A beautiful web design made this site an interesting challenge to work on. A couple notable features are the integrated shopping cart, youtube/video multimedia and premium subscription roles.

I was able to use the drupal video filter module to let the content manager easy link to videos from youtube, yahoo video, etc. without having to know anything ab embedded embed html in the content item, all they had to do was get the link for the teaser video (for non-subscribers) and the full length video (for subscribers) and I adjust the media page to show the full length video for subscribers and the other for anonymous users.

Subscribes sign up for subscriptions on the donate page and we are trying out ubercart's role promotion and recurring billing features using Authorize ARB as a backend. This allows an admin to set up products that grant roles such as "subscriber" role and handles the recurring billing. While there are a few features lacking that I would like to have, it's overall a pretty nice subscription system I think.

Another interesting challenge was again trying to get the most out of standard modules such as CCK and the Views module without writing a lot of custom code. I was able to implement some custom sorting with the View module and for the most part, most of my time was spent with templating and not much with custom coding which for me is always the goal.

One more note of interest, we linked the schedule page (http://www.ultimateescape.org/schedule) to google calendar and I created a small block module for pulling the "next event" via the google calendar API which isn't terrible althought isn't particularly great either but I think we pulled it off nicely. A very easy / functional calendar.

And finally this was our first production Drupal site to use secure pages which is another lovely module for easily managing https pages with SSL. The secure pages module makes it easy to specify certain pages as "SSL" and as long as you have your SSL cert installed and setup correctly it will redirect certain pages to https, in this case all our user/admin and checkout pages which we had to have to collect credit card payments.

That's it for notes, check out the site, I think you will enjoy -J