First Drupal site for our company

Hi,

Our first site created in Drupal is http://butrans.co.uk and is intended for a UK audience.

I've found creating a site in Drupal so much easier than my alternative at work, SharePoint.

I would say that one of the things that "stuck out" was the incredibly small amount of code I had to write; there are two custom modules, one to handle the validation of the batch number to check if patients are really patients and another that is a bit of a cribbing exercise from the Pirate Filter to look out for brandnames in text and make sure they are emboldened (our house style). In all, about a dozen or so lines.

The template is based on Zen which helped a lot. The Views module and various plugins have been used to get the effects I wanted and I've found it to be very flexible.

Of course, I'm learning all the time and the things I would do differently are...

• Make only one content type and use taxonomy more to divide content between public, patients and professionals;
• Use many, many more pictures - I guess if we had the time we would reduce the "lists" around everywhere and use picture libraries to make navigation a little more exciting;
• Learn more about the XML Sitemap module and how to use it better.

Hope that is useful.

I'll try to remember to post links to the other two or three sites I have on the go, hopefully incorporating some of the lessons learned.

Rachel Lawson
www.napp.co.uk (SharePoint but I can't say anything bad - the guy that coded it is sat next to me!)