Media Web Portal

Client

• Name: Friflyt
• Website: http://www.friflyt.no
• Industry: Media and Entertainment
• Core Business: Sports magazine
• Country: Norway

Goals

• Create a media portal for a reputable sports magazine in Norway
• Social network
• Generation capability of media content by users and publishers

Scope

• Data import for specific structures of the eZ publish framework
• Import over 17,000 users from the original database
• Import over 30,000 items (media articles, gallery photos, forum posts, etc)
• Creation of different content types such as articles and travel guides
• User evaluation of sports equipment
• Blogs insertion
• Forum
• Create and access photo galleries
• User profile with the possibility of creating content
• Create a dynamic frontpage which automatically switches the entire content
• The project was developed in partnership with Seeds Consulting, a software development company from Norway

Technologies

• Ez Publish
• PHP
• MYSQL
• HTML
• CSS

Challenges

• The dynamic website layout effects the architectural structure
• The summer holidays in Europe were a difficult period for communication. However the project ended in October as scheduled
• Communication difficulties because we did not have direct contact with the end-customer
• The entire project documentation was in Norwegian

Solutions

• Fast learning of the complex technology 
• Working with a design firm from the beginning of the project
• Resources planning and team reallocation to speed up the project in September
• The Norwegian partner, Seeds Consulting, specified the requirements with the end customer while maintaining a continuous flow of communication with Eximios
• Native Norwegian speaker in the project and also automatic translation of Norwegian documents

Resources

• 3 programmers / month
• 3 months
• Team of architects
• Infrastructure

Key Success Factors

• Fast learning and mastery of the ez-publish platform
• Redesign throughout the project
• Know-how of the Scandinavian market