Completed Drupal site or project URL: http://thescientistexpo.com

In mid-2016, LabX Media Group (a successful science media company), decided to launch a new conference series. Woolwich Web Works had worked with LabX on several other projects, so they turned to us for website development. They needed a website up and running quickly, so they could start marketing the conference a year before the Conference would be held.

We used an iterative approach to development, adding features and making improvements progressively. The conference marketing cycle required different features to be available at different times. Drupal 8’s configuration management combined with a composer-based development workflow made it easy for us to adapt to the client’s changing needs.

This project is a great example of what Drupal 8 can do (almost) out of the box. The main functionality for the site was created with core Drupal 8 modules: entities, references, views, and user roles and permissions. The biggest contrib module addition was the Paragraphs module, for creating structured content layouts. Many other helper modules were used to improve content display and user experience.