Portfolio

This is a site published by my daughter Sarah, my wife Pia and myself. From the site motivation block:

"Many visitors to our house ask "How did you cook this?", or "How do you make those?". Some come in and first scan the place for new displays or differently placed items. And some have said they need to move in to stay on top of what we do and learn how it's done. We absolutely love to share, and we love visitors, but we draw the line at moving in.

However, you can virtually live with us by coming back to http://livingwiththewebers.com every now and then. Try out a few ideas, copy and extend recipes, print out what you want, share with friends, just be inspired, subscribe to the RSS feed, whatever rocks your boat."

The design is based on a layout and background image collage from Sarah.

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Founded in June 2009, Bleating Heart Cheese began with a mission to enter the artisan cheese industry by producing a very small quantity of unique, handcrafted, premium quality “American Original” sheep milk cheese. Like any fledgling business, Bleating Heart needed an online presence that allows owner Seana Doughty to present her delicious cheese, and also to tell her often hilariously funny stories about life as a shepherdess and cheesemaker. Seana wanted her site to have a clean look with a touch of whimsy, in her colors of red, black and white.

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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.
Most recently we have replaced Drupal's native search module with the incredible Solr search engine, which gives us much better search results, along with facets and drill down, related page suggestions and more.
Drupal is an excellent fit for the requirements, and thanks to its incredible versatility keeps growing and evolving with us.

The site is behind a firewall, so the screenshot will have to do.

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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