Drupalcon Boston 2008 - magazine

Glamour Paris

martin gersbach — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:59:38 +0000

Glamourparis.com is the french version of the well-known Glamour Magazine, published by CondéNast editorial (Vogue, Wired, Architectural Digest and other magazines)

Glamour Paris found in Drupal a flexible app that helps the development on record time, even with the integration of external ecommerce solutions.

The success of Drupal was the creation of many custom blocks and 45 Content Types, some of them with more than 50 CCK fields and each one with a dedicated TPL.

Now, glamourparis.fr has 5M pages views…
This project was developed for RappCollins /DDB Paris under request from CondeNast

Popular Science

Laura — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:56:25 +0000

In February 2008, Popular Science, the fifth-oldest continually-published monthly magazine, relaunched its online presence with an enterprise-level website developed by pingVision, powered by Drupal.

Founded in 1872, Popular Science, the “What’s New, What’s Next magazine,” has witnessed, reported on, and evaluated countless scientific and technological developments, from the dawn of electricity to the latest innovations of today’s information age — advances that have shaped the way we live, work, play, travel, communicate, understand and interact with the world.

Prior to its relaunch, the Popular Science website used several disparate systems to deliver content. One of the goals for the new site was to provide a unified user interface while increasing usability and functionality. pingVision was able to use Drupal to meet Popular Science’s usability and functional requirements, while converting and importing several years’ worth of content from a Vignette 7 CMS and TypePad blogs.

pingVision also integrated several third-party services, including a fantasy stock trading system, video conversion and hosting services, and advertising. In addition to taking advantage of various contributed modules, pingVision created a number of custom modules, including the Drupal Markup Engine for content placement within nodes and Node Carousel for displaying content. The site was deployed on multiple servers, with additional caching handled by using Memcache.

(Case study coming soon. We will update with a link when that happens.)

JustCauseIt.com

Gregory Heller — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:07:13 +0000

JustCauseIt.com is the website for the upcoming print magazine, JUST CAUSE. The website provides editorial content from the magazine and expanded coverage on topics covered in the magazine including directories of organizations, calendars of related events and interactive blogging for individuals, organizations and corporate CSR. This vibrant social network allows many voices to be heard, and facilitates civic engagement on a local level – while still linking people across the country around common causes.

The initial version of the site was built in approximately 3 months with a cross functional team including a Project Manager, Lead Engineer, Theme Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Information Architect, Visual Designer and Application Specialist. The client was closely involved in the process from its inception and continues to be as new features are deployed on an iterative basis.

The site makes significant use of CCK, Views and Panels, as well as Organic Groups and a number of other contributed modules.

GreatOutdoors.com

coreyk — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:00:00 +0000

GreatOutdoors.com has since 1995 been a leader in online content focused exclusively on outdoor adventure and adventure travel. From climbing to skiing and snowboarding, cycling to paddling, hiking to trail running, photography to travel, look to GreatOutdoors.com for definitive features, news, how-to stories and trip reports for every outdoor pursuits. Profiles of your favorite climbers and skiers and cyclists is complemented by live coverage via satellite telephone of Everest expeditions, and events such as Tour de France. Video and photo galleries complete the mix, while our social networking tools enable users to connect and stay informed.

We migrated from an in-house developed CMS to Drupal in the fall of 2007.

The Rake Magazine

dgorton — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:19:54 +0000

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.

The Vineyard Voice

patrick phillips — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:33:14 +0000

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