Citizen-click celebrates the launch of The Big Idea 2.0 website

Citizen-click contributed a new visual design as part of the re-launch of The Big Idea website project. The project coined “TBI 2.0” saw the site migrated and relaunched on the Drupal open source framework.

Winning the design aspect of the project allowed our Drupal theme-ing expert, Ben McNicoll, to put to use industry standards in social networking and magazine style website design. The site now sits comfortably amongst recognised global community based websites – being both functional and stylish in its display of vast amounts of compelling content contributed by both the community and editorial staff.

With around 20,000 registered members and thousands of articles, forums, and directory entries, few sites in New Zealand can compete with this new and improved community-orientated site.

As well as look and feel, Citizen-click also provided consulting expertise on a range of implementation issues, including media handling, SEO, and editorial content promotion functionality.

Highlights of the Drupal based site include:

• High volume of well presented imagery – which far better represent the creative communities output
• Allowance for all kinds of media inclusion - including video and audio
• Ability for the editor to quickly and regularly attract attention to new content, by placing content into a pool of rotating featured articles
• Multiple ways to access content, through navigation, searching, tags, and detailed filters.

The theme-ing work has involved taking all aspects of display into account, including giving weighting to some content over others, navigational style, advertising placement, and cohesiveness between home, sub-pages, and super-sub pages. Standards in display are now set by the website itself – allowing for a consistent and aesthetically pleasing look on every page.

Congratulations to TBI and the project team for a seamless migration and launch. We look forward to a strong and ongoing relationship with The Big Idea Trust.