Camp Ojibwa
Camp Ojibwa for Boys had been doing what many non-web centric companies do- they had been building (and rebuilding) upon the basic architecture that had been established by their first website...in 1996. It was time for a complete redesign.
The primary challenge with the project was coming up with a flashy enough design (without using Flash) to please the client. Many of Camp Ojibwa's competetors had recently invested in new Flash-based websites, and while camp Director Denny Rosen saw value in their jazzy presentations, he also recognized that those sites offered a fraction of campojibwa.com's informational services. Additionally, he had been informed of the perils of updating a Flash-based site from his colleagues.
A secondary challegne was to provide a high degree of site-wide automation so that even though different parts of the site would be maintained by seperate individuals, the entire site would maintain a consistent design. In order to accomplish this, the website makes use of several different content management systems. The majority of the site is managed by WordPress. The photo album is managed by Gallery 2. Camp employees make use of the Gallery Remote application for uploading daily updates. YouTube is utilized for web-based videos. The camp's menu is an embedded Google Calendar. Finally, there are several custom PHP scripts that control items like the website's persistant slide show and the Olympic / Collegiate Week scoreboards. The camp's Director of Media has been trained to manage these scripts via Php MyAdmin.