“Soliant's integrity impressed me: rather than write a website and database from scratch (which would have been a larger, costlier project for us), they implemented a free open-source system that not only met our needs but set us up with a wide range of future options.”

Open Source on the Open Range: the Right Tool for the Job

Colorado Preservation, Inc., a non-profit organization, buys historic real estate and properties across the state of Colorado. They support a wide range of communities and have a significant collection of media and articles that span dozens of sites.

They came to Soliant faced with a daunting challenge: how to both organize and publish all their rich source material online – in a world of constrained resources and the reality that staff members and volunteers required an intuitive, non-technical way to manage their website. Their opportunity lay in sharing with their constituencies all the rich historical information and research they continue to painstakingly assemble for the properties they’ve been tasked to preserve.

The non-profit needed not only a web site in support of their mandate but also an authoring tool. Rather than reinvent the wheel, Soliant’s team turned to Drupal, an open-source content management system, which would serve both as a platform and as a publishing engine for the organization. Once deployed, volunteers and staff members could then write articles, select templates, and post new content to their site directly from a web browser.

The result extended dramatically CPI’s ability to deliver information to members, reach far-flung communities across the state of Colorado, and drive traffic to their site.

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