Initial situation
Two of Cosmos Verlag’s most popular publications in the greater Bern area provide detailed information on taxes and customs. Since 1946, Steuer Revue has become the largest independent specialist journal for taxation in Switzerland, while Zoll Revue has been aimed at practitioners from business, industry and administration since 2016.
Goals and vision
The new website focuses on two topics. The classic content management system was to become a multichannel publishing platform, while a complex authorisation system was to enable highly personalised access to individual areas. Identity also needed a complete visual overhaul. Here we were able to bring Rino Wenger on board.
The project
The new development in 2019 centred on a system of specialist articles that can be assigned to subject areas and issues. Based on this, certain content can now be reserved or prioritised for specific member groups, and we have rounded off the access controls with a multi-stage onboarding process.
In a subsequent phase, the information search was accelerated by a separate, extended search function and I have also been able to implement various other measures with Cosmos Verlag over the last few years. For example, the automatic generation of PDFs, automatic tools for the conversion of imported, footnoted content from a third-party editorial system, as well as ongoing improvements and enhancements to the block editor and various page and article layouts.
