Structured Content & Flexible Layouts: A Georgia.gov case study

DrupalCon Portland 2022 • With Greg Dunlap & Rachel Hart

This case study walks through the content modeling and editorial tooling decisions behind Georgia.gov's redesigned landing page system — a platform serving 80+ state agencies with wildly different needs and varying levels of technical sophistication.

The challenge: give agencies enough flexibility to customize their pages while keeping the underlying content structured enough to stay consistent, searchable, and maintainable at scale.

The talk covers how research informed editorial tooling decisions, what Drupal tools are available for building flexible-yet-structured content, and what the tradeoffs look like in practice.

It's a real-world example of why content modeling decisions made early in a project have consequences that ripple through everything that comes after.