A small Cape Town company designed and implemented the new Nelson Mandela Children`s Fund portal that uses embedded editing technology and e-commerce principles to give the charity a worldwide Internet and intranet presence.
The Factory, headed by founder Pieter Smits van Waesberghe, took two months to set up the site. The work was done as a donation for the charity, which handles R26 million worth of children`s welfare projects in SA.
Waesberghe, a Dutch citizen now living in Cape Town, says he has regularly contributed to the fund for four years and when he heard that it needed a new Web site, he volunteered his company`s services.
The group also built an intranet needed as part of a revamp of the whole charity organisation. An official opening of the fund`s new offices will be held in Johannesburg next week. The Web site went live on 1 March.
Features of the site include an overview of the major projects the charity is involved with, the financial statements, and the ability for donations to be made online. Future plans include an online shop.
The site has a multilingual content management application that can automatically translate an article into any of the five languages it supports.
The secure transactional engine can run reports 'on the fly` and the payment gateway can cope with multi-currency credit card transactions.
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