Darrow Wilderness Trip Camp, a program that sends campers into some of the most remote wilderness areas of northern Maine and the far north of Canada, has relaunched their site in Drupal 5.
This site was done as a collaboration between the design talent of WD Interactive, and the Drupal customization experience of the Openflows Community Technology Lab.
Drupal was chosen as the platform for this project for two key reasons, flexibility from the design and code perspective and ease of content administration by novice users. The staff of Darrow needed a high quality CMS, and the flexibility of the theme system allowed us to exactly mimic the distinctive design of Darrow's static HTML site within a Drupal theme.
With the launching of a Drupal based site, the staff of Darrow can make changes to content without having to wait for the designer to code new pages for them and the designer can focus on creating the images that give the site its look and feel and continue to modify that look without the distraction of being responsible for all additions and modifications to the content.
The Darrow Camp site makes use of a several contributed modules. CCK and Views are used to create manage the "Quicklinks" and "Overheard" quotes. Quicklinks also makes use of Automatic Nodetitles (which in turn uses Token) to create a title based on link's title. Webform is being used to create the questionaire forms, like the "request a brochure" page. The Darrow site is also very reliant on images, so we make use of Image and Img Assist modules for image handling within nodes. To create custom node title images on the fly, we make use of the Signwriter module.
The theme is based on the design of the static HTML site (originally by WD Interactive), using phptemplate. The theme inherited a table structure in which the front page was different than the sub pages, so page.tpl.php makes heavy use of the is_front variable to properly set the table structure. Aside from the difference of the front page, there are not too many elements of the theme that are outside of any standard phptemplate theme.
Any questions are very welcome!
