Well, we’re only a week away from our first soft launch and things are really starting to pick up. One thing I’ve been working on for quite a while now is connecting our Drupal database with Adobe Flash. To manage the enormous amount of content we have, our team is using Drupal , which is a content management system (CMS). CMS’s make it incredibly easy to update, rearrange, and reorganize your website, and they store all your content in a database which is very search-engine friendly.
If you’re not familiar with Flash, let me give you an extremely abbreviated summary. Flash is a program that is great for creating interactive, animated Web sites, but it has been criticized for not being search-engine friendly. Our plan for this year’s site is to use a CMS database and integrate the strengths of Flash, giving us the best of both worlds.
Without getting overly technical, that’s the gist of what I’ve been working on, and it’s been a very exciting experience. When you get a great group of people together like we have, everyone comes up with such great ideas and it makes everyone more motivated to put in the extra time to make this site truly great. To think that the site goes through every phase of production in ten weeks is crazy, just think of what it would be like if we had all year!
Written by Dan Piotrowski – Technical Director