Drupal | CEDC.org: Nonprofit web design, print/logo work, and conference facilities

Graphic design and web development by a non-profit, for non-profits.

CEDC is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that partners with other non-profits on graphic design and web development projects.

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We also host groups for meeting space or overnight rooms in our building in Washington, DC.

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Drupal

We use a number of open source solutions for our non-profit partners. Drupal is one of the powerful open source content management systems that we use. It allows us to design the site and set it up using Drupal, giving control of the site to our partners even if they don't have a lot of technical training. We are Organizational members of the Drupal Association. See below for a sampling of some of the sites we've developed in Drupal:

Education For Justice

The Education For Justice project has an expansive membership-based website chock full of prepared resources related to Catholic Social Teaching for educators. In November of 2007 we helped them port their site over to Drupal from a proprietary CMS which was not user-friendly. Although they had great content, it was hard to organize it well in the restrictive and clunky system they were tied in to. Recently, we've given the site another major update.

SFK.org

SFK came to us for help designing and building out a site in Drupal. They had done a lot of preliminary work including site structure and wireframes, which was great. We worked through a number of revisions to find a look and feel that matched their vision for atmosphere and color -- clean and professional without being antiseptic.

NCPD.org

The National Catholic Partnership on Disability's new site recently went live. We developed it in Drupal and trained NCPD staff so that they can manage the site themselves. We had input from folks in their offices and on their board regarding accessibility preferences and ended up building two separate themes, one which included graphics and one which was a stripped down "text only" version.

CLINICLegal.org

A site redesign and development in an open source CMS to make updating easier among the team of updaters, to make content more accessible to the public and to members, and to provide a more attractive face to the public.

CEDC.org

We finally carved out the time to freshen the look and feel and rebuilt our site from the ground up.

We used Drupal for its extensibility and for the ability to cross-reference the type of design with the partner we worked with as well as any keywords we added for a design. Custom theming also allowed us to link the partner pages to a list of the other projects that we've worked on with them, and in the design pages, to automatically generate an image gallery based on the filepaths for graphics we've uploaded for the project.

COC.org

The Center of Concern (COC) recently partnered with us to refresh their website both visually (with an updated look and feel) as well as underneath the hood (with a more powerful content management system).

catholicsinalliance.org

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good had some specific needs and a request to rebuild their site using Drupal. We went through several iterations of the design and settled on one which had echoes of their old site but was refreshed. As we converted the design into a "theme" that could be used with Drupal, we also worked on some of the back-end structural items and the folks at Catholics in Alliance worked with the content and learned the new administrative interface.
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