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Money Weekly 20th & 21st Anniversary Sites
Campaign & Advocacy Sites 01/01/2020

Money Weekly 20th & 21st Anniversary Sites

A campaign site in a week — by not building it a system

2020 | Campaign Site | Money Weekly Group | ASP.NET MVC + WebForm, C#, MSSQL | ~1 week each | SA to QA

Developed while employed by a previous organisation; copyright remains with them. Shown here to illustrate technical capability only.

Two anniversaries, a week each

Brand history, a charity event, offers, a personality quiz, guest messages. A week was enough not because there was little to do, but because nothing started from zero.

Built onto the existing site, not beside it

Each year became an extra section with its own front end, sharing the same database and changing no columns. No new project, no new database, and no new publishing workflow to teach the client.

The worst thing to do with a campaign site is build it a system

A campaign lives for a few weeks; a separate project and database do not end when it does. They become maintenance debt nobody remembers but the server still runs. Built as a section of an existing system, it can simply be retired.

Money Weekly 20th & 21st Anniversary Sites

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Not because there was little to do, but because nothing started from zero: each year became an extra section of the existing site with its own front end, sharing the database and changing no columns.

Brand history, a charity event, offers, a personality quiz and guest messages. Technology: ASP.NET MVC + WebForm, C# and MSSQL, SA to QA. It was developed while I was employed by a previous organisation, which holds the copyright.

A campaign lives for a few weeks, but a separate project and database do not end with it and become maintenance debt. As a section of an existing system it can simply be retired.

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