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Website Construction (CMS-Based)

Help Parents Helping Parents- San Jose communicate their work with a content management system (CMS)-based website, so that they can easily manage and update site content on a regular basis.
Parents Helping Parents- San Jose
San Jose, CA, USA
Parents Helping Parents- San Jose
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Parents Helping Parents- San Jose
San Jose, CA, USA

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Posted July 25th

Website Construction (CMS-Based)

Project details

What we need
  • Development of a new website using a Content Management System (CMS)
  • Training to ensure Organization's staff members can update content and manage the site post-launch
  • Note: This project is for a website built with a Content Management System (CMS), such as Wordpress, Squarespace, Joomla, Drupal, or Weebly . A CMS-based website can be maintained and updated easily (no coding required!)
Additional details

Parents Helping Parents has a community resource directory with 2,400 files that is currently hosted separately from our main website. The user interface needs A LOT of improvement. We are looking for an engineer to help us improve the user interface, in particular, the searching and browsing. We need someone who knows Drupal well enough to improve the site significantly OR potentially migrate the data and develop the directory in WordPress alongside our other web content.

What we have in place
  • We currently have the data in a CMS, Drupal, and the challenge is to modify the user interface. We also have a clear, relatively short, project description but it's too long for 500 characters allowed here.
How this will help
This project will save us $16,822 , allowing us to enable families to self-serve and find the local resources they need. Our staff, who currently do much of the research for our clients, will have more time to address more in-depth needs 1:1.

When a family has a child with special needs, a standard search engine will not enable them or our staff to find the services tailored to children with disabilities in our region. Our resource directory is the #1 most comprehensive search mechanism in Silicon Valley for finding these specialized providers but the CX is poor. Our users fall into three categories: parents, staff and professionals the serving special needs community.

Project plan

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Prep: Share Information
  • Volunteer Manager provides Professional with an outline of the Organization’s needs and goals for the new website, which should include any specific features that are required (e.g., contact forms, mobile responsive design, member sign in, etc.)
  • Volunteer Manager provides approved content and images to be used for the new website (e.g., About Us copy, Mission Statement, staff bios and images, etc.)
  • Volunteer Manager provides Professional with links to any existing online presence that the Organization has (e.g., social media, blog, existing website, etc.)
  • Volunteer Manager registers Organization's domain name with a web host, if necessary
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Milestone 1: Kick-off Discussion
  • Volunteer Manager and Professional connect to discuss the timeline and scope of the website project, including: the number of pages or sections for the new website, specific features and plugins requires, look and feel for the website (themes), target date for initial review, target date for website launch
  • Professional reviews information provided and makes recommendations for which CMS application to use
  • Volunteer Manager signs up for the selected CMS application, and provides Professional with credentials to create the website
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Milestone 2: Build & Review
  • Professional uses the materials provided and agreed upon timeline to build the website
  • Volunteer Manager reviews the in-progress website and provides feedback
  • Professional completes any required functional QA
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Milestone 3: Website Launch
  • Professional provides final website for approval to launch
  • Volunteer Manager approves the website for launch, or requests approval from any stakeholders
  • Professional launches the site on Organization's domain name
  • Professional troubleshoots any issues that may arise immediately after launch
  • Professional instructs the Volunteer Manager on how to update content and maintain the website going forward
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Parents Helping Parents- San Jose
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Marlee B
Marlee B.

Manager of Strategic Projects

Our mission

PHP's mission is to help children and adults with special needs receive the support and services they need to reach their full potential by providing information, training, and resources to build strong families and improve systems of care.

What we do

We connect families to resources and information through 1:1 calls, support groups, in-person workshops, and E-Learning.

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