Crescent Hill Books
About Crescent Hill Books
Crescent Hill Books (CHB) is a book producer, hired by large publishing companies to handle all aspects of book publishing (except sales and distribution). Located in Louisville, KY, CHB receives artwork submissions from thousands of graphic artists and design firms from all over the world. The best work is selected with the help of one or more experts. In addition to selecting the work, CHB writes and edits supporting copy, and designs and lays out the complete book.
Overcoming limitations
Crescent Hill Books wanted to replace its current web-based tool to manage artwork submissions because it was very slow, unwieldy, and difficult to use. The tool did not allow for an integrated administrative interface across all the books currently being produced. CHB also wanted to establish its brand by having its website as a place designers visit at least once a month to submit art for new book projects.
Overhauled Submission Management System
Mission Data's excellent programming knowledge, superb communication skills and prompt responses to all questions has made our partnership a success.
Nancy Heinonen, Publications Director
Mission Data was selected to design and develop a web-based administrative tool to manage the artwork submissions. The Submission Management System solution consists of a custom built content management system that enables visitors to upload high resolution artwork and CHB to update information on book projects seeking submissions. The MySQL database driven site allows those who regularly submit to the site to not repeatedly enter contact information. The large sized images are stored using Amazon’s S3 cloud-based storage services.
Increased efficiencies and workflow
Crescent Hill Books is able to streamline the process of accepting submissions, managing deadlines, evaluating artwork for inclusion in a book project, and coordinating the efforts of the book author, copy editor, and designer. The visitors to the site are satisfied with a more efficient way of contributing their work and are receiving more timely communications on where they stand in the selection process. CHB has seen increased traffic to its website, with the number of hits doubling since the submission system launch. Mission Data’s managed services are being used for hosting and site maintenance.