Event Registration Solutions
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 by Wolken Communica.
Creekide Sleep Medicine Center setup a new domain specifically for the sleep labs. If has all the usual features of Drupal, that empower small business to easily maintain the content on their site..
Bear setup the Web Form module to help with monthly seminar registrations, and serve as a lead segmentation tool. Admins can then pull reports from each event page with the registrant info. A simple, but effective way to do online registration for non-paid events.
Coming into its 35th year, Ballard Seafood Fest is a great, old fashioned summer party. Bear Ideas ported this existing site over to Drupal so the staff at the Chamber of Commerce could easily update and maintain the site.
As with many event sites - it lay somewhat dormant til the week of the event, and then saw 10K plus visitors each day. Drupal was ready for that level of traffic spike - with a great built-in caching mechanism, event goers were able to get to the site and checkout all the great vendors and seafood!
Graphic design was done by Design Hovie Studio.
