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Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
2009
icad-cisd-2009 ICAD is a coalition of over 120 AIDS service organizations (ASOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), faith-based organizations, educational institutions and labour unions. It began in 1989 as a working group of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC) bringing together AIDS service organizations and international development organizations to address the HIV/AIDS crisis. ICAD helps Canadians contribute to international HIV/AIDS work and ensures that the lessons learned from the global response to HIV/AIDS are utilized by Canadian organizations to improve prevention, care, treatment and support work in Canada.

URL: http://www.icad-cisd.com

This was a redesign project of a website designed a few years ago. Our requirements included:

  • Improve security of the site:
    • Eliminate constant attacks and SQL injections in the code
    • Eliminate form spam
  • Add modularity to the site:
    • Enable interaction with visitors (comments, send to a friend, article rating, etc).
    • 3rd party addons (Newsletters, Forums, Contact forms, etc)
  • Add an in-house capacity to edit the site
  • Bring up to date with the latest technological trends (RSS capability, captchas in forms, etc.)
  • New template

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Updated splash page.

In order to achieve all of the tasks we were faced with, we've decided to use Joomla. Joomla is content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. It is an open source solution and is supported by a wide community of users.

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Fresh new look, with a new template.

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New registration form

Member registration form is one of the interactive features of the site. The members are saved into a database, managed from the back-end component of the site.