What Vanilla Drupal Gives You (Out of the Box)
- Basic content creation (simple pages and articles)
- User management and permissions
- Simple menus and navigation
- Basic search functionality
- File uploads
- Comment system
- Basic themes and layouts
What ZenSource Foundation Adds
Content Creation & Design
Sophisticated content building system with drag-and-drop blocks, templates, live editing, auto-save, smart linking, and more.
- Build pages like a designer—no coding required
- Create flexible page layouts with templates
- Edit content directly on your website
- Prevent editing conflicts
- Clone and template content for fast duplication
- Auto-save your work
- Smart content linking and internal search
- Real-world impact: Create branded program pages in minutes
Advanced Media & Asset Management
Complete digital asset management—bulk upload photos, crop images, embed videos, detect duplicates, and organize visual assets.
- Bulk upload entire event photo galleries
- Smart image cropping and responsive layouts
- Interactive image hotspots
- Enhanced video embedding
- Duplicate image detection
- Advanced responsive image handling
- Real-world impact: Easily showcase programs and events, manage large media libraries
Powerful Search & Discovery
Enterprise-level search with faceted filters, smart suggestions, exportable results, infinite scroll, and complex filtering.
- Faceted search by category, date, etc.
- Auto-complete and suggested searching
- Advanced filtering by multiple attributes
- Export lists for reporting
- Seamless infinite scroll
- Real-world impact: Staff and students quickly find resources, admin export data for outreach
Professional Website Features
Major commercial website features like advanced forms, SEO, URL management, professional email, event calendars, social media, and analytics.
- Advanced forms and applications
- Automatic SEO and social integration
- URL management and redirects
- Reliable email delivery
- Event calendar integration
- Social media sharing/posting
- Google Analytics for tracking
- Impact: Boost visibility, streamline digital engagement, analyze effectiveness
Professional Design Components
Complete design system with hero banners, interactive cards, carousels, profiles, testimonials, statistics, logo walls, tabs, accordions.
- Stunning hero sections and banners
- Interactive flip cards and video cards
- Sliding media carousels and galleries
- Professional staff profiles and directories
- Statistics, testimonials, and sponsor displays
- Tabs, accordions, and interactive layouts
- Real-world impact: Brand-aligned web experiences without coding
Enhanced User Experience
Modern, mobile-first design, fast loading, accessible navigation, mega menus, breadcrumbs, smooth animations.
- Mobile-first, responsive design
- Fast loading and optimized performance
- Accessibility compliance (ADA, WCAG)
- Intuitive mega menus and site search
- Smooth animations and interactive elements
- Impact: Easier, more engaging experience for visitors
Streamlined Content Management
User-friendly admin tools for bulk editing, content templates, admin shortcuts, credential management.
- Modern, intuitive admin toolbar and interface
- Bulk operations for fast updates
- Pre-built content templates
- Content editing safety (locking, autosave)
- Keyboard shortcuts for admins
- Secure API key storage
- Impact: Faster onboarding and consistent content publishing
ZenSource Foundation Theme: Professional Design System
Pre-built templates and components accelerate creative development—no need for custom code.
- Home Page with hero sections and widget areas
- Article/Post Pages for news and announcements
- Case Studies and program showcases
- Profile Pages for staff/faculty bios
- Tier Pages for service/program categories
Interactive Components & Features
- Animated flip cards and image hotspots
- Media carousels and galleries
- Statistics displays and testimonial layouts
- Tabs and accordions for organized content
- Video cards and interactive directories
Return on Investment
- Faster launches — quicker to market, freeing up resources for unique UX
- Lower maintenance cost — built-in tools reduce dev needs
- Better engagement — tested UX boosts conversions
- Scalable growth — add sites, programs, or content easily
- Future-proof — regular updates and new features
ZenSource Foundation Theme - Widget System Breakdown
Custom theme includes 20+ widget types and 100+ style variations.
- Hero Widgets: Short, split, tall, text-focused heros
- Card Widgets: Base, flip cards, icon cards, video cards, card groups
- Link List Widgets: Standard, icon, image lists
- Spotlight Widgets: Full/half-width spotlights, carousel variants
- Media Widgets: Carousels, groups, galleries, masonry walls
- Interactive Widgets: Accordions, tabs, hotspots
- Content Display: Multi-column, quote, stats widgets
- Branding: Logo wall and logo carousel
- Utility: Alerts, callout bars
Theme Technical Features
- Slick Carousel, Fancybox modals/lightbox, Masonry layout, Images Loaded detection, Vimeo API, VideoJS
- SCSS-based component CSS, responsive grid, dark mode
- Gulp build system, NPM packages, optimized assets
Summary
The ZenSource Foundation website is a comprehensive digital experience platform with:
- Advanced Content Authoring (15+ modules)
- Sophisticated Widget System (25+ widgets, 100+ variations)
- Professional Media Management (10+ modules)
- Powerful Search & Discovery (8+ modules)
- SEO & Marketing Tools (12+ modules)
- Modern Admin Experience
- Comprehensive Form System
- Performance Optimization
Custom ZenSource Ecosystem: 50+ modules, 300+ theme files, modern build pipeline, mobile-first, accessible, interactive components.
Designed for: Education, healthcare, and mission-driven websites needing flexible, scalable features and modern design, built on Drupal core.