ChopChop Magazine, a non-profit company, educating children and parents in healthy eating and exercise was built in the spring of 2011 on Drupal 6. The website features multiple content types like recipes, gardening how-to, exercise tips, games and interviews, with content specific landing pages. The site also features four custom landing pages for families, kids, doctors, and sponsors.

To build this website, we leveraged many contributed modules like Recipe, CCK, Multi Group, Conditional Fields, Panels, Views and Ubercart

Using contributed modules allows quicker development of full, feature complete websites. Not every contributed module does exactly what is needed, and in that case, custom development extends a module using Drupal's built-in hooks. In the case of ChopChop, modifications were done to Recipes to use a custom layout, modified labels, and additional fields (with autocomplete functionality.) Custom panel layouts were created using Ctools plug-ins. A custom theme was built using the Drupal base theme for 960.gs.

ChopChop was implemented on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Stack, on a custom Media Temple server.