A few weeks back I was asked to rebuild The Fremantle Corporation’s website in a way that would make it easy for staff members to make changes to the online product catalog. After comparing the usual suspects (WordPress, Joomla! Drupal) and factoring in my own experience on previous projects, we decided that Drupal’s unique mix of growing popularity and powerful administration tools made for a winning combination.
I got to work migrating the page content and coding an xhtml/css Drupal theme to present it all.
Andre Skinner provided me with some photoshop mockups that I used as a guide to build the xhtml/css Drupal theme, exposing some of the features provided by the framework below. The final product makes liberal use of some popular Drupal modules such as ImageAPI, Taxonomy Image, Pathauto and, of course, CCK.
The staff at Fremantle have been diligently updating their page content, changing images around and generally updating their catalog. The site I see on fremantlecorp.com today is very different from the one we delivered a week ago, which in this case is a good thing.
