International Rivers' mission is to protect rivers and defend the rights of communities that depend on them. They oppose destructive dams and encourage better ways of meeting people's needs for water, energy and flood protection.
International Rivers hosts a vast array of text, image and multimedia content invaluable to researchers, and important for promoting action in support of campaigns. Years of website growth, languages expansion, and increases in blogger and other content contributors created the urgency to upgrade the design and architecture. The new system needed to support more complex relationships between all available content, using a much simplified interface in order to continue to scale as International Rivers expands the website
FivePaths partnered with International Rivers to determine the best strategy for upgrading the Drupal 5 website to Drupal 7, and to accomodate the expansion of relationships between all online content. We conducted a comprehensive audit of the existing content, and developed an architecture that allows maximum flexibility to build relationships across content to help support campaigns and issue areas. We mapped and migrated all content to the new site, allowing the team to focus on content updates and new content creation, saving weeks of time and effort. We provided a multilingual site solution to allow the continued expansion of language content. The new system is built using all standard, well adopted Drupal technology, helping to minimize upkeep and upgrade costs in the future.
International Rivers is focused on adopting website management skills in house. We continue to work with International Rivers to provide support to help increase their capacity to improve the website on their own.
