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In my other job as High Performance Computing Manager at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute we needed an online resource to publish how-tos, document our work, keep track of issues, and much more. We live by the credo that all information is open and accessible to our stakeholders, and nothing of importance is stored locally on a desktop or laptop computer. In addition, our website must be completely web standards compliant which ensures accessibility for all current and future devices and browsers.

Pia Weber is a Registered Yoga Teacher, artist, health nut, food aficionada, gardener and much more. She needed a place to display and share her many talents and interests with clients, friends and family. Her site is both, whimsical and professional, lighthearted and profound. As such, Drupal provides a solid and versatile base to work from, and after some trial and error we came up with a look and feel and site organization which does justice to her person.

For Pia a website is only a means to an end, and technology should get out of the way as much as possible. Story creation and image upload are simple point-and-click operations. Menu integration is handled through a (mandatory) choice from the available taxonomy terms. Images are automatically reformatted behind the scenes. The result is a clean look and dead simple operation, so that Pia can concentrate on what she does best: Sharing Yoga info, her art pieces, health tips, cooking recipes and stories from her garden, making the world a nicer and better looking place one step at a time.

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A multilingual travel blog site about the beautiful city of Salvador in the state of Bahia, Brazil. This image-heavy site needs to be as accessible as possible for content contributors, so we chose to enable comments by anonymous visitors and unsupervised account registration, and use the Mollom module to prevent spam and vandalism.

Work on the backend included an upgrade to the latest Drupal version, revision of the information architecture and the multilingual setup in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese (with Italian and German to be added soon). Image upload and reformatting facilities are easy to use and completely transparent for content authors, yet perform a host of functions in the background as new content is added: Create thumbnails and reduced size image versions, automatically place images of the right size on each page for a consistent look, and dynamically rebuild image galleries and the random image display.

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Thomas Weber, a young, up-and-coming artist needed a website showcasing his art. The site must appropriately frame his often edgy art pieces, and he wanted it to be an interactive place where his personality can shine through, and where visitors can linger and discuss his art. Thomas is an artist, not a computer nerd. Hence, adding more art pieces to the site must be simple and straightforward. A custom content type makes formatting simple and consistent for each art piece. A single image upload takes care of the visuals, everything else happens automatically in the background: Image resizing, gallery updating, populating the various views and menus, etc.

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