Martin Engineering is the leading global supplier of bulk material handling equipment. The aim of this year and a half project was to restructure Martin's information architecture, introduce new categories for another metaphor for finding Martin's products, breathe new life into the site's design to make it more attractive to visitors and move away from a home-grown CMS into a more robust and solid platform. I got the project going by doing the early prototype for the Flash application on the home page, getting Martin's custom CMS data into the system, and porting three legacy PHP applications to the new Drupal codebase. Brian McMurray headed up the vast majority of the implementation beyond that.

Implementation in Drupal 

Powered by Drupal, the site is driven by a robust taxonomy for categorizing Martin's many products and presenting many ways to access these products by product family, service, solution, and industry. The site also has a vast document library for serving approximately 600 PDFs associated with products and services Martin provides.

The homepage of the site features a Flash application which is powered also by Drupal; with all of the information being fed in through AMFPHP. The Flash banner on the site, as well as the global portal, is also fueled and managed by Drupal, with images and slogans able to be easily swaped in and out through the administration area of Drupal. Brian's implementation of the Flash application on the home page made this our first commercial project using AMFPHP and Flash with Drupal.