http://www.destinationbride.com
The owner's original dream for this website was to build a comprehensive resource directory for all major wedding destinations in the world; the completion of which was to coincide with the release of her new book on the topic.
She found herself frustrated by the time and complexity involved in expanding the current "static" website that had been developed for her. Editing the pages with Macromedia Contribute was not too difficult, but waiting (weeks) for "the other" web design company to add a page, then to sort through the inconsistent or incorrect menu links was really gumming up the works. Just to add a database-driven menu system - without any content management - was going to cost thousands.
In addition, much of the website was not spidered by the major search engines, and most of the pages that were found had no descriptions in the results. Many didn't even have titles! The website was not performing well in the search engines as a result.
I was able to provide a complete, content managed, SEO friendly website solution, powered by our friend Drupal, at a fraction of the cost of my competition. Here's how I did it:
Flexinode created the regional pages with data entry for area overview, climate, currency and other information. Eventually, flexinode will allow couples to maintain Personal Wedding Pages.
Menu on the Fly assisted in building the enormous resource navigation structure.
DDEV is the official local development tool of Drupal. And like Drupal, DDEV depends on the support of the open source community.
