This is the showcase for the Drupal projects managed and developed by Bear Ideas.  All of the sites below were launched in the past year, and were built using the Drupal Content Management System.  Some were "drupalfications" of existing sites to make it much easier for clients to manage their own web sites and never need to talk to a developer to make a simple content change again.  Others were built from the ground up to support niche online communities or news lines of business. 

Please give us a call to discuss your project if you are considering using Drupal to power your site.

Glazer's Camera

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For over 70 years, Glazers Camera has been bringing the photographic community in the Northwest together.  In 2008 Bear Ideas launched a new site for Glazer's using Drupal as the framework.  The web store uses drupal ecommerce v3.4, and connects to their point of sale system for inventory management of more than 12,000+ products.

In addition to the store we used Drupal's "community plumbing" to start an online community for Northwest photographers.  It allows their customers to build custom profiles to promote their services, link to flickr image galleries, and rate products.  Blogs, forums and more are all in the works. 

Graphic design was done by Wolken Communica.

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Project Origin Community, Monolith Games

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In March, 2008 Bear Ideas launched the Project Origin Community site for Monolith Games/Warner Bros. This is for the new game following on the heels of their hit F.E.A.R. Drupal was a natural CMS choice to support this community, as it also powers many sites for WB's music division.

Bear Ideas setup a blog network for their developers, and custom user/member profiles. We also built a new age-gate module to meet ESRB requirements, a custom flash video player, and integrated their existing vBulletin forums.

Graphic design by Wolken Communica.

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Barnard Griffin Winery

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Barnard Griffin Winery has been one of the premiere northwest wineries for the last 30 years.  Bear Ideas built a new site using Drupal as the content management system with Ecommerce v.3.4.  Drupal is a great platform for small business ecommerce sites.  The ecommerce modules provide a complete API that allow us to integrate with third-party services during checkout.  On this site there are three web service calls to the company Ship Compliant during the checkout process.  They support the complex shipping and tax rules for online alcohol sales, which vary by state, county and volume, and need to be reported by the Barnard Griffin in this highly regulated industry. The APIs made integrating Ship COmpliant into the checkout pipeline a straightforward process—something that would have been impossible with any hosted or packaged solution. 

Also during checkout we call to the UPS rating service to get the latest shipping rates for their specific account, and we process all payments through authorize.net in order to maintain PCI compliance and not store any sensitive credit card info on our servers.  The client didn't want a link to the shopping cart always hanging around, so we built a custom cart using jQuery that appears along the top header when a customer adds an item to their basket.  This keeps it unobtrusive, but still facilitates checkout for those shopping. 

The elegant design was done by Design Hovie Studios, and Barnard Griffin is a client of Wines of Washington (WOW) Promotions.

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American Institute of Architects, Seattle

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The Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) is the leading professional association for architects in the Northwest. They run architecture events and classes, and advocate for design excellence.  They had been managing a web site with many thousands of pages by hand for years. Bear Ideas spent several months with the management team to design, scope and draft business requirements for a new online system to support their organization.

The new web site is built on top of the Drupal CMS framework. It includes an installation of CiviCRM to manage all event registrations, Ecommerce 3.4 to support AIA document/contract purchases, a new Drupal/Flex search tool to locate member firms, a Job Board, full community tools support, and several subdomain sites for event submissions and a host of other tools. Bear Ideas has done all of the coding and customization, and also has excellent content management staff in-house that has been heavily involved in getting those thousands of pages migrated to the new site.  This was important to maintain a strong presence in search engines that had been built over many years.

New branding & web design (coming in May) by Wolken Communica.

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Queen Anne Painting

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Queen Anne Painting has been painting homes in the Northwest for over 30 years. Bear Ideas initially ran a 3 month pilot program to explore search advertising as a source for new job leads. We have developed a content plan for SEO strategies, and continue to drive new leads through a very successful online advertising program. Our initial pilot program led to updating the web site, putting it on Drupal as the content management system.

Thinking a CMS like Drupal is overkill for these 20 page small business sites? The fact is we can built a site more quickly in Drupal than we could as static HTML.  It then brings all the power of these tools to even the smallest businesses. Drupal is more than a CMS, or framework for development—its an excellent web marketing platform. It puts the power to message your business in your hands. You can build an online footprint as quickly as you can type, take advantage of SEO techniques, and generally control your web presence—and never need to talk to a developer to make a simple content change again.

This was an in-house design by Bear Ideas, using the brand elements provided.

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