Convivial for GovCMS

Fast track the build of your site with this personalisation-enabled, feature-rich starter site optimised for the GovCMS platform.

Convivial for GovCMS approach

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Empowering editors

Convivial for GovCMS comprises a suite of editor tools for creating, structuring and classifying content through metadata and taxonomies. It empowers editors to craft rich content and easily create consumable micro-content supported by digital asset management.

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Adaptive presentation

With a structured content model and a set of common content types at the core, the content owner can create timely chunks of content personalised to the user's journey on a variety of devices and contexts. The presentational layer is built with a mobile-first approach with responsive layouts. 

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Personalisation

A personalised experience for users will help them achieve their goals and will allow the organisation to communicate more directly and persuasively with them. Convivial makes use of a variety of personalisation techniques to serve individual promotions and calls to action depending on the user's attributes and their stage in a journey. With GovCMS personalisation, there is no need to authenticate users or employ a CDP to manage user data.

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Content as a service

An omnichannel DXP needs to support content delivery to a variety of devices and platforms. These can include native apps, other websites, in store displays, recommendation engines and email delivery platforms. Convivial for GovCMS makes use of JSON API to serve content in machine understandable formats. This functionality ships out of the box and can be configured by site builders using ‘no-code’ tools.

Optimised for GovCMS

Morpht has developed Convivial for GovCMS as a Drupal starter site that is easy to ramp up and adapt to your business needs.  

With a component-driven architecture, Convivial for GovCMS reduces the time spent reinventing the wheel and helps you focus on solving your business needs with a site built to modern standards and accessible to a wide range of audiences.  

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Frequently asked questions

Yes, significantly more than in previous versions. Drupal CMS 2.0 introduced Drupal Canvas, a visual drag-and-drop page builder. Morpht's Convivial for GovCMS extends this with a comprehensive no-code theming layer built on Tailwind CSS and DaisyUI, where colour palettes, typography, colour schemes, skins, layout modifiers, and component options are all configurable through theme settings without writing code. Site owners can apply campaign-specific skins, toggle dark mode, configure animated backgrounds, and adjust layout regions entirely through the user interface.

Convivial for GovCMS provides extensive no-code design control through its theme settings layer, which drives CSS variables across the site. Key capabilities include: colour palettes for branding discrete page sections; colour schemes for light and dark modes; skins that bundle colours, effects, and settings for campaigns or sub-sites; background options including solid colour, image, video, parallax, gradient, and texture; scroll reveal animations; menu styles (simple, dropdown, or megamenu); a built-in contrast checker for accessibility compliance; and per-region palette assignment. These remove the need for a front-end developer for routine design customisation.

Convivial for GovCMS ships with a large library of Single Directory Components (SDC) that editors and site builders can assemble into pages without developer assistance. Components include accordions, cards, charts, content tabs, decision flows, galleries, GeoCharts, image comparisons, item lists, lightboxes, maps, media lists, sliders, stats, timelines, and more. Each component has its own display and layout options. The component library dramatically reduces the build time for new page types and campaign pages, while ensuring visual consistency and accessibility compliance across the site.

Yes. Convivial for GovCMS is specifically designed to empower content strategists and marketing teams to build campaign-quality pages without developer involvement. The no-code page layout tools, component library, and skin system allow teams to create visually distinct campaign experiences, including branded colour treatments, hero imagery, animated statistics, and promotional blocks, within the guardrails of the design system. This significantly reduces the agency cost and turnaround time for campaign delivery compared to traditional bespoke development.

Convivial for GovCMS uses Drupal's Layout Builder combined with a rich component library of Single Directory Components. Drupal CMS 2.0 also introduced Drupal Canvas as a visual page builder for new installations. For enterprise builds, Morpht selects the appropriate combination of Layout Builder, paragraphs, and SDC components based on the site's complexity and editorial requirements. The goal is always to give content editors and marketers as much self-service capability as possible, reducing ongoing dependency on development resources.

Morpht offers a rapid demonstration programme for government agencies wanting to assess Convivial for GovCMS before committing to a full build. In this engagement, Morpht configures a working GovCMS site using Convivial's out-of-the-box features; components, design settings, personalisation tools, and content types in a single intensive session. This gives decision-makers and content teams a concrete, hands-on sense of the platform's capabilities and editor experience, dramatically reducing the risk and uncertainty of the procurement decision.

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