We launched a new Farcry site this week!

Lehigh Reunion - Linked by Tradition

All of the front end content is managed by Farcry. Once again. we were able to train the content editors in about 15 minutes and they've been happily tweaking and changing stuff ever since. The "News" item is a big help to them - using the categorization features of Farcry. they are able to target specific news articles to an individual class page. the home page. or dump it in the general pool of news items. It's working great...now if only we had more content! One more shout out to the guys at Daemon for building a simple. powerful CMS with GREAT reporting tools!!

The registration system (go ahead..take a few steps in to it) is a separate Mach-ii application with a friendly dose of cfAjax baked in for user-friendliness. There are simply too many events involved in reunion weekend to present just one big list (even broken down by day). so we decided to apply tags to the individual events. The tags are created to classify the event's nature as well as the reunion class(es) it applies to. Naturally. we default the selection of events to correspond to the class year(s) of the registrant and any guests.

The back end management is done through our intranet infrastructure (also all Mach-ii) using another hefty dose of cfAJAX. I might have mentioned our event management system before. but this is the third generation of that codebase and it supports more options than ever before - discounts (apparently nobody pays face value anymore). more flexible activity options (so everybody gets the right size t-shirt). and multiple payment options. We also bulked up the reporting interface quite a bit.

We're happy with it - the client is now hosting ALL of their reunion and event websites in-house. Our traditional sample Farcry site (the Young Alumni Reunion one) will move into this new reunion framework in time for a July launch as well. Training cost drops just about as close to zero as it can be! Score one for the programmers.