Wegwijs

Converted from Typo3 to Umbraco. If you're not familiar with Typo3 and have limited access to the server, it can be quite difficult to migrate a Typo3 site to use a different CMS. In the end I came up with a very specific content scraper that would take the original site's content and go through it page by page. It cleaned up any bad markup that had been allowed in the Typo3 system.

There are a few very important forms on the site that have been designed to look beautiful and the implementation works very smoothly thanks to great looking animations in javascript. The content of the forms is piped into Contour using the RestContour package I created and then a few custom workflows kick in. The workflow types have been partially created by me, but as it is an open source project, I also took contributions from other developers.

Other notable features:

Editors have a much improved user experience, especially now that they don't have to manually crop and resize photos in different sizes.
The old site had great performance problems and couldn't handle a lot of visitors coming in at the same time after the weekly newsletter was sent. This has completely been solved with Umbraco out of the box, without caching turned on or doing any performance optimization.
Content managament is many times easier now because most of the wishes of the editor could easily be implemented.
The site is linked to an external newsltter sending provider, reusing existing content, making it really easy to send out the weekly newsletter.

Type of assignment:
Acquisition and project management by WVD Media; developed during my dayjob as a developer for WVD. I built the site using the Umbraco CMS, using C#, XSLT and Razor.

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