Safari® Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the on-demand digital learning library for technology, digital media and business professionals, today announced it was awarded the 2012 Best Marketplace Website Built with Drupal by the Blue Drop Awards during its inaugural season. The award was given to Safari Books Online for its corporate website after more than a month of nominations and community voting. Lullabot was the design firm Safari Books Online used for the website overhaul.
Drupal is the largest, most active open-source technology community in the world, representing more than 630,000 contributors and developers. The Blue Drop Awards were created to promote Drupal to the greater technology community and to recognize innovative, next-generation websites and the companies that built them. With thousands of sites leveraging Drupal, the new awards program was designed to be the first democratic, voter-driven recognition program for Drupal members.
"We're very excited to receive an award for the Best Marketplace Website Built with Drupal because it was the Drupal Community who voted on and selected Safari Books Online as the winner," said Rose St. Clair, Sr. Marketing Manager for Safari Books Online, who helped lead the website's redesign. "It wasn't a one person effort. This success is due to the combined team of Lullabot and Safari Books Online designers and developers who made this project a success."
During Safari Books Online's website redesign, several areas were updated, including:
- Completely changing the structure of the site. Moving to a Drupal structure makes updating and managing content faster and easier.
- Making the website responsive so the information presented on the pages change based on the screen size of the device used to access the site.
- Reconfiguring the site as well as the content to make it easier, more natural, and intuitive to navigate and find the right information.
"It's great to receive this award, especially since Safari Books Online features more than 60 titles about Drupal. We are proud to use the technology which is featured in so many of our books and training videos to aid professionals in their understanding of how to design websites using Drupal," said Paige Mazzoni, VP Marketing, Safari Books Online.
"There were so many quality entries to the Blue Drop Awards for the Best Marketplace Website Built with Drupal category this year," said Michael Caccavano, president, Phase2 Technology. "We salute Safari Books Online for winning amongst such strong competition."
To see all the winning projects please visit www.bluedropawards.org.
About Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com and www.safaribooksonline.de) is an on-demand digital library that delivers a wide range of vetted learning resources in both book and video form from the world's leading authors in technology, digital media and business. Technology professionals, software developers, web designers, and business and creative professionals use Safari Books Online as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training.
Safari Books Online offers a range of product mixes and pricing programs for organizations, government agencies and individuals. Subscribers have access to thousands of books, training videos and prepublication manuscripts in one fully-searchable database from publishers like O'Reilly Media, Prentice Hall Professional, Addison-Wesley Professional, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, Focal Press, Cisco Press, John Wiley & Sons, Syngress, Morgan Kaufmann, IBM Redbooks, Packt, Adobe Press, FT Press, Apress, Manning, New Riders, McGraw-Hill, Jones & Bartlett, Course Technology and dozens more. For more information about Safari Books Online, please visit us at www.safaribooksonline.com and www.safaribooksonline.de.
Contacts:
Rocket Science
Rich Mullikin, 415-464-8110 ext. 216
rich@rocketscience.com
or
Safari
Books Online
Rose St. Clair, 707-827-4100
rstclair@safaribooksonline.com
