Mystery Showcase Site - Higher Education / Museum

school actually has five branches
design by Studio Blue presented challenges
- two-pane design with sliding effect for simultaneous presentation of information and "inspirational content"
- looks awesome on an iPhone!
- multiple instances of Zen layout inside each other to display two nodes in a single page
- all good designers "cheat the grid" -- Zen gives you that flexibility
- two-node layout was designed to degrade gracefully in case client decides to abandon side-by-side layout
- left-hand pane is cached so that you can change the right pane without reloading the left (and without frames)
- no core was hacked in the making of this layout!
- non-web-safe fonts are images substituted in with jQuery, so they degrade to plain text
new modules to be released very soon
- Flashy: a GPL multimedia player for locally hosted video!
  - player module for .flv files with Filefield formatter
  - still somewhat basic
- SWF Embed: because SWFObject doesn't get along with jQuery
- Views Date Range
  - allows arbitrary date ranges for views
  - was incredibly hard to accomplish -- very ugly SQL!
- Views Cycle
  - makes slideshows out of lists output from views
what's next
- site will launch later this month, modules released next week
- Mildred Lake Kemper Art Museum site will be a twin site on the same Drupal install with Domain Access