Web development for the Dutch Drupal Association

The process

The Dutch Drupal Association needed to refine their website to give it a more modern and appealing look.

As a rule, they communicated their needs to their partners (DDA members), but because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they decided to support the Drupal community in our country by outsourcing their project to a Ukrainian Drupal development services vendor, thus seeing us through this difficult time. The Dutch Drupal Association provided us with the designs and overall idea behind their website, with their main focus being visual enhancements.

We agreed on project-based cooperation and provided an estimate to the client according to their requirements. Our PM ensured that the Dutch Drupal Association received time reports every month, and the LS team stuck to the Agile approach and was engaged in sprint-planning meetings as needed.

LS Drupal developers created the whole website from scratch using Drupal 9 and the Layout Builder component-based approach. In this way, we ensured the website's flexibility and ability to add the components in any order desired. The biggest part of the project was devoted to animation development, including splash screen, sliders, frames, and content animations. We didn't want to build them using images or SVG vectors and instead used various CSS and JS solutions. Thus, we established better animation performance, both in speed and flexibility.

Even though our developers created an English version of the website, they still took into account the client would add the content in Dutch. Consequently, the LS team took care to ensure the components would match this language specifics in the future.

Additionally, LS developers carried out the event list feature. The task was to generate an event component that would automatically form the list, sort it in the right order, and delete those events that had already passed.

We also worked on adapting the website to the mobile version to make sure everything worked as planned and subsequently tested a freshly developed site.