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Site URL: 

http://linerider.com

Community site for the hit game Line Rider with user profiles, submitted videos, rating, and extensive forums. It is a high traffic site with over 230,000 registered users in the first 3 months.

Site URL: 

http://youngwritersproject.org

This site represents 18 months of on-the-fly learning and development by a director of a non-profit. Premium has been functionality and reacting to what the teen writers wanted. Have had considerable help from Drupal community along the way.

The site is designed to help us engage students to write, help them improve and help us publish their best work. What has happened in very short order is that these young writers have developed their own safe, respectful community. The energy is amazing. They’ve organized their own Winter Writing Conference, staged user presidential primaries and debates and, of course, established an energy and tone in which hundreds of kids comment on each other’s work each day.

We have about 2,100 registered student users (we screen users to ensure safety) who have, since September 2007 submitted 2,500 pieces to our Newspaper Series (five daily newspaper partners publish best work each week); an additional 4,000 blog posts — poetry mostly; 17,000 comments.

Other features: Other partners — radio stations, TV station, performing arts groups — also present student work; trained top college students serve as mentors and have provided feedback to about 1,100 young writers; students are reading and then reacting to RSS news feeds to the site in our newsblog and, most recently, audio stories which, of course, we call podcasts.

Keep in mind we only serve Vermont and part of New Hampshire, which is a tiny area — a pool of about 60,000 students, but we are getting about 15,000 student visits a month. We have participation from about 225+ schools.

Our basic design is simple — and does need work; it is a modification of a Roople Theme. Student users have provided and continue to provide us considerable feedback through several online surveys and the forums; they are particularly expressive in terms of functionality and features.

So the site servers our mission well — Kids are writing; they’re having fun and they’re learning. Cool.

Site URL: 

http://vineyardvoice.org

The Vineyard Voice — www.vineyardvoice.org — is an online “monthly” issues and ideas magazine for Martha’s Vineyard and a community publishing resource/platform for communities undergoing change. Economic change on this island continues to uproot and destabilize families, and the community is responding in phenomenal ways. To help people share knowledge and to voice their own ideas there is a real need for independent community-driven journalism that reports in-depth on issues facing people here.

Each month The Vineyard Voice focusses on one issue generated by the community and directly involves islanders in the reporting and publication of in-depth stories around the issue. We help people publish by supplying the knowledge and tools to write, record and produce content that matters to the community.

We have two goals. Our main goal is to become The community publishing and issue-based news and information magazine for the island. Our long-term goal is to prove the technology and the process of engaging communities in this form of journalism and then to give the platform away to community-builders and to journalists in small to mid-sized communities — everywhere.

We welcome any conversation about this site and are glad to share our process of development and hope to hear from you. We look forward to meeting everybody in Boston.

Thanks to Jerad Bitner and Dave Burns of Sony BMG and to Shawn Priesz for all their work and to Ted Serbinski for his unparalleled assistance.

Patrick Phillips
Founder and Publisher

Site URL: 

http://www.droge.com/

This site uses an early version of the AMFPHP module for Flash to Drupal communication, and custom node types for each bit of content.

Site URL: 

http://adsoftheworld.com

Ads of the World is a commercial advertising archive and community showcasing the best and most interesting creative work worldwide. It is running image and video modules.

The site has seen continued growth posing unique challenges in terms of performance and resource utilization. By carefully tuning the servers and Drupal, we handled this growth quite adequately without introducing complexity.

Site URL: 

http://tv2sport.dk/

News site for the largest sport tv channel in Denmark. More than 50 new articles written every day, plus live scores for the largest football, handball and hockey competitions in Europe.

Integrated with Amazon Web Services:

• S3: Content uploaded from the site. ImageCache images are created from a S3 master.
• EC2: Created a push system so files delivered from the live score partner are online within 5 seconds.

Site URL: 

http://www.wholegrainscouncil.org

Website redesign for The Whole Grains Council - www.wholegrainscouncil.org- a non-profit consumer advocacy group working to increase consumption of whole grains for better health.

