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We have just launched the new Aquaculture Society of Canada web site in Drupal.

The site allows users to sign up for membership and pay the membership fees via PayPal. Members are also reminded of their annual membership renewals. They are able to renew their membership via the site.

Conference events can also be created on the site with the ability for members to signup through the site.

The E-Commerce areas of the web site is power by Ubercart.

We have just launched the new Bushmeat.org web site for the DC based non-profit Conservation International. As per our last blog post, the site involves migration from the Plumtree CMS to Drupal.

We conducted an information architecture analysis on the site and also made some major modifications to the site design. Our information architecture analysis, identified areas where users can easily be lost while navigating the site. Based on the findings, the navigation structure has been majorly updated.

The biggest challenges that we faced while working the project include:

1) A majority of the documents on the site reside on the Plumtree system in a file folder structure. These documents do not reside on a database and therefore cannot be easily exported. A lot of these files need to be manually migrated and added to the Drupal CMS.

I recently came across a 2008 blog post by George Dearing in Information Week titled, "Is Drupal Finally Enterprise Ready?" Dearing explored how the Drupal community has been growing over the past few years and how Acquia has been supporting a lot of commercial initiatives behind Drupal.

I have read a lot of posts about whether Drupal is enterprise ready in the past. I believe Drupal has been enterprise ready for at least 2 years. Over the past 2 years, we have seen multiple large-scale web sites implemented in Drupal. Some of these sites include:

Universal Music (www.universalmusic.com)
Fast Company (www.fastcompany.com)
Popular Science (www.popsci.com)

These and many others are enterprise-level web sites, and the organizations behind these sites are large-scale enterprises. The Universal Music Group and its parent company are two of the biggest companies in the world.