to edit a small number of templates that are used with all new pages – allowing ISPA to focus on content and note layout and design.

lessons learned:

This web site has 1,000 paid members so I used aMember Pro and Verisign PayFlow Link to power the user management system. I learned that a CMS is as great as the third party plugins and development environment is.

random thoughts:

Although it is nice to have a customer that has reoccurring support needs (file upload, change text, etc), I decided it was time to roll out a product that would give the power of content change to the users. For this web site, I trained the Executive Director on how to create, edit, delete online content, as well as how to create simple forms and reports using XOOPS.