Custom Enterprise CMS Software for City of Long Beach

Client Description

The City of Long Beach website consists of both a main site for the city, along with 32 individual departments. With so many individual sites, ThinkLogic created a detailed project plan with a very aggressive timeline to accomplish the migration of 1200+ pages of content, hundreds of images and thousands of documents. This was accomplished with daily morning meetings with all team members, weekly status reviews, and detailed tracking.

Develop a number of custom user controls allowing for greater flexibility from one department to the next.

The Challenge

• Create a CMS solution that includes migrating and styling of 32 departments  microsites) and 1200 pages of content.
• Develop a number of custom user controls allowing for greater flexibility from one department to the next.
• Develop a notification tool for the city that allows residents to sign up and stay informed on the city alerts and newsletters.

The Solution

To accomplish the goals of the project in a short amount of time, we developed a heavily customized Content Management System solution. This solution ensured a smooth migration of content for all 32 departments. In addition, our customization included custom user controls to allow The City of Long Beach to better manage site content.

"We developed a heavily customized Content Management System solution."

The Outcome

We built a highly customized CMS solution that is one of the most robust solutions ThinkLogic has developed.

The new web application allows for:

• 33 sets of unique permissions for managing content
• Custom enterprise level search tool
• Dynamic/flexible responsive navigation solution
• Custom News and Press Release widgets
• Custom site caching for fast loading
• Integrated Calendar/Events solution