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Last night, just before the U.S. Olympic Team Trials–Track and Field got underway in Eugene, Oregon, CMI launched a major overhaul of the website for the Track and Field Writers of America (TAFWA).
TAFWA’s previous website, launched in 2001 or 2002, had languished several years without a visual overhaul. The design broke in several modern browsers, some of the site’s content was visibly obsolete, and all of it was difficult to update without the help of the original developers.
We installed Drupal for TAFWA, and installed and configured several modules to customize the popular free CMS to the organization’s specifications. It is now simple for authorized members or officers of the organization to update pages on the site and post organization news without needing to know HTML. It’s also possible for TAFWA to share particular information with its members and not the general public. We imported the membership rolls of the previous website, thus allowing certain parts of the site to require member login.
With its eyes on the marquee sport of the upcoming Olympic Games, TAFWA doesn’t have time to muck around with HTML tags–but they do need a site which looks as sharp and professional as the words of their journalist members. CMI helped them address both aspects of the problem.
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