What were the key ingredients to this?

Design-wise:

• Lively
• Passionate
• Action-Encouraging

Development-wise:

• Drupal setup and back-end dev with customized modules
• Rich front-end development on the theme level
• Extensive and dynamic Flash integration

What did the company get out of this beautiful, engaging, brand spankin' new website?

• Thousands of views in the first few days following launch
• 40% of traffic coming from organic Search Engine Optimization techniques and Drupal modules
• Drupal's Ubercart (eCommerce module) connected to PayPal
• Increased content update productivity via Drupal's out of box Content Manager for blog/page/product updates and community contributed module Content Construction Kit for parent category organization
• Full fledged user management system with custom user roles access
  • Flexibility for Online Class user access (user role upgrade via Ubercart payment then video presentation via Embedded Media field module)
• Email management via Simplenews Drupal module
• Increased image features and decreased server load with ImageCache module
• WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) content updating with CKeditor (as easy as using Microsoft Word)
• Innovative dance community interaction, leading to increased loyalty

That finalizes the list of key features. Some of the unmentioned modules/module groups still holding hand in the site includes Tables API, Mail, Token, uBrowser, Workflow-ng and Drupal core modules.

Now the important part-what do you think about the website? do you need a equally magnificent site? Hit us up by click here.

Thank you,
Ivan Alfaro

To analogize the Drupal to Joomla comparison – it’s like comparing CubeCart to Miva Merchant in the eCommerce world – why mess with a bulky system when a more beautifully framed system is ready, more search engine, modification and GUI-friendly at the base? by mere file size alone, the latest production sits at a little bit over 1 megabyte. Joomla is 6 times larger, lacking in content creation, skinning abilities and traffic intake...All effecting load times.  Some may argue that Drupal's skinning/template system is difficult but once you get over the learning hump. It makes sense and will make you question the use of any other system.

To compound the discussion, all of these high profile companies or entities use Drupal
Whitehouse.gov
Other US Government websites
General Motors
The World Bank
Sony
Symbian
nVidia
Procter & Gamble
Intel
The list just keeps going on...

Others choose to ask why we no longer put our very own OptionEdit content management system on production websites.  The answer is simple: Drupal has all the flexibility we need when building custom CMS websites. When customers, however, do just need the out-of-the-box features the OptionEdit contains. We work it like a bulb in a chandelier.