May 15, 2023
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American School of Dubai
Completed

American School of Dubai

$100,000+
7-12 months
United Arab Emirates
6-9
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Service categories
Service Lines
Web Development
Domain focus
Education
Non-profit
CMS solutions
Drupal

Challenge

The American School of Dubai was looking for rich user experience with an updated responsive design, theming, user-friendly navigation and clear site structure. The new ASD website is meant to feature a robust news/story manager that can filter by themes and categories and include voices of various constituents. The ASD Website has a primary goal to appeal to and provide information to its audience members. The main audience members will have dedicated landing pages to provide them with a hub of information in one place.

Solution

The Drupal 8 website was built on top of Varbase CMS - which gives them the ability to publish multilingual content for a diverse range of website visitors and more importantly their target audience of the aforementioned users. Based on the identified and agreed upon roles - a preconfigured revision control process was automated for all content types and entities. ASD’s new website features a sitewide search engine with advanced search capabilities thanks to the implementation of the Apache Solr search system.

Results

Publishing content using Varbase allowed them to enjoy a seamless content publishing and moderation process with tiered roles and permissions for different levels of access (i.e.) admin, editor, publisher, and viewer. Vardot launched the website SSL enabled and continues to monitor the status of security to implement any required upgrades. A full and extensive On-Site SEO performance checklist tool was featured to enable them to create landing pages optimized for search engines.