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With more than a decade of unbiased reviews of digital cameras under its belt, the Digital Camera Resource Page decided it was time to ugrade the underlying technology used to serve the reviews and move them to a multi-page format.  The new format helps split the in-depth reviews into more manageable chunks for the reader and provides additional ad inventory for the publisher.  Plus, the new content management system decreases the time it takes to publish a review and gallery.

The system was built on Drupal, which will make future expansion a snap. It uses multiple layers of caching to limit the load on the server and ensure users continue to get the fast page loads they’re used to.  It fits into the existing site architecture, some of which doesn’t use Drupal.  And it was deployed onto the active site with only minutes of total downtime.

Ensuring that old URLs continued to work was a challenge, but not insurmountable. Most of the system was built using contributed Drupal modules.  The majority of the custom code that was written was for the theme.  All in all, this is a great example of Drupal’s content management capabilities on a high traffic site.

(PS: If you need a digital camera, the Digital Camera Resource Page is the first place you should look!)