National Catholic Educational Association

The goal of this project was to redesign NCEA’s public website and implement a content management system. Fig Leaf worked with NCEA to identify and select a CMS that would meet all of the organization’s needs, to include integration with the organization’s iMIS Association Management System. NCEA selected the Drupal CMS platform to facilitate the organization’s goal to build brand identity, awareness, and interest through their public website.

Fig Leaf’s creative team designed the new site to serve NCEA’s site visitors who represent various groups in the Catholic education community. In addition to the new design, Fig Leaf’s creative team made updates to NCEA’s logo and created standardized logos for every department. To ensure that visitors can quickly access information, Fig Leaf’s certified usability analysts helped organize and trim the navigation and develop the drop-down menu items to be included in the new site. The new design features upcoming events, and enables NCEA content owners the ability to easily promote important content to the homepage and key landing pages.

Fig Leaf Software implemented a PHP development framework, specifically the Drupal Content Management System. The CMS interfaces directly with the iMIS 15 Association Management System (AMS), utilizing third party software solutions. Upon completion of development and site delivery, Fig Leaf’s training team developed and delivered custom content editor training. Fig Leaf launched the new site in the Amazon cloud utilizing Amazon Web Services.

With the site redesign, NCEA is now able to promote their brand more effectively, and tie-in the community of teachers and school administrators to the site. NCEA’s new website features the latest information, events, news items, activities and events designed to support their users in their catholic educational ministry. The website redesign allows for the integration of information based on the needs of the audience and the needs of organization. With a robust CMS now in place, content editors can easily make timely updates to the website.