Drupal Migration and Design for Orange County, CA
By Promet Source
Client
Orange County, California
Services
Project Description
The proprietary software upon which Orange County’s previous website had been built, represented the best available solution at the time it was developed. Over the course of a decade and a half, as Drupal made quantum evolutionary leaps forward, the county’s proprietary web software proved to be unnecessarily costly and difficult to manage. Upgrades and support for the system were on the decline, and eventually the vendor revealed that the software was slated for end-of-life status. As county stakeholders explored options for moving forward with a modern CMS, the downside of relying on proprietary web software developed by a company that may or may not continue to upgrade and maintain it, came into sharp focus. It was determined that the county would be far better served with a CMS developed and driven by a global, open source community, versus a for-profit company. Following a positive experience with Promet Source on a previous engagement, Orange County moved forward in partnership with Promet on the migration of their site to a Drupal CMS. Provus, which is Promet’s newly launched component-based design system, proved to be a defining factor in the success of the project – driving a high degree of development efficiency, while empowering site owners and content editors with the ability with access to a robust library of content editing components.With Provus, the keys for managing the site have essentially been turned over to individual site owners and an empowered cadre of 100+ content editorsLeveraging Drupal Layout Builder, along with a carefully curated set of components, Provus provides site owners with layout options based upon sets of component blocks that can be mixed and matched for no-code, drag-and-drop content editing. While each of the sites is utilizing the same code base, every department’s site has a distinct database, with a cohesive design language and brand guidelines.
The proprietary software upon which Orange County’s previous website had been built, represented the best available solution at the time it was developed. Over the course of a decade and a half, as Drupal made quantum evolutionary leaps forward, the county’s proprietary web software proved to be unnecessarily costly and difficult to manage. Upgrades and support for the system were on the decline, and eventually the vendor revealed that the software was slated for end-of-life status. As county stakeholders explored options for moving forward with a modern CMS, the downside of relying on proprietary web software developed by a company that may or may not continue to upgrade and maintain it, came into sharp focus. It was determined that the county would be far better served with a CMS developed and driven by a global, open source community, versus a for-profit company. Following a positive experience with Promet Source on a previous engagement, Orange County moved forward in partnership with Promet on the migration of their site to a Drupal CMS. Provus, which is Promet’s newly launched component-based design system, proved to be a defining factor in the success of the project – driving a high degree of development efficiency, while empowering site owners and content editors with the ability with access to a robust library of content editing components.With Provus, the keys for managing the site have essentially been turned over to individual site owners and an empowered cadre of 100+ content editorsLeveraging Drupal Layout Builder, along with a carefully curated set of components, Provus provides site owners with layout options based upon sets of component blocks that can be mixed and matched for no-code, drag-and-drop content editing. While each of the sites is utilizing the same code base, every department’s site has a distinct database, with a cohesive design language and brand guidelines.
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