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Annual awards for the best Drupal projects
Last Friday, the prestigious #SplashAwards2023 took place in Mannheim. At this annual event, often referred to as the Oscars of the Drupal community, provides agencies with the opportunity to submit their outstanding #Drupal projects.
This year, the awards featured a total of 28 projects. There was great excitement when the winners in 8 different categories were announced. Each category recognised both a winner and a deserving runner-up. In addition, every year the jury honours special projects close to their hearts with the "Honorable Mentions".
1xINTERNET continues its winning streak
Since their introduction in German-speaking countries in 2017, the Splash Awards have become a benchmark for outstanding Drupal projects.
This year, 1xINTERNET has once again impressed the jury with its innovative solutions and creative projects and continued its success with both a first and a second place.
The Splash Awards are not only a recognition of hard work and outstanding dedication, but also a chance to network with industry peers, talk about the latest trends in web development and design, and celebrate the best solutions.
And the winner is…
The 2023 Splash Awards will be presented on November 10 in Mannheim, Germany. As every year, we look forward to presenting our work and hope to continue our success story this year. We congratulate all nominees and look forward to exchanging ideas with other experts in the Drupal community.
DrupalCon is the biggest event in the European Drupal community calendar, and this year, it will take place in Lille, France from October 17 to 20. We are excited to share that we are Platinum sponsors of the event, arriving with a big team from 1xINTERNET.
We're always excited about DrupalCon, it's one of the biggest events of the year. This year is extra special for us, we're celebrating our 10 year anniversary in December, that's 10 years of Drupal projects! We are bringing a big part of our team with us, showcasing our CMS with a "TRY DRUPAL" demo, giving you the chance to test out the foundation of our digital projects. Come and meet us at our booth in the exhibition hall!
We contributed the module Search API Decoupled to allow the creation of engaging search experiences with client-side Javascript applications.
In comparison to traditional server side search, client side solutions are much faster, because fetching and rendering search results is much more efficient then requesting full pages.
We released the backend functionality of Search API Decouple in Drupal Dev Days 2023 in Vienna, the slides and video are available online.
However, Drupal needs a fully working search client so that developers and marketers can easily evaluate the functionality for their projects.
Such a client should provide great search functionality out-of-the-box and should be easy to extend and style.
We applied for funding at the Drupal Innovation Contest Pitchburgh but we did not get it.
But we decided to build and contribute the functionality anyway.
At the beginning of the project, we need to understand the requirements of the client, then we adapt the design, update the components and after that, integrate it into Drupal.
Here is an example to understand how we apply this solution and integrate it:
For example, if we have a card (web component molecule) that we want to integrate into Drupal, we need to figure out what information we want to show. Let's imagine that we want to display some short information about a blog content type.
We can have different “types” of cards, for example, with an image, link, date, and/or with all the data that you want to show. In this case, we want to use a card where we have a title, an author, and a link to read the whole content. In the blog content type, we will use these “fields” to call inside the card, so in the case of the title of the card, we will use, for example, the “label”, and call it inside the template. And so on with all the information that we want to show.
This is how it is finally displayed:
Use the same language for clear communication between teams
Clear communication in design is important. We need to talk and speak the same language, the same structure and nomenclature. Here at 1xINTERNET, we have set up a consistent Design System (1xDXP) that forms the foundation of all our projects. Developers always use the same structure and the same naming conventions for their components.
A year ago, we started to use a design template in Figma, our main collaborative design tool in 1xINTERNET. We use the same structure and naming conventions for all the components that we are going to use in the new project. We have defined FOUNDATIONS - COMPONENTS - PATTERNS - REGIONS and PAGE EXAMPLES.
The structure and the way that we use this template is the same across all of our projects and the basic elements like cards, forms, headings have been defined by the design team for our developers. So when a new project starts we can define the foundations based on the brand identity of the client, meaning that very quickly we can provide a first draft of the project aligned with the company brand.
For the design team, it is better to make more effort in the beginning in defining the functionalities and solutions that solve the bigger goals of the client than to spend time redefining simple components or patterns. This type of task can be left for the second round of development when the client has already approved the major part of the design and is happy with the progress.
We understand that we need to work quickly, that clients need to see solutions. At this stage we are designing ideas, not the pixel perfect final result. Spending time on the overall design and main features is more important than working on the basic issues.
Victorious in 2022 as well
And the winner is: 1xINTERNET! Right at the start of the event, our project for Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG was announced as the winner in the "Healthcare" category. We were delighted to receive the Splash Award from our partner company Acquia. Congratulations and many thanks to the Schwabe team and to Acquia Inc.!
For our client Schwabe, manufacturer of plant based pharmaceutical and health products, such as the well known brands Lasea, Umckaloabo and Tebonin, 1xINTERNET implemented a scalable multisite solution based on Drupal in only 3 months. The system is designed to build all new web properties of the Schwabe group and to manage and host them centrally. It gives a single face to the customer without hindering different markets by presenting themselves individually. The website is based on our 1xDXP Multisite Management System and can be rolled out successively in all 16 markets of the Schwabe Group. The solution meets the client's high security requirements and existing third-party solutions can be integrated. Storybook was used for the central design; for the central dashboard and hosting, Schwabe uses Acquia Site Factory.
We invite you to learn more about this project in our video or by reading the project description.
The Splash Awards are awarded each year to celebrate the best Drupal projects. The awards have taken place in the Netherlands since 2014. In 2017 projects in German-speaking countries were honored with Splash Awards for the first time.
The Splash Awards are intended to honor not only Drupal service providers, but also the end users who do exceptional work. 1xINTERNET are happy to have been nominated in three categories for the German - Austrian Splash Awards.
1xTalks at DrupalCon Prague 2022
Other highlights for us at 1xINTERNET were obviously our speakers.
Lara Garrido Moreno, designer, Jose Nieves, and Mónica Rodríguez Cárdenas, both front-end developers at 1x attended their first DrupalCon this year. They hosted a session and gave guests an insight into how they work in projects at 1xINTERNET. Their session was called “The collaborative flow between design and frontend in the development of an atomic design system”. This talk was very well received by guests, there were a lot of questions and there seemed to be a lot of interest on the topic. Being able to share with others how we work at 1xINTERNET was a great experience and hopefully this group will have more opportunities to do so.
For more information you can access the slides from the presentation here.
Dr. Christoph Breidert, co-founder and Managing Director of 1xINTERNET and Stefan Weber CTO & Managing Director of 1xINTERNET hosted a session about how we created a micro frontend solution using Drupal for a large European B2B/B2C food retailer. They showed the audience real examples of fully functional websites we have been working on at 1xINTERNET in the past months.
For more information you can access the slides from the presentation here.
About Drupal Sun
Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:
- Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
- Facet based on tags, author, or feed
- Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
- View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created
See the blog post at Evolving Web
