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Michael C. Carlos Museum

Emory University
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Project Description: 

Mediacurrent partnered with Times3Design to create a content management system for the Emory University Michael C. Carlos Museum.

Emory needed a CMS web site to showcase their collections of artifacts, online gift shop, offer podcasts, and provide routine updates and announcements for site and museum visitors via calendar and dynamic home page content. Drupal provided the perfect customizable framework to fulfill those client requests.

Project Goals: 

The goals of this project were to redesign the existing, static HTML web site for the Carlos Museum and replace it with a modern content management system that would greatly reduce file and content management efforts on behalf of the museum's staff. The static website also needed to be overhauled to improve navigation, content categorization, and the overall visitor experience.

Other goals included:
- Create a Custom CMS Workflow for Adding, Archiving, Categorizing, and Displaying Museum Artifacts
- Create a Site Web Calendar to Display Monthly Events
- Create Ability for Site to Host Podcasts for User Download
- Inventory - the museum's bookshop inventory is now displayed on the site.

My Development Role: 

Trent Wyman - Project Lead Developer (Drupal Development / Drupal Theming)
- Create site architecture
- Create custom content types
- Create system taxonomy
- Create content views filtered by type and taxonomy
- Create custom CSS, JavaScript drop down site navigation menu
- Theme content types, page nodes, site menus, and views according to strict graphic design and UI requirements by Times3Design

Additional Development Credits: 

Chris Hales - Developer & Lead Support (Drupal Development)
- Setup functionality for custom web calendar
- Setup functionality for hosting podcasts and audio downloads
- Setup functionality for dynamic content displays on home page

Kirk Leitch - Times3Design Project Manager (UI Graphic Designer)
- Design UI (user interface ) graphics, content layout, and overall visual design
- Oversee development and theming process to ensure site met client expectations

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