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Miningwatch Canada has relaunched its highly successful website using the Back End content management system with design and templates by yours truly.
Miningwatch Canada is a research, advocacy and networking organization that works on making mining less toxic to humans and the environment. The organization's tiny staff are able to make themselves look big, organized and politically scary to all manner of corporations, government and media in part because they're devoted to the cause, but also because they use their website to collect and disseminate news and research on mining practices worldwide.
But the time had come, as with any well-used static website, to reign in some of that organic (though not in a good way) growth and turn what had become a defacto database of a world of mining disasters and the occasional good news story into an actual database.
To be precise, a content management system.
The organization had been fundraising for the slender budget required to redo the site, and had managed to hire a highly skilled summer student to do the content migration. The organization hired Open Concept Consulting to install and customize Back-end, to design a new look to the site, and train staff on how to use the CMS.
The site itself is XHTML 1.0 strict, all-css, semantic markup. It has more than 700 pages, and is now entirely run on the CMS.
