Drupal sites
ASI using Drupal
Drupal goes to space! ASI is in Italy what NASA is in the USA. In other words, ASI is the Italian national agency for space activities, and works primarily with ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Among their many projects include recent work on construction of the International Space Station. Turns out their site uses Drupal. Check it out at http://www.asi.it.
MIT using Drupal
It would be interesting to get a list of all the Drupal sites at MIT -- I know they have quite a few. Recently, MIT's well-known Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) launched its new and improved website using Drupal at http://www.csail.mit.edu. DIG, a group at CSAIL that includes father of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has been using Drupal for many years now. Great!
Pearl Jam using Drupal
Oh my. Pearl Jam, one of my favorite bands, relaunched its official band website using Drupal. Check it out at http://www.pearljam.com. Rock!
P-Magazine using Drupal
Belgian men's magazine P-Magazine (LSFW) recently switched to Drupal. I don't know who built the site, but I'm told it is hosted on a multi-server cluster at Combell. More proof that Drupal is growing strong in Belgium. Cool!
Boekenbeurs using Drupal
Boekenbeurs.be, the site of Belgian's famous book fair, received 3 awards at the Belgian CMS Awards last week. The site, built with Drupal, was designed and implemented by Calibrate. The site received an award for web 2.0 functionality, SEO implementation and best public overall award. Stunning design!
Sanyo using Drupal
Sanyo, the Fortune 500 electronics company, used Drupal to build a nice product catalog website at http://www.sanyo.com.au. The site went live earlier this week and features 250 products in 30 categories with over one GB of PDF files. More functionality is being added iteratively.
It sounds like they would be an ideal candidate for Acquia's upcoming hosted search service which will be able to search PDF documents as well as regular Drupal content. According to Luke Schreur from Tequila Digital Australia, the company responsible for the implementation, CCK was the most important module for this project. Luke said that they are already deploying Drupal for other clients and that more programmers at Tequila Digital are getting into Drupal. Great!
Spotlight Verlag using Drupal
Spotlight Verlag, a well-known German publisher, recently launched another Drupal site: http://www.business-spotlight.de.
Udo Gerhards, Project Manager Online at Spotlight Verlag, explained to me that the site is targeted at language learners and that they built a number of complex interactive language tests; see here for a JavaScript based drag and drop test, and see here for a regular multi-page HTML form test. Development of the site was done mainly by their in-house development team, with some help from Auvica.
When asked, Udo told me that CCK, Views and Panels were the main reasons for using Drupal. Their biggest pain point was in staging their development environment to reliably push big changes to their production environment.
They use a multi-site install with a single master user database (every login in the different Drupal instances is checked against one central user database, so users share the same login data for different websites in their network). This master database is also connected to their magazine subscriber database. The multi-site setup makes it easier for them to roll out and maintain the additional Drupal sites that they have in the pipeline.
