Civitas Institute is a research and public policy organization in Raleigh, North Carolina. We recently worked with Civitas to relaunch their site in Drupal 5.2. They were previously using a cumbersome proprietary content management system. The new site includes event, donation, and newsletter systems powered by CiviCRM.
URL: http://www.nccivitas.org
Theme Creation
We built the theme from scratch using the excellent Pro Drupal Development theming chapter as a starting point. The administration section uses the Garland theme. The items on the right side of the homepage are blocks. We used Views to generate all of the archive pages and all of the mini-articles on the homepage.
We ended up adding our own menu instead of using the Drupal one. We are using taxonomy terms to help the menu figure out the current page. A body id is generated from a taxonomy term name. The css class listed on each page is a child term of the body id term. The search box was themed with a search-theme-form template file. The little search magnifying glass comes from the button css.
Helpful Modules
Here are some of the modules we used to build the site.
Administration Menu
CCK
Views
CiviCRM
Actions
FCKeditor
IMCE
Pathauto
Calendar
Workflow
LoginTobbogan