Site launch: Sustainable Tourism Zone of the Caribbean
Last week saw our latest work launched successfully to a forum audience in Guadaloupe in the Caribbean: STZC.ORG.
The client is an EU funded research project whose aim is to encourage tourist destinations in the Caribbean to measure and improve on sustainable tourism practices. The site's users, i.e. the destination managers of various tourist destinations in the Caribbean, are able to complete destination profiles and evaluation questionnaires on the site, and then generate PDF reports automatically. The administrators are also gien the tools to edit site content themselves, upload files, create user accounts for each destination and have access to all the destination reports. The site is built to support three languages for all content: English, French and Spanish and the site administrators are able to translate all content themselves.STZC.ORG was built using the Drupal open source system, with customised modules to handle the evaluation questionnaires and report generation. Extensive use of Drupal's CCK and Views modules were used to handle the large questionnaires (150 questions, spread over 4 forms, in three different languages). As the budget was tight, any design work was kept to a minimum, making use of Drupal's default templates as much as possible.Users were allowed to use the site at launch and they successfully managed to varry out tasks on the site smoothly, thanks to the work we put in making to make the user interface intuitive and easy to use. We are proud of this launch as it fits in with our aim of increasing non-profit and 'green' projects in our portfolio.Code snippets will not render properly in feeds, so please see original article.
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by Farez Rahman
