Greg and I have been working hard with Editure (parent company of AUSSIE) on a couple of new web sites. Last week, we launched the new Advancement Courses for Teachers (ACT) web site at www.actprogram.info.

ACT provides courses that educators can enroll in for professional development and career advancement. The old ACT site was maintained with a painstaking process of manual data entry and order processing. The new Drupal-powered site accepts online payments via the Ubercart ecommerce package and PayPal. And of course, ACT editors now have all of the data entry power of Drupal at their fingertips, simplifying their day-to-day work on the site immensely.

Graphic design for the site was provided by Editure, while Greg and I provided the site architecture and development. We also took this opportunity to overhaul our Drupal deployment process with some custom modules and better use of the community-contributed Features module.

The ACT site was built on the new infrastructure we’ve been building out for Editure, which features multiple secured web sites running in a Drupal multi-site setup, on a customized Debian Linux server. Look for posts about our smarter Drupal deployment process, and the launch of the ACT sister web site coming up soon!