A Website Portal Development Integrated with CMS Product

The Client

This is a Dutch insurance consulting service provider who is dedicated to offering custom business solutions for mid-site companies.

What the client wanted

The client needed a products selling website with many portal functionalities in a quick and structured way. Through the website, visitors could understand the content and the advantages of their products. This website aimed at attracting more potential customers in Netherlands. Several new features had to be developed like dynamic update by a specialized ASP .Net CMS product. And several forms, like log-in form, password request form, password forgotten form, order form and contact form, should be created.

The key point of the development was that the website had to be fully integrated with an open source CMS product. All the content modification and addition of the website as well as the site structure must be realized by Rainbow Portal CMS tool. It was also required that the website and the CMS part had to be fully secured against possible intruders, and the website had to be optimised for the Google ranking system.

Approach

With extensive experience in CMS development, Abstract Technology's engineers had no difficulty in understanding the requirement. The website was built on Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and SQL Server 2000, using the technologies of IIS, ASP.NET and Rainbow framework. Rainbow portal CMS is an open source initiative to build a comprehensive content management system using Microsoft's ASP.NET and C# technologies. It is a powerful tool allowing content authoring to be safely delegated to role-based team members who have little or no knowledge of HTML and supporting e-store, XML news feeds, Flash, Maps, Newsletter, Surveys, Forums, Document Management, Custom Lists, and etc.

The security design in the portal made use of both authentication and authorization. Authentication was the process by which the application verified a users identity and credentials. Authorization then verified the authenticated users permissions for a particular requested resource.

Benefits

• Quick deliverable process
• A fully secured website against possible intruders
• An extensible and scalable website with Rainbow framework

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