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Great River Regional Library

Fri, 2009-05-01 13:30 — Alex Jarvis

Description

Great River Regional Library (32 branches in central Minnesota) has been using Drupal internally for over a year and just launched a complete redesign of our public website using Drupal 6, at http://www.griver.org.

Whereas the old site was static HTML, maintained by a single department using Dreamweaver, the new site allows each branch/department to post and edit their own content and have it reflected on-line immediately. It also has made for a much more consistent, maintainable and expandable on-line presence.

The site was developed entirely in-house over the span of 6 months. The theme was created by our graphic designer; the theme implementation, Drupal setup, configuration and custom programming were done by our web developer; the server was configured and optimized by our IT coordinator.

Modules used

Acquia Drupal running on Ubuntu LAMP stack.
960gs-based custom theme.
Contrib modules:

  • CCK
  • Views
  • OG
  • Addresses
  • Custom Breadcrumbs
  • Date
  • Flag
  • FCKeditor
  • Global Redirect
  • Google Analytics
  • IMCE
  • ImageCache
  • LDAP
  • Login Security
  • LoginToboggan
  • Meta tags
  • Mollom
  • NodeCarousel (special thanks to Menasha for their help)
  • Nodequeue
  • Path redirect
  • Pathauto
  • PNG Fix
  • Restricted Search
  • Read More Tweak
  • Scheduler
  • Search 404
  • Token
  • Workspace
  • Workflow
  • XML Sitemap

In Development Modules (turned off after launched):

  • Devel
  • SEO Checklist
  • Demo Site

Custom modules:

  • Forms:
    • Ask a Librarian
    • Department Contact
    • Feedback
    • Title Request
  • Auto Scheduler - Provides a more staff-friendly front end to scheduler.
  • Custom Menu - Provides navigation menu items based on role. Items include reorganization of carousel and features services queues.
  • Evanced Events - Provides a block that integrates with our Evanced upcoming events. Filters events to be contextually appropriate when looking at a branch page.
  • FAQ Categories - Creates a block with links to the FAQ categories.
  • GRRL Core - Basic helper functions used by other modules.
  • Theme Info - A CSS extractor that copies our current minified CSS to a static location so that our external properties can reference it. Allows us to theme non-Drupalized content and external sites.
  • Unified Search - Creates the unified search box in the upper right corner. Forwards requests to the service provider selected by the user.

Comments

Fri, 2009-05-01 16:22 — mark

Looks good Alex

Very nice. I'm glad to hear it took you guys six months to launch, I thought it could only take us that long =8^)

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