Drupal

A great little manufacturing site with lots of potential to grow. This site started as a crash job for a trade show and then morphed into a larger portfolio and marketings site. This site also taught me a valuable lesson about templates. They are not created equal. "Template Monster" to be specific did not have a Drupal friendly site. I would rather start with a static html  page than repeat that experience.

Though this site is not on my hosting, I built it with Drupal through Cpanel and ftp. Used to working on the backbone with shell to move files and compress and uncompress files, it slowed down construction and introduced some interesting challenges. The site development came to me through a system adminstrator/contractor. He supplied me with a psd from a graphic designer that I had worked with before. I worked out the functionality and created the Drupal template from the design.

The Laughing Boomer is a site designed to promote the speaking and writing interests of Mahara Sinclaire. Specializing in fun retirement and making sure that the financial expertise is well applied this simple site has a blog and a newsletter signup function.

Creating a larger than life impression - the CCLS site incorporates a lot of interesting work sample potential. The quotes module adds an interesting change to the site. Random quotes provide fun visual reminders on the site.

In one of those strange quirks of fate one of my first Drupal customers was Diana Ng. Better known around Surrey as the Labyrinth Lady, she needed a place to coordinate all the things that she was doing with Labyrinths. So part blog and part bruchure pages she has used the site as a platform to showcase not only her efforts in building a labyrinth in Surrey but to highlight her facilitation skills and other matters.

As team leader with a WSI partnership first I rebuilt this site 2003. In the fall of 2005 I rebuilt the site - completely. And then in 2007 I built the site again - in Drupal - not substantially changing the site from its look and feel in the custom ASP system from the second rebuild but adding an incredible range of features.

G and G sells golf accessory wholesale. Their website supports an extensive network of sales representatives and catalog sales. The site features an extensive taxonomy of products and brands allowing search as well as a drill down process.