Convivial Gov Site Template

Overview

Convivial Gov is a ready-made website for government organisations. It’s built on the Morphos theme and Drupal Canvas, and packaged with Drupal’s site template framework, so the same site can be installed again and again instead of being rebuilt for each project.

The challenge

We needed a standard set of pages and components a government site can launch with, all of it reusable. The whole site had to fit in a site template that installs cleanly and keeps working as Morphos and Canvas release new versions.

My role

• Lead developer: I built the website itself, its pages and components in Canvas.
• Template owner: I exported the site as a site template and maintain it, keeping the components up to date between versions.

The solution

We used a custom site template, built on Drupal’s site template framework, to push out reusable sites. The template exports the pages, components and configuration together, so a new site starts from an install.

The impact

A single script installs a complete site with 20 custom components ready to use in Canvas and a fully built style guide. A new site spins up in minutes with test data and style guide pages, ready to duplicate and build on.