The Buzz

Many of you see that title and think, “I’ve seen too many articles about this topic, how could this one possibly be different?” I can answer that question with a word and a number: Drupal 7.

We were tasked with developing a custom drupal theme and back-end for Docspeaks.com. The original site started as a static site of about 12-15 pages and over time grew to be well over 160 pages. Built with dreamweaver templates, and relying heavily on images and tables for the layout, this site was over due for a makeover. Adding new pages was not only time consuming but was also risky business. There was so much custom code written to give the client the desired functionality, it was easy to overwrite or break something.

If you’ve had any experience with Drupal before you know it’s extremely powerful. It is a robust content management system, with thousands of contributed modules available for use. With this many modules at your fingertips it would seem that finding something as simple as a photo gallery would be a breeze. Think again...