Since Genova Città Digitale, an office of the Municipality of Genova, has started to produce itself his web products, it always used Drupal and Vivere Genoa (www.viveregenova.comune.genova.it), his last brainchild, is an online newspaper which talks about cultural happenings in the city of Genoa. The site features a smooth and clean visual design by Federica Scaraglio which reminds to a traditional newspaper style, while project development and implementation are due to Antonio Pastorino (http://drupal.org/user/686294) and Gabriele Arecco.
Major Features
Since this newspaper talks about cultural happenings, lifestyle and so on, editors of Vivere Genova need to be able to publish videos, photo galleries, audio contents and so on, including old-style files. Each of these contents can be related to traditional online articles. Capability to produce live news stream was also required.
Editors of Vivere Genova also need to be able to manage newspaper’s homepage regardless of the single articles. This home page administration is similar to that of Repubblica online newspaper and was advised by Genova Città Digitale’s contributor Massimo Razzi. Furthermore, editors needs to be able to produce homepages in advance, for example, each evening the next morning homepage has to be ready.
About the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. They recognize that small business is critical to our economic recovery and strength, to building America's future, and to helping the United States compete in today's global marketplace. Although SBA has grown and evolved in the years since it was established in 1953, the bottom line mission remains the same. The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam.
The Challenge
The original SBA websites were very difficult to navigate and users were having a hard time finding the information they needed. They would have to perform a search in order to find what they are looking for, which was time consuming and very unfriendly for the user.
My team at Gloscon have helped in putting up two Drupal 7 sites.
1) http://www.roshanshah.com - Gujarat Business Pulse. This is a site where I put up web podcast on a topic which relates to doing business in Gujarat.
