The best Drupal examples..

By philipk on 12 Jul 2004 at 11:33 UTC

So, what are the very best Drupal examples..

(and no posting your own site)

Mine would have to be:
http://www.musicforamerica.com/

Comments

What if your own site is the

CodeMonkeyX commented 12 July 2004 at 16:23

What if your own site is the best example you know of? :)

Seriously though, I have always liked http://www.urlgreyhot.com/ I assume it is run on Drupal because I have seen the author posting here and creating modules/themes.

That is a nice site ...

Mahatma commented 6 April 2005 at 10:09

... and by the way whats that little robot toy? Jean Luc Picards first crib toy?

best visited drupal websites!

Marcio Bastos-1 commented 28 November 2008 at 12:58

i think it is drupal also from what i know!
i also like it :)

visit this site www.fashionata.be it is 100% customized drupal site
cheers,
Marcio
www.creandi.com

www.fashionata.be

naprapat commented 6 June 2011 at 12:06

What module are you using fot the right sidebar, to add the commersial adds?

second that!

chrisada commented 12 July 2004 at 19:42

Of course it is running Drupal, look at the URI. :)

Actually http://terminus1525.ca is the most impressive I have ever seen, but it must have been a heavily-hacked Drupal they are running there, so urlgreyhot got my vote.

the most recent version of terminus is /almost/ vanilla 4.4.x . there are (obviously) some custom modules, but the bulk of the customization is in the terminus.theme (which is a slim 1698 lines of code ;) )

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wow. drupal continues to

flufftronix commented 21 March 2005 at 19:07

wow. drupal continues to amaze me.

wow terminus1525.ca really

geoline commented 30 January 2008 at 12:43

wow terminus1525.ca really is a nice drupal example

another one

cel4145 commented 12 July 2004 at 19:49

both terminus and urlgreyhot demonstrate a lot of Drupal potential. and here's another site with a nice design: cialog.

I want this theme!

mattmm commented 13 July 2004 at 00:03

I want this theme!

well, if you like that one

cel4145 commented 13 July 2004 at 00:27

Check out WoobleLab: Online Community for New Media Artists. Just saw it a few days ago. It looks very Drupal like, yet, aesthetically pleasing.

thanks :-)

pmentzer commented 14 July 2004 at 20:28

Thanks for the vote cel4145! It's nice to get some positive feedback after just launching. I just added a video (mpg) tutorial to the WoobleLab site today...trying to get more of that "immersive" feel over time. But, I have to say, I'd vote for the terminus folks...that site is REALLY nice. Speaking of which, I like the flash integration on the home page that they've got...I tried that in the "mission" area but no luck...more to figure out how to do!

this website is down

idflorin commented 1 April 2010 at 16:49

this website is down for a long time.

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cialog

Patches-1 commented 5 February 2008 at 04:15

Can you tell me who designed that site (cialog) I need to have my new Drupal site redesigned.
Thanks,
Patrick

We could certainly help you

tjholowaychuk commented 5 February 2008 at 15:11

We could certainly help you out, my designers blow most of this work away ( IMO )
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Mighty Tiger

Robert Castelo commented 13 July 2004 at 00:50

This site also looks cool...

http://ichris.ws/

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Any idea how to create those

mattmm commented 14 July 2004 at 23:17

Any idea how to create those mouse over effects on his main links in the header?

looks like

ax commented 15 July 2004 at 00:19

CSS Creator's light weight multi level menu

which i suggested to be included in drupal core

from alistapart

chrisada commented 16 July 2004 at 13:11

:) Got the idea from here:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/horizdropdowns/

Not finished yet, but...

robertDouglass commented 15 July 2004 at 09:17

You can check out http://www.zofiart.com.

My client is still trying to figure out what should go on the front page, and the site will obviously have more text content, but the galleries are cool, and you wouldn't know immediately that it is Drupal (except for the urls, which I left in the default style). Please make comments for improvement so that we can fix it up nicely.

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acko.net

Bèr Kessels commented 15 July 2004 at 09:26

acko.net uses fronpage and very nice css to create a non standard and goodlooking website

[Ber | webschuur.com]

Illect

Robert Castelo commented 16 July 2004 at 13:21

Another great Drupal powered site:

http://www.illect.com

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Best Drupal Examples

radiofreebc commented 8 February 2005 at 01:08

I like ekosTV.com. They've got a simple, Drupal interface...and great content.

www.ekostv.com

better link

sepeck commented 8 February 2005 at 02:27

http://www.ekosproductions.com/site/
Perhaps this link which does NOT link to a Windows Media Player video would better display the site.

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Changed the URL

radiofreebc commented 8 February 2005 at 05:13

The Windows Media Player page has been removed, and the drupal page is now the homepage, so the link should load you right into the drupal-ness now.

www.ekosTV.com

I vote for terminus1525.ca.

nautis commented 9 February 2005 at 04:05

I vote for terminus1525.ca. That is really slick.

