Website Portfolio

In 2024, OPC merged PWSS and MaPS websites into a single site on Drupal 10 GovCMS SaaS platform for Parliamentary Workplace Support Service. - www.pwss.gov.au

In 2024, OPC had the privilege to collaborate with the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) to redevelop their website on the Drupal 10 GovCMS SaaS Platform.

This project was initiated to enhance the digital presence of IGIS, ensuring that their online platform is modern, accessible, and user-friendly.

By leveraging the Paragraphs module, we established a range of choices for authors to utilize while crafting fresh content. This strategy not only reduced the variety of Content Types but also enabled features like Image Galleries and Content Lists to transition into Paragraphs, granting flexibility to place them within any Basic Page on the site. Likewise, we've leveraged the Lagoon Solr API to boost the search functionality for the content.

In 2023, OPC has redeveloped the Independent Review Office on Drupal 10 Platform. - iro.nsw.gov.au

In 2021, the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) entrusted OPC with the critical task of migrating their website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 (and to Drupal 10 in 2024). Leveraging our extensive experience with the Drupal CMS, OPC undertook a comprehensive redevelopment project to enhance the website's functionality, accessibility, and user experience. Our team conducted detailed discovery and co-design workshops, ensuring that the new site architecture met the nuanced needs of ASBFEO’s diverse user base. The result is a modern, responsive website that aligns with WCAG 2.1 standards, facilitating better engagement and accessibility for all users.

In addition to the website redevelopment, in 2024, OPC built a data visualisation solution for ASBFEO that allows content authors to turn CSV files into interactive charts. This feature significantly enhances the user experience by providing dynamic and engaging ways to present data, making complex information more accessible and understandable.

OPC’s approach to the ASBFEO projects was rooted in Agile methodologies, ensuring flexibility and iterative improvements throughout the development process. We collaborated closely with ASBFEO stakeholders, utilising tools like Webex and Confluence to maintain seamless communication and project management, even amidst the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our user-centric design principles guided every phase of the project, from initial discovery to final deployment. By understanding the unique needs and tasks of ASBFEO’s users, we crafted a service that is intuitive and efficient, enhancing the overall user experience.

In 2023, OPC has redeveloped the Aboriginal Hostels Limited website on the Drupal 9 GovCMS Platform. - www.ahl.gov.au.

In 2022, OPC engaged the Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) on a web project to develop an Advanced Search on the website. This project involved leveraging Apache Solr to tag content and provide extensive filters and keywords in an effort to make content easily searchable.

In 2019, The Department of Defence’s Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) selected OPC through the Drupal Services panel to develop a new website on the GovCMS8 SaaS platform.

The website caters for domestic and international audiences who require information or research product on the latest thinking and debate on the changing character of war and use of land forces published by the Australian Army Research Centre.

Aside from disseminating information the main objectives of the AARC website include providing a forum for two way engagement with users, creating a mechanism to create collaboration and articulating available resources at AARC.

OPC conducted a discovery phase with AARC stakeholders to produce the IA and UI design, on top of final designs before development commenced. The site was launched in January 2020.

In 2022, OPC has developed the Office of the Chief Scientist of Australia website on the Drupal 9 Platform. - www.chiefscientist.gov.au.

This was a huge redevelopment project that involved redeveloping an existing Drupal 7 website on to Drupal 9 on the GovCMS9 SaaS environment. We took the opportunity to maximise the users digital experience and refresh the look and feel of the website while supporting the internal communications team to revise and improve the content.

This project was quite complex and spanned across two websites. We developed the RGS website on the GOVCMS9 SaaS Platform as well and ensured that both websites were developed with a user centred focus. We continue to work with ARC and RGS to deliver exciting new functionalities to their website.

Our team had the honour of being selected to redevelop the Department of Defence’s Army website - www.army.gov.au.

With the appointment of the new Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) on the 1st of July 2019, the Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General sought the development and design of a new website based on the GovCMS 8 distribution and standard templates.

Due to a tight deadline the Office decided to engage a supplier with extensive GovCMS 8 experience to develop the website on the new platform and associated distribution. OPC was chosen as the preferred supplier for this prestigious project.

OPC values the lengthy association with the Governor-General’s IT team, dating back to 2002. More recent projects include the development of the Governor General’s Drupal 8 intranet and developing the previous Governor-General’s website when General Sir Peter John Cosgrove, AK, CVO, MC was appointed in 2014.

The new Governor-General’s website utilises the GovCMS 8 UI-Kit to help deliver a modern, clean, responsive website befitting the status of the Office.

The development, forklift and launch of the site from start to finish was a total of 4 weeks.

Over a 6 week period, from project commencement to live implementation, OPC launched a GovCMS website for the new Department of Health governing body, the Sport Integrity Australia Taskforce. - www.sportintegrity.gov.au.

The redevelopment project was fairly straight forward, with the ACIC website being a fairly simple information and publication website.  The major developments of note would be the handful of complicated Webforms that would need to be developed, and the various user access required in order to protect some behind a login.

Rather than simply running a Drupal 8 upgrade over the existing Drupal 7 website, the decision was made to redevelop it from scratch in order to both take advantage of the base level Drupal 8 features, as well as to ensure that no legacy configuration was brought across that may cause issues during later development.

This allowed us to easily cull and merge field functionality into something more streamlined and easy to use without having the site cluttered with legacy data. It also allowed us to migrate the content for pages into Paragraphs, allowing for more rich content to be added by the content authors in the future.

The development progressed in a fairly straightforward manner, migrating content across both manually for basic page content, and then using Views and Feeds to export/import to bring across the Reports.

Static pages from the old site were replaced with automated Views of Reports based on the various new metadata fields that were added.

One of the complicated webforms on the site is used by Police officers around Australia to run checks on Firearms that have been confiscated.  This required creating multiple custom user roles in order to submit and view submissions of the form.

While there have been some small issues with DNS configuration and server email security, the site itself has been running very well with only minor fixes required post launch.

Constantly providing web development services to the ORIC - www.oric.gov.au.

The Department was looking to work with a local Canberra company with significant Drupal and govCMS experience that they could trust, in order to meet their timeframe for the need to renewal of their Sharepoint licenses. The DET knew that OPC had the skills and local resources to undertake such a large body of work.

The five DET websites cover a wide range of subject matter including requirements and procedures for higher education, overseas study, assistance for financing tertiary study, skills assessment and licence recognition.

The challenge OPC faced in migrating these websites was to replicate SharePoint functionality as closely as possible in Drupal, particularly ensuring that it worked within the govCMS SaaS confines and environment. 

Key to the success of migrating all 5 sites was understanding the limitations and methods when developing for a SaaS solution. OPC developers were able to do this using a number of key govCMS modules, primary of which was the "Feeds' module suite that allowed our developers to take a number of complex data exports from the SharePoint source and to then manipulate and consolidate ready for import into the Drupal CMS. One site has subsequently been decommissioned.

The sites included:

1. HEIMSHELP - Information about requirements and procedures for higher education and VET providers.
2. Licence Recognition - Information about how an occupational licence or registration obtained in one state or territory can be recognised in another.
3. Study Assist - Information for students about government assistance for financing tertiary study.
4. Trade Recognition Australia - Skills assessment service provider specialising in assessments for people with trade skills gained overseas or in Australia.

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