Drupalcon Boston 2008 - publishing

Zuda Comics

Oliver.Siodmak — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:36:27 +0000

Zuda Comics’ mission is to showcase comic artists, build intellectual property, and establish a “Zuda” community of registered readers.
Submissions are open to both amateurs and professionals alike and afford readers an opportunity to read original comics, comment, blog and rate the material.
The site embraces leading Web 2.0 technologies. Comic fans experience comics specially made for the Web in 4:3 aspect ratio screens, so they can easily read a Web comic installment without opening an additional window in their browser or excessive scrolling.
Through the use of Drupal, the new site enables collaboration and innovation as well as flexibility to allow DC Comics to continue to enhance the site with industry leading functionality over time.

“We’ve partnered with [IBM] to help build the site, and they’ve just been tremendous. We looked at a number of different firms when we were looking to build this site, because we knew it was going to be an ambitious site … IBM, who people might think of as being the stodgiest and most conservative, came back with the freshest, most interactive and inventive ideas,” says Richard Bruning (SVP-Creative Services Director).

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.)

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.

HarvardScience news site

modulist — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:32:33 +0000

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