Science|Business

sciencebusiness.net

Science|Business exists to bring together three worlds which should work together but too often stumble apart: industry, research and policy.

Science|Business is a European news and media organisation, counting Google, Microsoft, CERN and several European top universities amongst its members. It publishes about a dozen articles a week, sells reports, and hosts events.

I worked with Science|Business to create a new website that was modern, clean, and professional, with a strong emphasis on the user experience. This included restructuring site navigation and content taxonomies to improve access by users and editors.

Technical details

The site is built on Drupal 8, with a custom theme based on Zurb Foundation.

Reports are sold via WebForm, using cURL to validate VAT numbers against the VIES database, and using the Stripe API for processing payments.

I wrote a custom import script to manage the import of the 8,500+ articles and associated files from the old website.