The Whole Grains Council has achieved great success with it’s whole grain stamp, which was named “Packaging Innovation of the Year” in 2006 and is used by companies like General Mills, Kashi, Quaker Oats and Nestlé.

Our goal was to create a user-friendly space where consumers, educators, food service professionals and food companies could go to get involved in the whole grains movement. The site features in-depth information about whole grains, as well as recipes and a product finder to help consumers find products with whole grains.

A members only section allows members to download stamp graphics for use on products and submit their products for review and inclusion on The Whole Grains Council website. We also integrated CiviCRM to allow the Whole Grains staff to manage member information, and used Workflow to help the Whole Grains staff manage the membership and product approval process.

We welcome comments and are happy to share our insights into the development process. See you in Boston!

Site URL: 

http://www.swnhlaw.com

Website redesign for Samdperil & Welsh - www.swnhlaw.com - an experienced Exeter, NH law firm.

Our focus was to create a more effective online presence to showcase the firm’s capabilities and qualifications, while achieving high organic SEO.

Site URL: 

http://www.listpilot.com/

ListPilot is a company that sells email marketing and online discussion forum services. They needed a site to better market their services. It uses the book module for a community-driven “wiki” of best practices in the industry.

Site URL: 

http://www.citmedialaw.org/

The Citizen Media Law Project is a place where citizen journalists (like bloggers) can begin to research the dark and scary world of the law as it relates to them. In particularly, Redfin worked to get two main aspects of the site off and running. The legal threats database is a collection of CCK nodes, each of which documents a distinct legal threat (i.e. a DMCA takedown notice, a threat to sue, etc) made against a citizen journalist. A citizen journalist can browse or search the threats for one which might have similarities to the one they might be in.

The Legal Guide is intended to provide basic information regarding the laws that relate to citizen journalists (i.e. “What is defamation, and can I be sued for it?”). Each state in the U.S. will have its own section on how the general law changes from state to state.

Site URL: 

http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu

Redfin built a completely new site for Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies program (CMES). It has a resource scheduler, calendar of events, extensively utilizes views, and we are currently working on a member profile/search for members of the community. It has some slightly different themes based on which section of the CMES you are concerned with (their academic programs, their newsletter, or their community outreach center).

Site URL: 

http://www.deweytico.com

I have an assistantship at grad school, and for the work I’ve been creating an educational site in Drupal for my professor. He teaches 3D modeling and animation, and also wanted a personal site.

We used the Andreas01 theme (I had to make some adjustments).

We extensively utilize Organic Groups to separate classes out, along with OG Vocab - so that each OG can classify its assignments however they like. We’re also using Image, as well as CCK Imagefield with ImageCache. OG Resetter comes in super-handy, too.

The shared hosting provider doesn’t support ffmpeg, so in lieu of video.module, we created our own CCK node type and are theming “animations” to embed the video.

Site URL: 

http://www.ecoalign.com

The EcoAlign web site was designed by studio:module with a limited budget to position a new DC-based marketing firm as an upstart in an industry dominated by giants. As such, the site was designed to break a number of rules for web design and make a strong first impression for the new agency.

From a design point of view, it showcases the how far Drupal’s Zen theme can be pushed for a fresh, innovative look and feel. The three column grid was swapped with the main column being on the right. The layout combines photo collage with hand-drawn line work for an airy overall feel.

About Ecoalign
EcoAlign is a strategic marketing agency focused on the energy and environment space. Its mission is to align consumer behavior with energy and environmental needs for products, services and programs. Ecoalign evaluates, creates and executes alignment through a set of unique research techniques, insightful strategy and innovative communication approaches.

Early successes
Only two months out of the gate, Ecoalign is competing with the likes of Ogilvy and JWT for large-scale advertising and marketing projects in the energy industry. The company’s research is being downloaded and cited by other analysts and the business media.
The web site is positive proof of the power that good design, solid messaging, and the Internet can have on an emerging company.

Studio Module
Claudio Luis Vera, creative director
Alisha Haydn Vera, designer
Richard Roth, developer
Felix Arteaga, developer

Site URL: 

http://v10.vday.org

The V10 site was designed to encompass every aspect of the tenth anniversary year for V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Culminating in a large celebration in New Orleans, the site allows the visitor to experience a snapshot of what VDay has grown into.

