Case study: Wedful.com - Building a hosted web service with Drupal

Case study: Wedful.com - Building a hosted web service with Drupal

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Wedful.com is a hosted web service for couples getting married. It allows users to easily create and manage their own wedding website . The service is built with Drupal using our own custom distribution. The goal of the project was to give couples a better, more up to date product than currently existed in the marketplace and one that required minimal maintenance on our part.

This talk will cover the following:

• Introduction to Wedful.com: what it does and how it works
• Technical background and overview of the tools used
• Why Drupal? Benefits over a web application framework such as Rails or Django.
• Overview of costs to build the project.
• How we work with designers to get a variety of professional themes
• Expertise required to build a hosted service with Drupal
• Future benefits to having built with Drupal and minimal custom code.

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