# The technical layer behind member and publishing sites

[Source](https://listentosee.com/work/b17-partner-portals-and-publishing)

Member registration and payment integration for an association launch, plus a completed CMS publishing migration for a separate client.

Client: A business association and a professional publishing business, through a design partner.

Historical engagement years: 2010–2011.

Sectors: Technology & media.

Related services: [Automation and Integration](https://listentosee.com/services/automation-and-integration).

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## Context

A design partner's clients needed more than visual redesign: one business association required member and event functionality, while an author/training business needed a maintainable publishing site.

## Engagement

We supplied technical implementation and troubleshooting alongside the partner's design and client work in separate 2010–2011 engagements.

## What we delivered

- For the association: user and permission configuration, membership-data import, event/registration tools, and payment-gateway testing and troubleshooting.
- Launch support that resolved core technology issues, with remaining configuration and redirects handled around the opening.
- For the publishing business: podcast and broken-link support, WordPress-to-Joomla migration, imported articles/pages, and reconnection of image, article and book links.
- Follow-up platform advice and technical mentoring for the design partner.

## Outcome

The association announced its site opening in October 2011 and credited the design partner's work and our technical contribution. The publishing migration has a completion invoice acknowledged in October 2010.

These were shared deliveries with distinct client scopes. Later e-commerce and training-platform ideas are separate from the completed portal and publishing work.

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