Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum
Contributor · Full-Stack
Contributed as Full-Stack Developer on the Interactive Knowledge team for Patriots Point Naval Museum
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A robust Drupal 11 website built for Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, home of the USS Yorktown, USS Laffey, and Cold War Memorial. The site presents visitor information, historic vessels, aircraft collections, exhibitions, events, and educational resources. It combines custom content architecture with museum specific integrations to deliver a flexible and visually engaging digital experience.
Patriots Point is a major naval history museum located on Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. The museum is built around several iconic vessels and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. The website needed to support high volumes of traffic, present detailed museum content, and offer strong tools for planning visits, exploring exhibits, and purchasing tickets.
This project was developed by the Interactive Knowledge team as a custom Drupal build tailored to the museum’s needs. It supports structured content types for vessels, aircraft, exhibitions, online experiences, events, and collections. The site integrates with external platforms for ticketing, collections management, newsletters, and 3D interactives. The theme showcases the naval identity of the museum with a bold design and responsive media.
I contributed across the front end and back end of the Patriots Point project, including:
My work improved visual consistency, accessibility, and the reliability of several core user flows.
Complex content relationships
Content types like vessels, aircraft, exhibitions, and events have many cross links. I contributed to template and view updates that ensured relationships displayed correctly and consistently.
Media heavy design requirements
The site uses many large images and video assets. I implemented SCSS, lazy loading, and template adjustments that improved responsiveness and performance.
Interactive elements with accessibility requirements
Carousels, tabs, and video players required accessible markup. I helped refine attributes and interactions to meet accessibility expectations.
High traffic performance needs
The site serves a large museum audience. I supported adjustments that worked with Pantheon caching and Solr search for better performance.
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