BravoTV
The BravoTV web site utilizes Drupal and is another high traffic site. Presenting many similar challenges that the Us Magazine site did, the more immediate problem was the build time was very short. One of the challenges is that it needed to be built very quickly and the entire site was up within 3 months.
The site is constantly evolving and new features are added all the time. It also utilizes Akamai and other caching and distribution techniques to handle the traffic.
This site, unlike the Us Magazine site, is completely in Drupal. For the special features that didn't fall within the scope of the Drupal CMS, custom Drupal modules were created. This includes a module that utilizes the FAST search platform, the DART ad system, and Omniture tracking system.
One of the other challenges was the migration of old data that was split over several different CMS' over the years. Aside from the CMS data, video data from a separate NBC video CMS also needs to be adapted. Not only does this video CMS contain old data, but it is still in use, so automatic imports and adaptations to use NBC standard technologies were created. All this made for a challenging project and a unique use of Drupal.
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