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Plant once, grow everywhere.

ANS Global's case studies link to locations, applications, products and technical articles. Its new Drupal site lets editors publish a case study once and see it on the pages it relates to.

Client
ANS Global, living walls and green roofs
Sector
Living walls and green roofs
Services
Design implementation, Drupal build, content feeds, geocoded maps
Engagement
March to November 2016, then support until May 2021
David Attenborough abseiling a 50ft tall living wall.
Image: Copyright ANS Global⁠ (opens in a new tab), used with permission.
At a glance
800+
green roof merchants that visitors search on one map
400+
case studies moved from four old websites into one
1
upload per case study, and the site shows it on each related page
1. The challenge

Content with many connections.

ANS Global wanted a site that matched their new brand and hid the complex links between their content. Its editors also needed to add pages daily without calling a developer.

ANS Global is a full-service living wall and green roof company. Its case studies link to locations, applications, environments, technical articles and products, and each country it works in has a member of staff as the main contact.

The brief set four goals: a clean design in line with a recent rebrand, easier navigation, related content on technical pages and a faster site. ANS Global's SEO agency also needed more control over the SEO of each page.

The new site replaced four older websites. More than 400 case studies moved across by hand in content sprints, because the old sites had no structure an automated migration could use.

2. What we built

A Drupal site built on tagged content.

The ANS Global living wall case studies page on an iPad.
★★★★★
“Thank you all for your hard work on the website. The result is fantastic and a tremendous step forward from our previous websites. I'm looking forward to working together to further improve the site with more phases of development and additional content.”
Mark Chambers smiling, with short side-parted hair, wearing a checked shirt, in front of low ground-cover plants.
Mark Chambers
Marketing Manager, ANS Global
3. The result

Less admin, fresher pages.

  1. 1

    Publish once

    ANS Global's staff create content once and the site shows it in the right places, with less admin for each new post.

  2. 2

    Landing pages stay current

    Landing pages pick up new case studies and articles as editors add them, which keeps them relevant for search engines.

  3. 3

    SEO in editors' hands

    Editors add alt text to images and meta tags to pages, and the site compresses, crops and caches images for them.

  4. 4

    A local merchant finder

    Visitors can find their local green roof merchant from over 800 on one interactive map.

  5. 5

    Five years of support

    Pivale kept the site secure and up to date, upgraded it to each new major version of Drupal and added content and features with ANS Global's team until May 2021.

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