This is the oldest, largest and most important postal company in the Argentine Republic, which has been operating since 1748. Since 1806 the Postal Service has played an important role, from the area of internal communications, in the development of the country . In 1997 it was privatized and in 2003 it returned to the hands of the State.

Project goals:

Having a self-managing platform that gives administrators flexibility and autonomy in content management. Different areas of the site are handled by different user roles. Achieve clear and friendly navigation of all content, enhanced by quality graphic design. Neatly and efficiently integrate external applications, such as postal code lookup, track & track shipments and search for branches. Incorporate a stamp shop.

Development:

The website mainly has three areas: institutional information sections (includes information on the Post, products/services and news), philately section (includes the store) and integration with external applications (postal code search, track & ; trace shipments and search for branches). In addition, the following aspects should be highlighted:

  • Navigation - The main menu was made by integrating menus, panels and views. Also, sitemap, breadcrumbs and other modules were used.
  • Ecommerce - The Drupal Commerce solution was used to browse, purchase and order philately products.
  • Slideshows - Both in the homepage and in the presentation of the institutional or philately sections, slideshows were used to enhance the visual appeal of the information presented. The complexity of this part lies in the stylization (theming).
  • Theming in general - The styling of the site can be considered intermediate / advanced level. There are complex sections such as the main menu, the philately section, the slideshows in general and the display on tablets and cell phones. For this project we use the Adaptive Theme as a base.
  • SEO - Several modules were installed to optimize the SEO aspects of the solution, including those related to page titles, metatags, automatic URL generation and other more technical ones.

Key modules used:

  • Context - For site-wide block placement.
  • Superfish, Panels, Views - For the main menu with sub-items
  • Views Slideshow, FlexSlider, Video, Quicktabs - For home tabs/slideshows and other sections.
  • SimpleAds - For the site's internal banner system.
  • Colorbox - There are areas where a gallery is shown with thumbnails that when clicking on the photo does not need to go to the node, but the image is enlarged and displayed at the appropriate size.
  • Page Title, Metatag, Pathauto, Transliteration - Fundamental for the assembly of the urls of the site.
  • Faq, Sitemap, Back to top, SimpleMenu - For navigation plugins.
  • reCaptcha - For spam control.