Sector(s)

Project Team

  • Umar Zaffer (Project Manager)
  • Shashank Merothiya(Business Analyst)
  • Gaurav Mishra (Head Marketing)
  • Shakti Kumar (Drupal Developer)

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Organizations Involved

Our client is one of the leading women's magazine. It curates the best of global and Indian fashion, beauty, people, parties and culture. Our team implemented a Drupal version upgrade, a new theme, new features and improved the performance of their site in India. The revamped site, then on Drupal, went live in September 2012.

Key Highlights:

  • Implemented Pressflow upgrade
  • Optimized site performance: significantly reduced database size, removed unused modules, added modules to improve site performance
  • Onboarded site to Acquia Cloud

About the project

The Solution

  • Performance optimization: We worked on various aspects to improve the site’s performance. The database size which was earlier 2GB was brought down to 200 MB. All the unused modules were disabled. We also added/configured modules for improving the site’s performance. One such module was the fast_404 module.
  • Implemented new sections/features: We implemented a new section called Collections, a listing of fashion trends and fashion shows. The Collections page showcases fashion shows at different seasons of the year held by well known designers.
  • Enhancing security: We unhacked the core/contrib modules in order to upgrade those modules that were security updated. Other security fixes were also implemented.
  • Onboarding to Acquia Cloud: We also worked with Acquia to onboard Vogue.in as well as some other Conde Nast sites (GQIndia.com, Architecturaldigest.in, CNTraveller.in) on to the Acquia Cloud.

Why Drupal was chosen

The magazine's website was already developed on Drupal 6.16. However, the site had performance issues that impacted a lot of functions related to the website. We were chosen to address these issues and make the site perform better. One of the first activities taken up was to convert the non-Drupal compliant code to comply with Drupal best practices. We implemented the upgrade to Pressflow on Drupal 6.28.

Technical Specifications

Drupal version:

Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen

The Business Benefits

  • Value delivered: Thanks to this approach, the team was able to complete high value tasks early, and was able to deliver more stories than they had committed to in each sprint.
  • High degree of flexibility: The team was flexible enough to accommodate new requests whenever they came in.
  • Improved browsing experience: The website doesn’t slow down or show up bank pages anymore. This has led to a better browsing experience.