Case Study: Stad Leuven - Website
The city councel of Leuven was no longer satisfied with their existing website and management platform. A multitude of sites were created for different city departments outside of the CMS which were all hosted on separate platforms and maintained decentrally. That proved to be very cost inefficient. Leuven chose SDL Tridion as their new, centralised web content management platform.
Problem
The city councel of Leuven was no longer satisfied with their existing website and management platform:
- Since it was already in use for several years in its current form, the site structure had grown organically into a deeply branched structure where important content was impossible to find in the site navigation’s tree structure
- Look and feel were outdated and the organisation of the information was not user friendly
- The site was very much a one way communication without any means to establish a dialog with the inhabitants of the city
- The technical content management platform had become obsolete and was no longer supported by the vendor
- There were a multitude of sites created for different city departments outside of the CMS. These were all hosted on separate platforms and maintained decentrally which proved to be cost inefficient
Solution
Define a project to set up SDL Tridion as a centralised web content management platform.
Benefits
- Integration of all subsites in the central WCMS, like the sites of Museum M, cultural centre 30CC and municipal arts academy SLAC
- Implement a new site design in the WCMS templates
- Establish tools to allow vistors to comment on posted articles and provide backend tools to moderate this visitor feedback
- Completely new information architecture resulting in more user friendly navigation and content structure
- Implementation of an integrated newsletter platform
Technology
- SDL Tridion CMS
- SDL Tridion outbound e-mail module
- Java, Apache webserver, JBoss application server
- MS SQL Server 2005