Just launched today: ClassicTowns.org. The site promotes eleven Philadelphia neighborhoods and suburbs as places to move to when you grow up, or to grow up in. Our task was to turn the designs into a easy to use and sophisticated Drupal site. Site visitors are able to easily find detailed and useful information on the towns, as well as on the classic towns program. Site administrators have a powerful set of tools behind the scenes that allow them to easily add more towns in the future and precisely edit each page while keeping the integrity of the design.

The standout feature of the site is a map of all the towns in the program. Feeding dynamic information from Drupal into Flash we were able to build a simple to use system for showing each town’s information in geographic space. The real power is reserved for the site’s administers. Once they’re logged in they just have to drag and drop a town’s icon to precisely adjust it’s placement on the map.

Classic Towns of Greater Philadelphia was designed by Paragraph Inc. for the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.

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