Drupalcon Boston 2008 - Corporate site redesign

Americlaim

EclipseGc — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:34:08 +0000

Americlaim is a claims adjusting firm. Most Insurance agencies outsource a significant portion of their adjusting to 3rd party firms. Americlaim is one of these firms. Since the vast majority of their offices are 3rd party contractors as well, their office map can change regularly. When Americlaim initially approached us, all of this content was static with an associated flash map that had to be manually altered every time an office was added or subtracted.

Today Americlaim’s website is a full fledged Drupal installation including a flash map that dynamically updates based on the addition or subtraction of office nodes. Office locations are placed on the map via the zip code field in the node.

The Worx Company

EclipseGc — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:15:40 +0000

The Worx Company is an Oklahoma-based Drupal design and development firm. Having used Drupal for the last two years, The Worx Company re-developed their own website in Drupal to leverage it against the needs of their customers internally and externally. The Worx Company website functions in a number of different capacities. Previous versions have allowed customers to log in to see the design work The Worx Company has produced for them before the website is implemented. Planned future development includes integration of the internal Project Management System so that customers can log into the website to view the status of all their projects and tasks.

Additional points of interest include the fact that all the flash on the website (with the exception of the small flash header on most pages) is controlled with Drupal. Primarily this would be the front page flash and the portfolio flash. All instances of the Portfolio flash (both on the front page and on the portfolio page) are dynamically controlled by the Drupal administration system.

Martin Engineering

bmcmurray — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:47:20 +0000

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.

Samdperil & Welsh

primal_c — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:08:37 +0000

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.