CoolNewMedia recently participated in a re-design of the client' real estate based website for Bionic Spider Online Solutions where we worked on a team to port the old site custom coded website into a Drupal powered solution.

The clients previous website was dynamic however it did not have any content management in place so all text changes had to be installed by a web developer.  One goal in this redesign was to install a content management solution, empowering the clients marketing team to make updates while also freeing the developers from content maintenance requirements.  Drupal was chosen as it is a solid, mature, well supported content management system, and secondly, Drupal can be easily extended to manage home sale listings, retail listings, and other content types.

For this project, our primary role was to:

• Source and recommend a CMS solution to power the new site.  Drupal was the best choice here.
• Develop a Drupal theme from a graphic comp provided by a third party. We actually built the new theme as a sub-theme that extends off the drupal ZEN theme framework.
• Setup the base Drupal site including navigation menus, blocks, etc.
• Recommend and install modules to help power the solution
• Setup the content editor role so that the editors could update content
• Work with other designers and developers to create a solution that met aggressive timeline requirements.

The current online version of clients; was developed in under three weeks. Our involvement in the project began Aug 28 and the new site launched Sept 14th.

Unfortunately, we can't mention the client as they prefer to remain anonymous.