By mortenbh on

Okey her is my problem..
I have been running my site in WP and Joomla for some time, but its not what i was looking for..

I run a arcade/game site and I want it to "look and feel" something like this site: hxxp://xspill.no (xx = tt)

what do I do?
Do I have to make all the modules myself? are there modules that are like this allready? Anything I can use for this site..

I will try to recap what i need:

The mainpage should have the following specs:
Lists (toplist with 10-15 games):
- Newest games (with feeds)
- Most played games (with feeds)
- Top rated games (with feeds)

Main content:
- Recommended games
- Newest games (all)

The site need to have "singel gamesite":
Gametitle
Descrition
Number of time played
Tags
Comments
Ratingsystem
Social bookmarks

All games listed on the site are from other websites, so i need a top frame with the rating and description and a ad..

Its not to good explained, but its what i need.. It would be great if someone to guide me in the right direction..

Thanks!

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mark matuschka commented

Drupal's a good choice to do your site. Most of what you want should be possible with views, cck and various other existing modules, plus a bit of custom code here and there which you can put into a custom module.

Lists (toplist with 10-15 games):
- Newest games (with feeds) - VIEWS
- Most played games (with feeds) - VIEWS plus code to increment play count
- Top rated games (with feeds) - haven't done this before but you could try voting API

Main content:
- Recommended games - voting API again?
- Newest games (all) - VIEWS

Use CCK to define a game content type to store these:
Gametitle
Descrition
Number of time played

Tags - use the built in taxonomy module
Comments - built in comments module
Social bookmarks - service links module

Hope this helps.

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caign
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mortenbh commented

Thanks for your reply, I will try out this. .I aslo think that that Drupal is the best way for me site..:)

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mortenbh commented

Okey..I have now installed the modules that are listed above.. But Im having a hard time finding good themes for Drupla, the standartheme is by far the best..But I cant use that...So where do I go to get some nice themes?

Also, I would like to have the sitecontent to be listed like on this site: hxxp://www.xpill.no

How can I do that?

Thanks ppl!

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mark matuschka commented

You can get themes from http://drupal.org/project/themes. But in general, quality Drupal themes are not as widely available as they could be. If you find a nice theme or layout somewhere I can convert it to a phptemplate theme if you like.
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caign
www.caignwebs.com.au

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mark matuschka commented

Also, I would like to have the sitecontent to be listed like on this site: hxxp://www.xpill.no

You have to register the domain name, set up a hosting account and direct the domain on the registrar's name servers to the hosting.
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caign
www.caignwebs.com.au

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CFW commented

Today i visit hxxp://xspill.no and must say i like the layout, nice work. My question is, how did you setup this site? We used Joomla and puarcade before but at the moment puarcade is not compatible with Joomla 1.5. And does some one know if it's possible to save highscores in a game?