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Mun2, a part of Telemundo cable, is a channel created for America’s Latino youth. The corresponding Drupal website serves the same demographic (American Latinos ages 13-18) and provides information on the tv lineup as well as news and related interactive content.

Project Brief -- Drupal Integrated into Microsoft Architecture

The American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC) is a member-based, non-profit organization that provides businesses with resources on process and performance improvement with a focus on knowledge sharing and best practice research. APQC's web site is where members go for documentation, the online library, surveys, and more.

APQC is launching a new site this year, and Drupal is one of several systems playing a role. Drupal will handle content and user management, eCommerce (via Ubercart), and social features.

Achieve's role in the project has been to customize Drupal and ensure that it can scale, perform, and integrate into the overall infrastructure. With launch imminent, we wanted to post about some of the Drupal integration details, and promise to share more information when the site goes live.

Last week, San Francisco-based Bella Pictures launched a new Drupal site that allows couples to select, schedule, and pay for wedding photographers online, greatly reducing one of the major hassles of wedding planning. With a network of certified photographers throughout the US, Bella is now able to sell high quality, local services via the web while also centralizing and automating administrative tasks such as billing and scheduling.

BellaPictures.com’s launch is the culmination of a year plus “engagement” with Achieve Internet. The first project was a sister site called StudioBlue.com, which offered a limited set of products in a few geographic regions. When this proof-of-concept Drupal site (the rehearsal) was complete, we moved on to the flagship BellaPictures.com.

The notable technical challenges in this project related to: Ubercart modifications allowing for multiple product attributes and coupons; integration with SalesForce, Bella’s customer relationship management (CRM) platform; and integration with Authorize.net to support payment plans.

We’ve been working for a while with Bella Pictures to develop a new wedding photography Drupal site, and it went live Tuesday 3/30. Visit at www.bellapictures.com. The site allows couples to select, schedule, and pay for wedding photographers online, greatly reducing one of the major hassles of wedding planning. And with a network of certified photographers throughout the US, Bella is able to sell high quality, local services via the web while also centralizing and automating administrative tasks such as billing and scheduling. Achieve Internet’s work on the site was focused mainly on architecture design, integration services, and custom Drupal development.

Founded in 2002, Bella Pictures is an award-winning company that is transforming the wedding photography and videography industry. Bella's technology-driven approach brings new standards of quality, service and transparency to capturing and sharing your wedding memories. Founded by a team of professionals with backgrounds in photojournalism, e-commerce and marketing, they provide superior quality wedding photography by certifying photographers throughout the United States. This unique approach removes the guesswork in picking a wedding photographer and ensures a quality product every time.Â

While Drupal 6 is still getting ready for production use, work on Drupal 7 is already under way. One of the major patches that made it in so far was the inclusion of SimpleTest into core. Unlike most patches, it doesn’t affect the end-user, but it affects developers and the development process.