Services for Australian Rural & Remote Allied Health
Moving a national allied health peak body from Drupal to Joomla while keeping CiviCRM and its membership and donation data intact, with a new design for public and members-only content.
Overview
sarrah.org.auServices for Australian Rural & Remote Allied Health (SARRAH) is the peak body for allied health professionals working in rural and remote Australia. The site ran on Drupal, with CiviCRM handling memberships and donations. Drupal had become a maintenance burden. The brief was to move off Drupal while keeping CiviCRM and its member and donor database intact, then give the public site and members-only area a new design.
What we did
- Drupal-to-Joomla migration
- CiviCRM preservation and re-integration
- Membership and donation database migration
- Custom design for public and members-only content
- Members-only content gating
- Mobile-first responsive build
Tech stack
The Project
A national membership body, off Drupal without losing the data.
SARRAH needed to retire Drupal without losing CiviCRM or the years of member and donor data in it.
SARRAH represents allied health professionals working in some of the most remote parts of Australia: physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists and others delivering care where metropolitan services don't reach. Drupal was the part of their site that had become a problem. CiviCRM was the part nobody could afford to lose.
CiviCRM holds years of member records, donation history, event registrations and communications. It runs the organisation. So the job split in two: replace Drupal with a CMS that was easier to maintain (Joomla), and re-integrate CiviCRM with the new platform without disturbing the database underneath.
The Joomla front end has a new design across the public site and the members-only area. Content gating gives members the resources their subscription pays for, while the rest of the site stays open to the wider rural and remote health community. CiviCRM still handles memberships, donations and operations: same data, same workflows for the staff who rely on it.
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