The Open Magazine is a new current affairs/entertainment weekly magazine available on magazine stands in India. The magazine was launched in the first quarter of 2009.
The publisher of Open Magazine, Open Media Pvt. Ltd. wanted a web presence for its magazine. It selected Srijan Technologies, a content management specialist company based out of New Delhi, India to construct the website. Srijan’s responsibility was to build the website from scratch and host it. Site design was done by Itu Chaudhuri Design.
Srijan Technologies used Drupal 6. Development took place over a period of approximately 4 months and the Open website was released to the public in July 2009.
Key features of the website
- A visually appealing website with a lot of custom theming
- An eMag feature which exactly reproduces the magazine on the web (third party Flash integration)
- Advanced Search features using the Apache Solr search engine
- Integration with ICICI bank’s payment gateway for online subscription to the magazine
- Incorporates rich multimedia content (slideshows, videos and images)
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2 Comments
Michael Cook, November 27, 2009:
I was looking thru all your work. Great work keep it up. I saw this site http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/ which was created by you and I need to know if developed a custom theme for it or used one which is downlodable from drupal.org ?
Thanks
- Mike
Sidharth, November 27, 2009:
Dear Michael,
Thanks for your comment.
The theme for indianenvironmentalportal.org is a totally customized, built-from-scratch Drupal 5 theme. Therefore it will not be available from drupal.org
As of today we would advise you not to implement a totally custom theme like we did in the old days for drupal — its best to start from zen or even better a grid based theme like 960 and blueprint (search for these on drupal.org).
Thanks,
Sidharth
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