The site includes profiles of many of the movement’s activists, including Jane Fonda and Kerry Washington, an interactive timeline of V-Day’s history, a news room, and even a ride board to go to the celebration.

The activist profiles required the integration of numerous clips into video galleries which in turn were integrated with text profiles on the various activists — this presented a daunting technical challenge with integrating video, flash, and the content management system.

In spite of its scope, the V10 web site was developed in three months with a limited budget using Drupal, an open-source content management system.

About V-Day
V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. In 2006, over 2700 V-Day benefit events took place by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.

The site was developed by Studio:Module of Miami, FL
Claudio Luis Vera, creative director
Alisha Haydn Vera, designer
Richard Roth, developer
Felix Arteaga, developer

The team at V-Day included
Amy Squires, client lead and webmaster
Susan Celia Swan, public relations
Kate Fisher
Madeleine Gavin
and many others at VDay

The ({}) branding for the V to the Tenth event was handled by TBWA Chiat/Day of Los Angeles

Site URL: 

http://harvardscience.harvard.edu

HarvardScience is a news site covering all of the scientific achievements and discoveries for all matters related to science at the various schools, departments, institutes, and hospitals of Harvard University.

The site combines news articles on hundreds of topics with photography, rich media, and video. The site also contains a directory of science at Harvard which provides background information on the thousands of researchers and organizations behind the stories.

HarvardScience is geared to the interested scientist as much as the general public and members of the media. The site’s rich media clips and photography provide content of general interest, while the links to related content are a gold mine of information for someone conducting research in the field.

Built on a small budget to handle a limited public relations role, the site’s rapid success has turned it into an important news channel for the innovation and research happening at Harvard. The actual volume of news stories in the site has turned out to be several multiples of what was originally expected, requiring a Page 2 with a spillover of the news stories on the home page.

HarvardScience is a publication of the Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs. It was developed jointly with studio:module, and Maureen Lyons provided her programming expertise for developing the site in Drupal.

Drupal Developer
Maureen Lyons

The site was design by studio:module of Miami, FL
Claudio Luis Vera, creative director
Alisha Haydn Vera, designer
Richard Roth, developer

Site URL: 

http://admissions.media.mit.edu

As first part of an ongoing process to redesign the web presence for the MIT media Lab, studio:module developed a microsite to attract prospective students and researchers to the Lab. The site includes video, rich media and an in-depth overview to the researchers and personalities at the Lab.

The site was designed to be as forward-looking as the Media Lab’s research into technology. The look and feel of the admissions is a ambitious departure from the boxy feel typical of most web sites, fully integrating exotic shapes with HTML in the site’s themes.

About the MIT Media Lab
At the Media Lab, the future is lived, not imagined. In a world where radical technology advances are taken for granted, we design technology for people to create a better future.

The Lab comprises rigorous research and graduate degree programs, where traditional disciplines get checked at the door. Future-obsessed product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to tirelessly invent–and reinvent–how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology.

The site was developed by studio:module of Miami, FL
Claudio Luis Vera, creative director
Alisha Haydn Vera, designer
Richard Roth, developer
Felix Arteaga, developer

The team at MIT included
Ellen Hoffman
Henry Holtzman
Jon Ferguson
Jeannie Finks
and Steve Pomeroy, Drupal developer

Site URL: 

http://chuva-inc.com

This is Chuva Inc. website, built upon Drupal 5.x, it’s a good case of i18n and corporated web sites.

Site URL: 

http://www.rakemag.com

The Rake is an arts and culture magazine based in Minneapolis/St. Paul and is known for its storytelling, humor, style, and personality. Their new Drupal site has brought them great flexibility and ease-of-management, as well as improved traffic and host of other benefits.
You can read more about the website at drupal.org’s Rake Magazine case study.

Site URL: 

http://nashikit.com

www.nashikit.com is the city portal of Nashik city of India. Website conduct several services for the people of Nashik city. Website also offer opportunity for publishing News and photos of Nashik, blogs, forum, e-commerce.

