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Case StudyCAD Tips Wiki development on Drupal having a mix of Web2.0 and CMS features.

CAD Tips

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Agenda

• Highlights• The Business Need• The Technology Need• Business Solution• Technology Solution• Team structure• Results

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Highlights

• Extensive experience on popular Wiki tools like MediaWiki, Confluence and Drupal

• Requirements were a mix of CMS + Wiki + Web 2.0 features• Migration of huge amount of data from MDB to Drupal• Making content fully searchable by external search engines• Continuous and frequent changes in design based on

feedback from client• Active consulting with client on features, user interface,

usability and overall success of the CAD Tips site• Drupal 6.2, MySQL• InfoBeans’ commitment to high quality and on time delivery

of the project

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The Business Need

• Build a “CAD Tips” wiki from Cadalyst Microsoft Access Tips database and library of Hot Tip Harry columns

• Establish Cadalyst as the place to find CAD programming code on the web

• Improve the frequency of same-person visits to “CAD Tips”• 1700+ odd tips were distinguished just on the basis on Topic

and it needed better ways to classify and categorize them• Make Tip search powerful enough to help drive traffic• External Search Engines could not index the bundled tip code

files• Existing site lacked Web 2.0 features like comments , rating

etc and was not conducive to audience engagement

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The Technology Need

• Making the tips searchable and index-able via Google and other search engines was critical to success for the client

• System did not have enough support for metadata without which search engine optimization was impossible

• Highly useful tips could not be downloaded individually• Increase traffic on the site. Single-access users would likely

browse additional pages; new users would find the site via SEO

• A clean, simple and intuitive user interface had to be built. • Client did not have a good idea of UI design issues, so needed

inputs from InfoBeans

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Business Solution

• UI of Tips was aligned with the look and feel of the main site• For site stickiness, related tips functionality was built• Tips were categorized and made searchable based on various

parameters and internal search was made very powerful.• Enabled users to add tweaked version of the tip along with

their comments• High priority new feature requests were implemented after

quick Proofs of Concept (PoCs)• To facilitate agile development via daily status calls and

biweekly server builds

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Technology Solution

• Implemented Drupal 6.2 modules for Web2.0 + CMS + Wiki like features and MySQL

• Wrote smart scripts to migrate excel data to Drupal and map source fields to destination fields as the new schema was very different from the old schema.

• Implemented CAPTCHA to prevent spam and malicious software

• Highly secure system to prevent cross site scripting and SQL injection attacks

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Team structureRole Responsibilities Experience and skills Location

Project Manager Requirements Analysis, Communication, Co-ordination, Project Scoping and Management

4 years development & project management experience

US East coast

Project lead Leading the team, establishing priorities and regular status updates

8 years - Drupal,.NET, MySQL and Web Technologies

India

Developer 1 User Interface 4 years - .NET, Flex, AJAX India

Developer 2,3,4 Application, database and deployment 3 years - Web technologies, Drupal CMS, MySQL

India

QA 1,2 Automated testing, load testing, black box and white box testing

3 years with various QA testing tools

India

QA3 Black box and functional testing 1 year with various QA testing tools

India

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Contact us for more information

Siddharth SethiInfoBeans Incwww.infobeans.comsiddharth.sethi@infobeans.comBishop Ranch Corporate Park2410 Camino Ramon, Suite 288San Ramon, CA 94582USA+1 888 4 INFOBEANS