Unless you plan on winning the lottery, you could probably use some new ideas and strategies on how to tackle large, complex Drupal builds! In this session we'll talk about the complexities of migrating and rebuilding the public informational DC Lottery website. We’ll provide insight into the strategies we used to face the unique challenges of this site – and empower you to apply those strategies in your own work.

The first challenge we’ll share is navigating the migration of the site from an outdated, proprietary CMS to Drupal. We'll talk about the complications along the way, like the fact that we had to port over content that dated all the way back to 1984, including: 3.5 million drawing numbers all in different formats, hundreds of games, scratchers, winners and prizes. And, of course - we couldn’t forget the thousands of active daily users!

Getting the content to Drupal was just half the battle - next we had to figure out how to organize it in a way that made sense, but that could also be accessible and easy to find. We’ll also discuss how we approached the unique challenge of managing content when new information is added or edited on the site every 5 minutes, almost 24/7.

In the end we'll share how the combined strategies gave us an amazing site that has both the users from the DC community - and our client - thrilled, with plans to expand our partnership and continue to grow and optimize the site.