AACBT

The Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy is a multidisciplinary national professional body for health and other professionals interested in the practice, research and training of established and emerging evidence-based behavioural and cognitive therapies. The requirements of the project were to%3A – A clean and professional design consistent with AACBT’s new branding and organisational values of evidence, quality, collegiality, diversity, intellectual rigor, inclusiveness, scientist-practitioner, fun and encouragement. – The website to house all of the organisations’ memberships and membership registration details. – The website to manage payment of all of AACBT’s events. – Migration of all content and user database from the previous AACBT website. – Deliver a responsive website that performs exceptionally on mobile devices. Audience The primary target audience are health professionals. Secondary target audience are education and welfare professionals. Technical highlights – Multiple technologies utilised to meet the project brief. – Custom CSS and SVG animations. – Dynamic content rendering. – jQuery JS and less Framework utilised for front-end animations, dynamic content and user interface. – Customised subscription WordPress plugin utilised for membership registrations and membership custom grace period. -Extended and customised WooCommerce platform to meet event pricing variation and custom display of event pricing. – Custom built newsletter email functionality with custom built filtering functions to target sending of newsletter to user database. – Custom built reporting functionality and integrated into WordPress CMS. – Custom built MYOB integration. Challenges – The back-end aspect of the project required a large amount of resource, as it basically managed all of AACBT’s memberships, events and newsletters in the one product. – The custom nature of all the project’s membership, events, newsletter and e-commerce requirements meant we had to spend a large amount of time exploring these requirements with the client to ensure the final product was fit for purpose. – MYOB integration was a challenge due to the limited support for MYOB Developer API. – Deploying the website with a seamless transition from its predecessor was necessary due to users purchasing from the website. Additionally we had to ensure no data was lost during the transition.

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