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YogicBuddhism.org

The YogicBuddhism.org project started in June of 2008 to create a new website for Mahasiddha Buddhism (Mahasiddhas.org). 

They wanted to create a new website that would be a portal for people in their religious community to get current information and access to member only content.

The website was the effort of a team of about 8 people.  I managed the project and implemented the website in Drupal 5.x.

Some goals were:

• Organize and present alot of information about the school and classes offered.
• Simple to edit and maintain - no more Dreamweaver!
• Consistant and clean visitor experience across pages
• Provide a unified calendar, store, and newsletter experience
• Integrate specific visual design goals
• Free audio recordings

Some features include:

• Several levels of member-only content - both audio and HTML.
• Member only audio uploading and downloading - no FTPing files!
• A "no tables" CSS theme with a "asemail" mode for the newsletter to be sent by email.  (Many HTML email readers don't support CSS)

The Method:

This was definately a team project.

• Website content writers editited many of the pages
• Our visual designer worked with myself and another web designer to implement the theme.
• The graphics on each of the different pages are a beautiful addition to the site accomplished with some PHP block code and the CCK "ImageField" module.
• The Newsletter Team was trained on how to use Drupal for publishing and how to use the newsletter system (done with CCK)