Site Usability
Interactive Portal site of the Casa de Galicia in Madrid
Casa de Galicia 2mdc asked to take charge of the publication and maintenance of an interactive website with the following features:
- Promote the image of Galicia outside their territory, with a specific section devoted to tourism
- Providing citizens with access to Galician culture through its documentary online
- Favor the interaction of users with an easily configurable portlets technology
- Report on current events and developments in the Galician Xunta through its news service
- Incorporating an efficient search engine that would take advantage of all available resources in the portal
To meet these objectives are proposed:
technology:
Liferay platform
- This is a free software based on Java that was already present on the website of the Xunta.
- Content management allows users without knowledge of web development, by setting predefined portlets.
Search and Indexing
- We replaced the native Lucene search by a search engine based on Google’s Custom Search API, lighter and more agile handling.
- To facilitate automatic indexing of the site, incorporating a dynamic site map that is updated with every change.
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Spanish Society of Rheumatology has a website
Non-profit organization that aims to promote the study of rheumatic diseases for the benefit of patients and address problems related to the specialty. It has about 1,500 members, of whom the majority are practicing dermatologists and is also comprised of students, family medicine senior dermatologists, scientists and pharmaceutical researchers who have passed the approval of the Company.
Objectives:
This company previously available from a corporate portal for information of members, but needed a complete renovation and expansion of services that focus on offering greater usability and interactivity for members, with content accessible and interesting for everyone.
Focus our strategy on three key principles:
Optimization of existing code to improve inflexibility the site. This was achieved by adopting the recommendations of W3C and WAI and reorganizing the document hierarchy to facilitate the work of indexing spiders like Google. About the Portal to the user, using statistical methods to investigate how the pages actually visit the user expects and what actually find them. Incorporation of constantly updated content to help retain the user, such as wikis hematology encyclopedia, a section of events of interest or the online magazine conciser.
Some initiatives requiring custom development were:
- A content management system (CMS) created specifically for BE, which allows you to create and maintain content for the portal remotely to a closed user group.
- The creation of a center locator and professionals with the Google Maps API.
- The launch of a mobile system that enables alerts to keep users informed throughout about the latest developments of the Spanish Society of Hematology.
Results:
Today the Spanish Society of Hematology has a website easy, intuitive, accessible and with plenty of useful and updated information for the reader, whether professional or patient.
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Help your website complies with the regulations
Registration of files of personal data collected through its Web page in the General Registry of Data Protection. Audit and implementation of security measures for technical and organizational, to ensure the security of the data collected through the forms in your website.
Drafting of the security document containing all the measures taken in accordance with legal requirements. Preparation of the terms of acceptance by users to include in the data collection forms to your website. Implementation of procedures to allow users to exercise their rights under the law recognizes them on the data provided.
In particular: access, update and cancel them.
With the entry into force of the Law of Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSICE, Law 34/2002 of July 11 in force since October 2003) and the Organic Law on Data Protection (Data Protection Act, Act 15/1999 of December 13, Protection of Personal Data) is that owners of websites or commercial sites must comply with specific requirements to avoid being punished by the regulator: the Spanish Data Protection Agency data (AEPD).