GEO is a family of educational monthly magazines similar to the National Geographic magazine. It is known for its profound reports, which are accompanied by opulent pictures. The Russian edition features GEOTraveller, GEOFocus on science and history, GEOлёнок for children and The Best of GEO. Besides the magazines, GEO's portfolio consists of merchandising products like GEO illustrated books, a GEO encyclopedia, GEO calendars and others.
About the project
- The main goal is create new version of website with content migration
- Moderate display content on pages
- Integration with social services
- Display magazine viewer
- Display articles on the map
- Integration with ushahidi
- Good admin part for magazine editors
Why Drupal was chosen
We provided another site on Drupal before.
Client was very pleased with the quality, functionality and admin UI.
Technical Specifications
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
- Rubik
- Migrate
- Views (for Drupal 7)
- Content Construction Kit (CCK)
- Panels
- Panels Everywhere
- Features
- Boost
- Content Profile
- Date
- Gallery API
- ImageCache
- Memcache API and Integration
- Google Analytics
- Page Title
- Taxonomy Menu
- Piwik Statistic Integration
- Scheduler
- Pathauto
- Transliteration
- Masquerade
- Global Redirect
- Strongarm
- Token
- Backup and Migrate
- DBTNG
- Nodequeue
Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen
- Panels - best approach to manage pages structure on the drupal site, rich ctools API and integration with contrib modules
- Panels everywhere - control global layout for all pages with the same blocks (footer, header, sidebar)
- Views - lots of listing on whole sites, standard way to manage it
- Migrate - ready solution to migrate content from another DB to Drupal
- Nodequeue - allows to control content displayed on pages, has integration with views
- Features - useful module for deployment
- Masquerade - allows to test site under different roles
