Holiday World: Drupal site with 100,000 views daily

The historic Holiday World theme park in Santa Claus, Indiana, wanted to move from it’s static HTML website to a database-driven site that could incorporate its social networking strategies.

Working with designer Rick Lostutter, we turned to the Drupal content management system as it could handle custom content types and provide future expansion into e-commerce for the theme park.

We incorporated Holiday World’s Twitter, YouTube and Flickr accounts as well as a pair of in-house blogs to provide vivid visuals and interactivity for the park.

While Rick focused on visual design and content management, I worked in the background to create the custom content types and templates using xhtml, css, php and javascript to bring the site to life. I also optimized the Drupal installation and the site’s Linux server to handle the site’s 100,000 daily page views.

site: www.holidayworld.com