Site URL: 

http://rll.wustl.edu/

One of the important goals for this site was to represent each of the different language programs in the theme. This was accomplished by having rotating photos on the front page and in the right column on sub-pages. All images are tagged (using taxonomy) with the related program. Each page in the site may be affiliated with a program, limiting the side photos to photos tagged with the same program. For example, if an event is tagged as a ‘spanish’ event, only photos tagged as ‘spanish’ will appear along the side of the event. Pages without an affiliation randomly display 3 photos from any of the categories.

The site uses CCK and views heavily and Imagecache and Thickbox for the side photos.

Site URL: 

http://www.ourfernie.com

Ourfernie is a community website for the town of fernie based in South Eastern BC. It receives approximately 900 unique visitors a day. In the 2 years since it was launched it has become the most popular site servicing the town of Fernie. It utilises the openresort booking engine to provide it with an income stream and provides a ‘fully’ functional forum which shows just what can be done with the Drupal forums module.

Site URL: 

http://www.martin-eng.com

The Iona Group, Inc. is proud to announce the relaunch of the English language version of Martin Engineering powered by Drupal 5.x. Martin Engineering is the leading global supplier of systems to make the handling of bulk materials cleaner, safer, and more productive. Since its founding in 1944, the company has grown dramatically through the development of solutions to help the solids-handling industries around the world. Martin’s website receives around 1000 unique visits every day and is used both as a resource for employees as well as a selling tool and knowledge repository for potential and current customers.

The aim of this year and a half project was to restructure Martin’s information architecture, introduce new categories for another metaphor for finding Martin’s products, breathe new life into the site’s design to make it more attractive to visitors and move away from a home-grown CMS into a more robust and solid platform.

Improvements to site wide administration were paramount; Site administrators wanted full control to change any part of the site from the administration back-end, without having to use FTP or edit any compiled (Flash) code. Moreover, Martin uses their corporate website as a document library for tech data sheets, operator manuals, and all other sorts of product-related print material – around 700 PDFs altogether. Further, these documents needed to be able, but not required, to be associated to other content on the site.

Brian McMurray (bmcmurray) was the main developer for this project with support from Steven Merrill.

Read the full case study at drupal.org.

Site URL: 

http://www.gosleepgo.com

GoSleepGo is a travel oriented community with thousands of members worldwide that has quickly grown into an information source depended on by young travelers seeking out destination information that ranges from swanky, just-opened restaurants to caves and hiking trails. Users at GoSleepGo are as at home sipping wine at a gallery opening as they are swinging from a rope into a lake. By providing easy to use tools that allow users to map out their pictures, trips, and upcoming adventures, GoSleepGo is dedicated to helping young travelers capture the offline world with online tools.

The GoSleepGo Travel Directory provides each user with a personalized profile from where they can share pictures from their explorations, meet new friends and stay in contact with old, and research from or contribute to a personalized database of interesting spots around the globe. The locations database currently contains over 750 user submitted locations, each with detailed information, travel tips, and photographs specific to the area…all written in a casual, personal tone. Unlike many traditional online guides, offering limited and impersonal information scraped from phone books and other sources, the listings at GoSleepGo are fun, in-depth, and convey the same excitement that you would get from a friend telling you about a great new place they’ve discovered. Since the location format is open and original places are encouraged, the submitted locations are some of the most unique destinations online. Often times GoSleepGo serves as the location’s only online presence.

Browsing has been simplified with the introduction of our interactive map. All content types on the site can be associated with their GPS coordinates and then plotted geographically according to user defined options. This allows users to browse for exciting new things to do in their town as well as along their road trip. In addition to the locations database, thousands of personal user photographs, blogs, and messages, have been added to the site. Membership and use of the GoSleepGo Travel Directory and Tools is free and is currently accessed by over 700 visitors a day, most of which view multiple pages and areas of the site. Since the sites inception, over half a million users have made use of the Travel Directory and there are currently over 2600 registered users who actively contribute to the site.