Site announcement

Based on D8's core theme 'Stable', our new agency website http://www.internet.ltd.uk is designed to demonstrate presentation quality and speed/performance aspects of the new system. We achieved a Pagespeed result of 90 by careful optimisation and coding. We also used css flexbox to manage design elements.

The Debug tool helped greatly with the identification and customisation of twig templates.

You can surely make something big with Drupal 8, but why not do something small with D8 either :-)

Here's a small company profile site I recently made with D8, started shortly after release of 8.0.0:

http://www.gims.de.com

Used no contrib modules on this page just D8 core, Forty Two as Theme (https://www.drupal.org/project/fortytwo) and some Jquery/Javascript Plugins.

For this year’s Drupalcamp in Cebu (Philippines), we decided to build the site ( https://2015.drupalcebu.org ) using Drupal 8.
Development started on beta-12, and we went live with RC 1.

Challenging but fun

Working with Drupal 8 beta versions was challenging. Specially before beta-15, we had some issues with core updates. But it was definitely fun and interesting.

We learned a lot about some of the great improvements of Drupal 8 : Twig, the Block system, the Configuration Management system ...

The whole project is Open Source and was released on Github.

Recently, the website letemps.ch has been relaunched on Drupal 8 / NP8.

This is a major milestone for Drupal 8 readyness and Dries honored the project with his tweet "With 4.2 million page views per month, Le Temps is probably the largest website on Drupal 8"
https://twitter.com/Dries/status/655758487008448513

A post about the relaunch can be found at the MD Systems blog:
http://www.md-systems.ch/en/blog/2015-10/successful-relaunch-of-letemps-ch

We are excited about the successful relaunch and very happy to see so many people interested in the project.

Learn about how http://fosterinteractive.com used Drupal 8 to relaunch the new http://DWW.com.

Highlights of the project include including migrating ~2500 articles from a legacy wordpress site, using schema.org to improve SEO, improving social reach with a custom hootsuite.com feed, and simplified the distribution of the firm’s bi-monthly email newsletter.

Read the Case Study here:

http://www.fosterinteractive.com/blog/dww-com-boutique-intellectual-prop...

gbyte.co has been ported to Drupal 8!

Upgrade path

Content types were created manually, after that most of the migration happened with custom scripts including all nodes, users and files.

The website was created between beta 13 and 15. Though beta-to-beta upgradability was first announced when beta 15 came out, in fact I had no serious issues upgrading core modules from beta 13 to 15. Upgrading contrib modules like colorbox, libraries, honeypot took code changes and patches.

Custom contributed module: Simple XML Sitemap

I have built my own small company site (working as freelancer) on Drupal 8: http://www.stefan-korn.de. (Sorry only in German language for the moment)

I started with Beta 3 and had a real hard time to get it updated. Finally I have managed to bring it to Beta 11. But needed to more or less recreate the site. I know that it is clear there is no supported upgrade path between beta versions, but really did not think it would be that hard ...

The inaugural Drupal North Regional Summit website was built by website sponsor Foster Interactive with Drupal 8. The website was produced on betas 6-10 with a multilingual component.

English: drupalnorth.org
French: drupalnorth.org/fr

The organizers wanted to make a bold statement about our region's talent and decided to launch the annual summit with a Drupal 8 theme and a multilingual Drupal 8 website.