Celiac Today

Online newspaper & community website

Project Highlights

  • Newspaper-style format and publishing
  • List of celiac support groups searchable by zip code
  • Search tool for celiac food products and makers
  • Social networking: user comments and feedback on articles, online forums
  • Donation and e-commerce features
  • Google Adsense, image and text advertisements

Client's Goals

Celiac Today envisioned a website that would provide professionally reported news stories for people living with celiac (wheat allergies). They needed the ability to queue articles to be automatically published on a future date. An easily updatable site was a must.

Technology & Expertise Utilized

  • Drupal open source content management system (CMS)
  • Developed custom scheduled newspaper publishing module
  • WYSIWYG rich-text editor
  • Custom Drupal theme; hand-coded, W3C standards compliant XHTML/CSS using CSS layout techniques
  • Created modules capable of proximity search by zip code, city or state
  • Custom search tool for easily selecting a vendor by food category
  • Drupal E-commerce modules for donations via Paypal
 Technivant is a pleasure to work with. They encouraged detailed and disciplined up-front planning. Then, with a clear blueprint in hand, they delivered the fully functional site on-time (actually, a bit ahead of schedule), on budget and according to spec. The maintenance support for new feature requests and updates has been outstanding.  
Steven P. Galante, Editor, CeliacToday.com