After some research, I decided that Drupal would be a good fit for the Children’s Museum of Memphis, It seemed to be powerful enough to fit the site’s needs, simply enough to implement and the community of active developers was a plus. Not to mention the cost, it was easy to fit into the budget of this privately owned non-profit.

Another priority for the site was to automate a few items that were being done manually. Some of those things were processing memberships, collecting donations, and booking birthday parties. This is another problem that was easily solved with Drupal. With the plug-ins available for Ubercart, and its easy integration with Paypal, we were able to make these transaction points all available online.

Another great set of free tools I used to mange content came straight from Google. The museum is running a google calendar, and with all of the functionality built into it like detailed event pop-ups, tabs to sort by week, month or agenda, and the ability to subscribe to the museums calendar, it seemed to be a great fit. The site also uses Google maps for directions to the property.

I had a little help on the flash portion and a few questions answered on the front end development, so many thanks to Tony of askthecssguy.com and Luis of torointeractive.net, both lent a hand.