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Wild Cow Studios did both the design and technical development for the Washington Chapter of the American Planning Association web site.

Wild Cow Studios did both the design and technical development for the Washington Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) web site. Following strict national APA guidelines Wild Cow Studios developed several initial design prototypes and then refined the preferred selection based on client feedback.

Once the visual design process was completed Wild Cow Studios installed and configured a content management system. Content management systems can help to lower barriers to entry for non-technical staff to contribute content, provide opportunities for community engagement and interaction and generally provide a more participatory experience for visitors.

Wild Cow Studios selected Expression Engine (EE) as the best fit for Washington APA’s needs. Expression Engine provides a powerful framework upon which complex sites can be developed and easily maintained. Some of the short-term benefits of using EE were the ability to distribute web-authoring to non-technical staff, distribute authoring of specific sections of the web site to others (i.e., giving individuals access to editing pages for a specific region or topic), time-based publishing and expiration of content, a powerful templating system, integrated mailing list management, built-in search, member management and an integrated statistical tools. Additionally EE has a framework for adding functionality, much of which is freely available.

Visit the APA Washington web site → washington-apa.org