Des Moines Broomball
I am a broomball player. Broomball is a sport similar to hockey but a bit more recreational.
Once my Broomball league caught wind of me being a well-connected, tech savvy guy, they nominated me to be the Marketing Director.
As marketing director my main purpose was to help promote the league - and what better way to do that than to build a fancy website.
Not having hardly any time to devote to this project, I decided to try out a product that I'd heard a bit about, called Drupal.
The Drupal Content Management System was a pretty great little app. I literally had a community site up and running within an hour. The Drupal community had written so many modules, that I didn't have to write a single line of code to get the site off the ground.
After installing a handful of modules, a bit of layout tweaking, and modifying a tiny bit of PHP, we had a completely functional site.
I even got the help of designer Kathryn Downing to whip up that logo in a matter of about 25 minutes.
I wouldn't use Drupal for everything, but it was definitely an excellent solution for this project. The site helped the league gain players and teams for our regional tournaments.