Coggan Creative and Non-Profit Solutions

By admin on May 3, 2010 | Category: Press | No Comments

Monday May 3, 2010

Non-profit organizations present a challenge to web developers: they typically require a high degree of functionality within the confines of a limited budget. Depending on existing Content Management Systems (CMS) would ideally save custom development time; yet the individual needs of non-profits often necessitate customization and re-configuration of existing CMS platforms. To meet this challenge, the development team at Coggan Creative is creating a custom framework to streamline the process of developing non-profit sites. This framework will mitigate costs while providing non profits with the web capacity to meet their unique needs.

“The main goal here is to provide non-profits with the maximum degree of functionality and customization, for an affordable price,” says Christopher Coggan, CC’s founder and creative director. “The goal is simple: more bang for the buck.”

To accomplish this goal, CC’s development team is in the process of building a PHP-based framework geared specifically to the needs of non-profit organizations. Like many existing third-party frameworks, this one consists of a library of functions that will increase the speed of production and provide high-level, dynamic functionality and performance.

Lance Dockins, CC’s head developer explains, “The idea is to consolidate the needed functionality into a streamlined library with a light server footprint. That way, we’ll be able to utilize this framework on all our non-profit projects without having to reinvent the wheel for each client.”

Ideally, non-profit dollars should be spent on programs, not programming. By providing top-notch, low-cost websites, Coggan Creative will enable these organizations to meet that goal. e as the flagship sites in the non-profit realm.

As of May 5th, 2010, Coggan Creative has entered the production and design phase of two non-profit sites, Pacific Blue Foundation and Predisan USA. These will be the first sites built on our non-profit PHP framework, customized for Joomla. They will serve as flagship sites in the realm of non-profit web design and development.