About the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. They recognize that small business is critical to our economic recovery and strength, to building America's future, and to helping the United States compete in today's global marketplace. Although SBA has grown and evolved in the years since it was established in 1953, the bottom line mission remains the same. The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam.
The Challenge
The original SBA websites were very difficult to navigate and users were having a hard time finding the information they needed. They would have to perform a search in order to find what they are looking for, which was time consuming and very unfriendly for the user.
My team at Gloscon have helped in putting up two Drupal 7 sites.
1) http://www.roshanshah.com - Gujarat Business Pulse. This is a site where I put up web podcast on a topic which relates to doing business in Gujarat.
I'll be the first to admit that it is nothing fancy, but it is done with Drupal.
I wanted to experiment with a few things, and get my test site some real-world activity to try it out. And since some folks had been sending me links to videos of some nice Christmas light installations, I thought I'd build a directory of them. It probably would have helped if I had done all this a bit earlier in the season. Obviously the night before Christmas-Eve is a little late to start creating a holiday site.