Hallmark Magazine | Media Kit

http://www.hallmarkmagazinemediakit.com (no longer live)

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launched January 2009

Project Description:

This project was a subcontracted job for Muller Bressler Brown, an Ad Agency in Kansas City, MO. The request was to build a Drupal Content Management Site to spec, with a custom theme and some interesting little flash gadgets to not only make the user's experience visually entertaining, but userful as well. Prior to this point, Hallmark Magazine's Media Kit was a series of PDFs which are now downloadable from a resources section on the site.

Muller Bressler Brown completed all of the graphic design for this project - TAO Designs did all the coding, including HTML, CSS, PHP and other Drupal setup. This site is an example of a "de-drupalized" site, since it lacks many of the normal identifying factors of a basic drupal site. This modification of out of the box functionality helps to build a separate image for the site.

Project Features:

• Content Management System: This site is based on a platform called Drupal, which allows users and staff without web design experience to easily update most content. Many tools are at their disposal including text editors, file uploading and more.

• Special theme for front page and administrative pages: The look and feel of the site is slightly different on the front page and the administrative (backend) pages. This helps to accomodate different needs of users depending on where they are

• Flash integration: In several places on this site, flash is used to not only jazz up the look and feel, but also to accomplish specific tasks in specific ways.