THE PROBLEM
ALUR’s website had gone more than ten years without a structural overhaul. Built in PHP in 2014, it had a contentarchitecture that made internal updates difficult, didn’t respond on mobile devices, and no longer met the security standards a public institution of its scale requires. The problem wasn’t aesthetic — it was infrastructure.
THE STRATEGIC DECISION
The technology migration was the core of the project. We chose Drupal as the destination platform for three specific reasons: robust security for institutional environments, a content architecture that ALUR’s team could manage autonomously, and the capacity to scale without technical debt. The visual redesign supported the migration — not the other way around. First we resolved the structure, content hierarchy, and administration flows. Then we built an interface that reflected the institutional weight of the organization and worked across every device.