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Cascais is a coastal town 30 kilometers west of Lisbon, Portugal. It is a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital and one of the richest municipalities in Portugal. In its humble beginnings, Cascais lived from the products of the sea and land and since the Middle Ages, Cascais has lived from fishing, maritime commerce, and from agriculture, producing wine, olive oil, cereals and fruit.
The municipality is a place where you can always find the right information about the area you live in, whether you are looking for facts about the area, regulations for sea protection or scenic walks in the beautiful nature. “How is it possible for the municipality to communicate such diverse information to the public?“, you might ask. Many other local governments have websites, where the information you can find is quite limited. In Cascais however you can find the information not just in one website, but five all together: www.cascaisnatura.org, www.cascaisenergia.org, www.cascaisatlantico.org, www.agendacascais21.net and in time a fifth one. In all five of the sub sites you can find calendars displaying the events of the municipality.
| The licenses for the websites are properties of a municipal company called “DNA Cascais”. This company has several different agencies specialized in different areas of information. The idea was to build different websites that would share the same philosophy and contents. Each one of these websites has specialized in themes such as environment and nature (cascaisnatura.org), energy saving (cascaisenergia.org), sea protection and management (cascaisatlantico.org), facts and events of the area (agendacascais21.net) and finally the last website with an agenda focused on the younger population, that will go live very soon. |
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Handle more than one website with Dynamicweb.
Before they only had the one website, but it wasn’t quite enough. To maintain all five sites in the same way was a whole new challenge. They wanted to have a custom made solution to develop all these new websites. The required features could be easily implemented with a Dynamicweb solution that provided many more features than the required, with a lower cost.
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After a quick demonstration the client was thrilled with several standard features such as the Newsletter features, advanced statistics, news control, information sharing across several websites, possibility to manage several frontends in the same solution and, of course, the ease of use
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Ricardo Alencastre
- CEO, Dynamicweb Portugal
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The main differences between the old CMS and Dynamicweb are technological and cannot be seen by a regular user. The usability of Dynamicweb is the main key point. These websites were easily implemented using standard functionalities. The solution was developed over a Portal license using several modules such as Extranet/Intranet Extended, Forms Extended, Forum, Surveys, Dealer locator, Newsletter extended, Search and News. The idea was that the websites should have different contents but that the designs should be similar and for this job the company used Transglobal.
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We provided a quick training for the users that are going to manage the contents of the five websites. Most of them didn’t have any previous experience using a CMS solution but they understood the concepts very easily. |
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Ricardo Alencastre
- CEO, Dynamicweb Portugal
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This prosperous municipality is largely in favor of protecting the environment and by openly comminucating the initiatives and steps that are taken towards ensuring a sustainable environment; they hope to inspire the public to take part in the protection and to feel proud that such issues are dealt with in the area where they reside.
Cascais in short
Cascais is a coastal town 30 kilometers west of Lisbon, Portugal. It is a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital and one of the richest municipalities in Portugal. In its humble beginnings, Cascais lived from the products of the sea and land and since the Middle Ages: fishing, maritime commerce, and from agriculture, producing wine, olive oil, cereals and fruit.
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