Drupalcon Boston 2008 - Best Case Studies

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

New York Observer

ChrisBryant — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:28:32 +0000

The New York Observer, a prominent New York City newspaper, has relaunched its web site using Drupal. The site features a gorgeous visual design by Randi Hazan which pays careful attention to typography and whitespace. The Drupal craftsmen, Moshe Weitzman and Barry Jaspan, want to share a few of their innovative techniques with the Drupal community

Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

demet — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:40:27 +0000

The sites for Arts & Sciences (http://artsci.wustl.edu/), The College (http://college.artsci.wustl.edu/), and University College (http://ucollege.wustl.edu/) at Washingtion University in St. Louis are all part of a single multi-site Drupal implementation for the division of Arts & Sciences.

These sites provide faculty, students and staff with information about academic programs, student services and advising, school policies and procedures, as well as news, events, and a directory of school faculty. Each of the three sites has a consistent look-and-feel that also captures the unique personality of each school and its community.

The sites include profiles of featured students and articles about people and projects that are making the most of what Washington University in St. Louis has to offer.

Indianapolis Museum of Art

demet — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:10:54 +0000

One of the nation’s leading art museums in development of new media content, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) is committed to using cutting-edge museum technology as a means to engage and educate its visitors. By using Drupal the IMA was able to elevate their Web presence with an innovative, non-traditional site that allows them to better communicate directly with their audience.

The IMA site includes access to over 64,000 pieces of art in the museum’s collection, which are provided through integration with their digital asset management system. Each artwork page features catalog information on the artwork as well as two sizes of image. A third, larger image is available via an Ajax popup. Users can also read and post comments and tag artwork using the steve.museum open-source folksonomy system designed specifically for museums.

In addition to providing information about upcoming events, exhibitions, and other general information about the museum, the site also includes blogs and integration with IMA-produced YouTube video content.

Red Room

ladylolauren — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:53:06 +0000

Red Room is the online home of many of the world’s greatest writers. Through original, author-generated content, redroom.com offers a trustworthy and creative social network unlike any other. In the Red Room, you can connect with your favorite authors, access current news, and comment on features and blogs. By showcasing writers, redroom.com fosters true community between authors and readers and inspires the next generation.

While anyone is welcome to become a regular member of the site (called a reader), Red Room only gives select writers the user status of author. Users of the author class are able to create an author page on redroom.com and access a variety of content publishing tools allowing authors to easily maintain a web presence and a dialogue with their audience.

Many high profile authors including Maya Angelou, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini and Salman Rushdie have been on the site since day one. Red Room already has more than 400 authors participating and that number continues to grow each day.

HowToDoThings.com

gman — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:04:44 +0000

How To Do Things.com is a community sharing their expertise to solve people’s problems. After 6 months of specifications, migrations, Drupal module development, theme designing and beta testing, HowToDoThings.com was reborn as a Drupal powered site. We house over 4000 unique member articles found in 300+ categories. We when launched the site, we were also one of the first sites to fully implement the Google AdSense API framework with 50% revenue sharing with our authors.

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.