Described as the site “where the health community meets,” the National Health Council’s Web site re-design goals were to provide its members and visitors with content organized and displayed in a modern, easily navigated layout. In addition, the site required a public area, accessible by all visitors as well as a members-only, password-protected area.

Fig Leaf Software accomplished these goals by updating the National Health Council’s public Web site with a more colorful, graphical representation for the homepage and navigation, while using a variety of Macromedia tools to build and maintain a back-end publishing and maintenance system. Macromedia’s Fireworks product facilitated the creation of the cross browser/cross platform pop-up menu navigation system. Macromedia’s Dreamweaver/UltraDev provided the basis for an easily managed template system that generates all of the pages in the Web site. A custom, ColdFusion based administration section allows the Web site administrator to add, edit and delete pages while maintaining a consistent layout and style throughout the Web site. Fig Leaf Software also developed a login system for the member’s only and administration areas using ColdFusion.