Center for Gender & Refugee Studies : Internet

The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) is the nation’s leading organization supporting women asylum-seekers fleeing gender related harm, at both the practice and policy levels. CGRS works to impact the development of law and policy to protect women fleeing gender-based violence. CGRS was established in 1999 and is housed at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Services Website redesign, Development Technologies - PHP - MySQL - HTML/DHTML

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Sight Design has worked closely with CGRS to create a website that is approachable by both the public and law professionals. A key component has been the migration of all database systems from MSAccess to a private suite of web-based tools using MySQL.

1. The existing website was redesigned with attention to the various types of users
2. Sight Design rewrote and normalized the various databases used by CGRS including Case law, Research, and Funders. member registration and driver report purchases
3. A query and report engine allows administrators to pull specific subsets of data
4. Administrators are able to publish chosen Case and Law records for searching and viewing at the website, controlling what parts of a resource record may be seen live