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Brand new, wonderful site on Tomás Luis de Victoria, the most played Spanish musician of all times, built on Drupal, powered by our Scholarly theme

Homepage of the website dedicated to the life and work of Tomás Luis de Victoria, built on Drupal, powered by Scholarly.

The most played Spanish musician of all times, deserves the best  software available to showcase his life and work

Coming from Ávila (Spain), Tomás Luis de Victoria Research Centre announce today their brand new site, on the life and work of the great, homonymous 16th-century musician.

Read more on the life and work of Tomás Luis de Victoria.

Óscar Arroyo Terrón, project coordinator, explained their decision on using Drupal to power their site:

The most played Spanish musician of all times “demands” the best software in order to be better known worldwide. This was our thinking and the main reason for selecting Drupal, the most powerful, open-source platform today. Although some other CMS’ offer a lot of possibilities indeed, our site needed the stability, multilingual support, and complete, thorough configuration options that Drupal provides out-of-the-box. Open-source, like music by the great composers, is definitely a huge heritage to deal with.

Some of Tomás Luis de Victoria's most famous quotes are featured at the sidebar throughout the www.tomasluisvictoria.es/en.

For the needs of this project, Victoria chose to customise one of the built-in color schemes of Scholarly further, to better match their needs. A few months later, the result is a wonderful blend of classical soberness, with modern user-friendliness. 

Óscar explained:

In terms of aesthetics, the goal in every one of Victoria’s pieces has always been to match the looks of our site. So we selected More Than Themes to work with: we knew their works from one of our previous sites, and we knew they are among the best web designers you can find all over the Internet.

Powered by the responsive Scholarly theme, www.tomasluisvictoria.es works wonderfully on mobile devices. 

Óscar emphasised the importance of being able to customise the theme used, tailoring everything to their needs:

In addition to that, our quite extensive technical needs were completely fulfilled by their team, always giving us the best support for all our needs. And all of that, for a lower price than others!

More on Scholarly

Scholarly is our take on how a good Drupal theme for education-oriented websites should be. In today’s economy there’s an ever-growing need for building powerful, flexible and scalable sites for university departments, traditional and online schools and seminars, as well as, in general, businesses centered around education and training. Scholarly was designed to provide a well-thought use-case scenario that is specific enough to provide a great solution out-of-the-box for such sites.

Read our blog post on Scholarly » | Find out more about the theme »

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Drupal 4U, a great Drupal resource website for webmasters and developers, is now powered by our Best Brand theme

Homepage of Drupal 4U, built on Drupal 7, powered by Best Brand.

Drupal 4U has been founded by a group of Drupal enthusiasts with the aim to share their expertise with the community. Drupal 4U incorporates howtos, tutorials, tips & tricks, recommended themes and books. Following the philosophy of Drupal, the website is based on the principles of open source and collaboration. Thus, Drupal 4U combines the knowledge and experience of its contributors with the best relevant, freely available resources on the Internet. 

The "Tips & Tricks" section of Drupal 4U, with a wealth of information for Drupal webmasters and developers.

At the beginning of 2014 the Drupal 4U team decided to go for a re-design of the portal. Bruno Steiger, lead of the project shared details on their thinking at the time and their way of moving forward: 

The aim of the re-design was to create a website with a modern responsive design, which is easy to use for both the end-users and contributors. Considering the increased availability of wide monitors, the new design should furthermore be optimized for a width up to 1200px. Slightly changing the concept, the re-designed website should center around a homepage where the recent contributions should be presented in an appealing way. Furthermore the sections tutorials, tips & tricks, howtos and themes should be searchable according to categories and sortable. 

Using the greatness of Drupal, Drupal 4U sorts tutorials, tips and tricks in easily searchable categories.

On planning the project implementation, Bruno added:  

For many of the site contributors, More than Themes is the first point to turn to when planning any theme-based projects, as MtT is known as a creator of well-designed themes, which are technically close to perfection. Particularly important for the realisation of projects, the themes of MtT are easy to customize/administer and are built with online marketing in mind (SEO, social media marketing, content marketing). Thus it was a logical consequence to have a look at their portfolio first.

Powered by the responsive Best Brand theme, Drupal 4U looks and functions great on mobile devices. 

On choosing among the themes provided by MtT, Bruno shared:

The Best Brand theme was quickly identified as a suitable option. Although the theme is primarily designed as a corporate theme for the marketing of products and services, it would be easy to customise to suit the needs of the portal.

Go ahead, enjoy Drupal 4U and for any enquiries contact their team via: http://www.drupal4u.org/contact

About the theme:

Best Brand is a multi-purpose Drupal theme, built just the way it should be. Responsive, flexible and carefully crafted to the last detail. Bundled with Drupal Commerce. Designed with a focus on presenting your brand and listing your products & services. Bundled with multiple font-stacks and colour schemes, equipped with all sorts of automations including Content types, Views blocks and pages as well as social media goodness, Best Brand is here to help have your website up and running in mere minutes, only to initiate your pathway to success.

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More than Themes now at Drupal showcase

More than Themes is now included in Drupal showcase, the awesome collection of Drupal websites built by Acquia and powered by Drupal Gardens. Have you been building Drupal websites and haven't submitted them to Drupal showcase yet? Go do so! :)