New PCG Website

[administrator]

They've replaced the whole infrastructure, ditched the antiquated disconnected systems (commercial, website, fora, membership and assorted back office functions) and consolidated the old data (the original had over 400 pages, mostly hard-coded) on to either the website or the new CRM system. The website is a small part of the whole, and the fora an even smaller one. So yes, a bit more than £10k I suspect, but how much to replace everything CUK owns?

Glad you didn't bite! I suspect a bit more than £10K as well Hardest bit on the last CUK revamp was copying data from one system to the other, and we already had it in some sort of DB structure so could have been a lot worse. Was first time with Drupal for me so would be a lot quicker if I had to do it again. I guess you just learn little tricks, like if I had 400 static pages to copy then to write a crawler to spider all pages and dump them into a DB so that they could be easily pushed into Drupal, would cut it down from weeks of copying manually to a couple of days - but then the big consultancies don't tend to come up with time savers like that!

As for replacing what CUK owns - as you know we already have a good system so no need to change in terms of the core CMS at present. But built on Drupal 6 which is looking a bit shabby now compared to 7 - it seems to be a never-ending battle

And that's 21,000 members, growing at 5% a month, incidetnally.

So by the end of the year the PCG is forecast to have 36,000 members? Wow.

[cojak]

New PCG Website

I wonder if they will be using Tapatalk?

[Zippy]

I'm battling my way through this now. I believe my membership expired in Jan. No reminder from PCG, so logged in to check. First indicator that it had was that, as soon as I logged in I got an 'unauthorised' page.

So I clicked the 'join now' button and am trawling through the forms

Entering my phone number, for example - I enter it area/space/number. Submit the form and it tells me I mustn't enter a space. It's not rocket science to strip the space out!! So I click back into the field to remove the space, and the number disappears, meaning I have to retype it. OK, admittedly not that onerous, but completely unnecessary!

2 error messages later, and I've made it to the payment page, where I have to enter my address even though PCG have it. Grrrr. At least this page hasn't got the eyestrain italics!

Yay, success.

The last time I saw behaviour like that the system was a Bob job. We made them do it again and, no, it wasn't a change request.

[mudskipper]

The last time I saw behaviour like that the system was a Bob job. We made them do it again and, no, it wasn't a change request.

Are you sure? Did you specify that the field shouldn't lose its contents when you click into it?

[minestrone]

McDonalds launch new range of burgers in Febuary, Essex cat gets stuck up a tree, PCG hack a bit of HTML.

More intersted with the cat and burgers if truth be told.