CMS and Website Design and Development for the Rival Owners Association

We've been working with the Rival Owners Association, developing new features for the website's Content Management System (CMS) and adding new design elements to the Rival Owners Association website.

The Rival Owners Association (ROA) was Founded in 1974 by Peter Brett, the designer of the Rival. The ROA is an Association of past and present owners of Rival yachts, with the aim of promoting friendly contact between owners and crews worldwide. The ROA offers help and encouragement to all Rival owners, whether in their home waters or undertaking long distance cruises, as well as those looking to buy a Rival. The ROA also provides a forum for discussion about alterations to existing boats and advice regarding completion of hulls.

We've worked with the ROA to develop the website's member area and integrated forum; allowing members to subscribe and receive email alerts when new topics are being discussed. The email alerts including all discussion content and images allowing those in areas of poor connectivity to keep up to date when unable to load full content from the website.

We've also worked with the ROA to develop the website's forum user experience. We've integrated a custom combination of CKEditror, Dropzone.js, and Codeignitor, to allow users to easily add images to posts by dragging and dropping. On dragging images into a post the CMS then handles resize, upload, and posting automatically.

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