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SEDAN Analytics — SAKS Website

A professional website for SEDAN Analytics and Knowledge Solutions (SAKS), a research and analytics organisation. The site showcases the organisation's research services, publications, team, and thought leadership blog. An admin CMS allows staff to publish articles and update service listings. Built with PHP/MySQL and a clean Bootstrap-based UI with dynamic hero text and service sections managed through a database.


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Key Features

8 features built into this project

Research services showcase
Admin CMS for blog and content
Dynamic hero text from database
Team and leadership profiles
Publications and reports archive
Service page management
Contact form with admin notifications
Mobile responsive Bootstrap layout

Challenges & Solutions

Technical problems encountered during development and how each was resolved.

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Making the hero section fully editable by non-technical SAKS staff — without them touching code — required abstracting the hero_title and about_text into a site_settings database table with a clean admin form. The challenge was handling rich-text formatting (line breaks, bold) from a plain textarea input safely, using nl2br() and a strict HTML whitelist to prevent XSS while preserving intentional formatting.