- matthew | nautis.com

I must say that's probably

joe@www.joepilot.net commented 9 February 2005 at 04:13

I must say that's probably the coolest looking Drupal based site out there. I also like http://www.nautis.com/, it's a neat design and really clean.

I second that! Several of

Donovan commented 9 February 2005 at 06:20

I second that! Several of the other sites are very striking and demonstrate some truly neat examples of what can be done with Drupal.

However, nautis.com just pulls everything together into an original and visually appealing package, with a very elegant character and overall "feel."

"It always seems impossible, until it is done."
- Nelson Mandela

nautis

indeman commented 17 July 2007 at 15:50

indeman from india
But that is not a Drupal site.

indeed

geoline commented 5 February 2008 at 08:31

yea, powered by wordpress *lol*

This is powered by wordpress not drupal

bolaowoade commented 17 July 2008 at 20:31

Though it's powered by wordpress it would make a brilliant drupal theme.

One that has gone under the

nautis commented 9 February 2005 at 05:34

One that has gone under the radar (that also provides really great content) is:

Of, By and For

- matthew | nautis.com

Theme?

srlinuxx commented 13 March 2005 at 21:25

Anyone know what theme that is?

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Lincoln's Revenge Version 2

kbahey commented 13 March 2005 at 21:50

The theme is called Lincoln's Revenge Version 2.

The author is Chris Messina (FactoryJoe), the same guy who wrote the SpreadFireFox theme, the Democratica theme (part of CivicSpace's distro of Drupal), and the new theme on CivicSpaceLabs web site.
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SpreadFireFox

kbahey commented 14 February 2005 at 02:00

Check http://SpreadFirefox.com.

It is a superb theme by FactoryJoe.

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about theme

coolsandythombare commented 24 September 2010 at 11:11

Hey hi...
nice theme.....
just tell me the name of theme u have used or give me the link sothat i can use the same theme.

.

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 24 September 2010 at 12:52

That post was almost 6 years ago. The site he linked to has changed but here's the original theme: http://drupal.org/project/spreadfirefox

Michelle

I am impressed with what

bernie commented 24 February 2005 at 04:46

I am impressed with what http://www.floatleft.org/ has done with drupal:

Including:
http://www.tacticaltech.org/
http://www.osiwa.org/

Any idea what templates they base these sites on?

wowsers!

bertboerland commented 13 March 2005 at 21:42

I had to check some standard URL's to find out that these are truly drupal sites. Whoever did this, Excellent work. I dont think the themes from these sites is or will be public though.
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floatleft

courtney commented 14 March 2005 at 18:57

gee, thanks for the compliments...but we should really be thanking the drupal developers and support community, as it's drupal that allows us to create such sites. so, thanks drupal!

to answer a couple of questions...all of our sites are drupal based and our themes don't really start from another theme. marieke, the floatleft designer, creates a mockup of the visual design, and then i implement it into a theme - typically starting with the code from theme.inc (theme_page, theme_node, etc...) and manually building the css.

you're right that the actual themes aren't available to the public, as they are custom designs for our clients. but if anyone has any questions on how we've done something on a particular site, let me know (http://drupal.org/user/5253/contact). i'd be happy to share ideas and code.

You site is one of the

hpk commented 14 March 2005 at 19:24

You site is one of the coolest one I've seen, and sure terminus guys have done a great job too!

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Code0range.net looks good

Jo Wouters commented 21 March 2005 at 20:44

I like this one a lot:
http://code0range.net/

It's a typical 3 columns-site, but the colors are great, it's very readable, and I like the way they use the user-avatars and the images for the categories.

fresh

bertboerland commented 21 March 2005 at 20:54

just loaded ourmedia.org and it looks good. it is currently under a slashdot so checkit in a day or two.
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This thread is old

wwwoliondorcom commented 17 March 2006 at 20:04

Hi,

I'd like to see the best examples available now, in march 2006, can you tell me where I should look?

Thanks.

http://www.oliondor.com

http://www.mlgpro.com

ericatkins commented 17 July 2007 at 18:13

http://www.mlgpro.com - a competitive video game community running front-page, panels, comments, and blogs. Check out how each user gets to theme their blog.

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SEOposition Theme for Drupal 5+

Julia_Kristiva commented 17 July 2007 at 20:20

Hello,
We've done some content writing for SEOposition.com - http://www.seoposition.com - over the past few months. Their SEO Position theme for 5.1 that will be called "Alek 2.0" will be launched to the Drupal community over the next few days. But overall they have one of the cleanest Drupal themes we've seen.

http://www.seoposition.com

FergusonPhotography.com

geraldferguson commented 30 January 2008 at 00:28

I like FergusonPhotography.com

It is a nice, dark theme based on the 'Foundation' theme.

Very clean site Design

tjholowaychuk commented 30 January 2008 at 00:40

Very clean site Design Inspiration Gallery. Hard to believe its drupal !!

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Why?

