Role
It has been our pleasure to work with KCDS over the last 6 years, evolving the website into a comprehensive intranet system. We have also assisted with the development of the logo, print material as well as marketing material for use by staff.
Challenges
Kootenay Career Development Society (KCDS) is a non-profit society that provides a variety of career development and employment services to the communities of the Kootenays.
Initially designed in .NET SQL, we have recently launched a new website for KCDS redesigned in PHP / mySQL / WordPress. Stealing all of the functionality, interface, and structure from our original application, we rebuilt the entire intranet / front-end website in a more modern robust language and database type. This also allowed us to take advantage of all the great WordPress features and “plug-in” a diversity of upgrades very easily, as well as providing a complete content management system that sits behind the site pages.
For the staff at KCDS this new website has become a fun and exciting venue in which to publish content , For me it has been an exciting challenge resulting in a clear understanding of the deeper layers of the WordPress foundation.
Features
- With this new website, the real magic happens with “dashboards”. For both clients and employers, once they register, they are brought to their “dashboard”.
- Articles, Workshops and Resources are delivered strategically online and feature rich post content with videos, image galleries and downloadable content.
- Employers can also post and manage jobs within their dashboard adding to the front-end job board.
