The Situation
GrassrootsLab managed two news sites focused on issues in California communities: CaliforniaCityNews.org and CaliforniaCountyNews.org. They wanted to freshen their design, automate some of their administrative tasks, and take advantage of additional social media connections.
The Problem
The sites were hosted on a system that did not provide enough flexibility for administrators. They wanted to be able to easily search for content in the backend of the sites. And they wanted to be able to feature content in different ways on the public side of the sites. In addition, the previous platform did not offer enough interactivity between the site content and their visitors.
Our Solution
We used Drupal and migrated the 6000+ blog posts from the previous platform. The sites include a variety of new design and functionality options.