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 30 January 2008 at 02:19

Why is it hard to believe it's Drupal? There's a lot of nice Drupal sites out there.

Michelle

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Of course, just like any

tjholowaychuk commented 30 January 2008 at 04:03

Of course, just like any other framework lots are great. Just the majority of Drupal sites that I have seen are not very polished in presentation. Usually due to 'lazy' theming and not taking the extra time to create image inputs, things like that
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Yeah...

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 30 January 2008 at 04:10

That's why it seemed like such an odd comment. The look of the site is all on the themer's head. Has very little to do with Drupal.

Michelle

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I agree, but you also have

tjholowaychuk commented 30 January 2008 at 15:19

I agree, but you also have to admit that many are not that great looking, or stick to mods of garland etc
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adding

mrgoltra commented 30 January 2008 at 00:49

great stuff

This?

Laurentvw commented 30 January 2008 at 08:38

Maybe cjreport.com also deserves a mention in this thread.

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anything by sugar

mz906 commented 30 January 2008 at 15:17

anything by sugar publishing
http://sugarinc.com/

http://www.mtv.co.uk/

i really like the content ;)
http://www.alpinestars.com/

surprisingly i submitted both the sugar and mtv sites on another forum and other members tore them up!! saying they where poorly coded and horrible sites and drupal was a bloated CMS :(

the major sites i like is

dhayalan_ms commented 5 February 2008 at 08:39

an extreme customisation and styling

www.mothersclick.com
www.teamsugar.com

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www.nowpublic.com

johnbeamer commented 5 February 2008 at 17:57

This is a great site

Can we create similar sites

davepoon commented 8 February 2008 at 01:14

Can we create similar sites by customizing themes only?
or/and we also need to customizing modules and creating custom codes
in order to do that?

I have created two drupal based web sites by modifying themes, XHTML and CSS
to create some unconventional layout,
but hardly achieve what your example is.

Luxury Homes

tjholowaychuk commented 9 February 2008 at 01:26

http://edmonton.landmarkhomes.ca/
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Realy nice site

willi.firulais commented 9 February 2008 at 21:28

How many hours did you spent layouting it?
I realy like your work.

Thank you. Unfortunately the

tjholowaychuk commented 9 February 2008 at 22:29

Thank you. Unfortunately the 'green' promo is ruining the site haha... their contracted a seperate company for those however. Hours I cant really say, probably a good 30 - 40 hours tweaking CSS/Design elements. It is a hybrid of internal intranet data pushed to this site, and then of course Drupal nodes. The entire site took around 140 - 150 hours, still some fixing up to do though.
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"no posting your own site",

ax commented 13 February 2008 at 01:01

"no posting your own site", hu?

This is so old

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 13 February 2008 at 04:52

I don't know if anyone's realized it, but this post was started in 2004.. :)

I'm guessing he didn't want people just promoting their own sites.

Michelle

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haha thats

tjholowaychuk commented 13 February 2008 at 15:12

haha thats stupid..
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if you have a Drupal site

mrgoltra commented 17 July 2008 at 18:25

I would happily post it for you. heheheh

City of Athens

nsyll commented 17 July 2008 at 16:26

municipality of Athens http://cityofathens.gr also http://www.athina984.gr

My Favorites

eeyorr

he/him

commented 17 July 2008 at 20:38

Here are my top 7:
http://www.liptongreenmint.ro/
http://totalbodycare.net/
http://www.butterlondon.com/
http://www.mississippiremixed.com/
http://www.kristinascoop.be/
http://www.leuvenspeelt.be/
http://www.favoritethings.net/

- - - -
www.drupalmuseum.com
www.organicsitedesign.com

Check these out. I love them

bolaowoade commented 17 July 2008 at 20:40

Three cool drupal sites to check out:

http://spiritlibrary.com/

http://www.3gforfree.com/web/

http://www.bankruptcyhq.com/

And a fourth one too:

http://vi.vu/en/public

and another one

http://www.bizwiki.co.uk/

how about these

Mcol2 commented 5 September 2008 at 15:11

how about these two

http://www.leanhealthcareacademy.co.uk/

http://www.safeguardingchildrenea.co.uk/

I know it's not fair to

gausarts commented 6 September 2008 at 10:16

I know it's not fair to promote your own site. But since philipk started his inconsistency from the very beginning:), I'd like to show you a very gorgeous sample of newspaper site. The great thing is it is totally unfinished, it's just a rejected sample site, haha, it will simply remain there for the proof of concept on skinning some great modules, and most of all it's all based on zen_classic. I have made other better sites, of course, but as said earlier it's just unfair to promote your own site, right?

Enjoy:
http://ti.kamus-pintar.com/

love, light n laughter
gausarts

love, light n laughter

Best search ever

jorgenspit commented 4 November 2008 at 14:55

Well I think www.vraaghetlotte.nl is the best site. The different ways to search and find in the database are great. Peter, you rock!
For a dummy like me it is easy to manage, i love drupal!
Jörgen Spit
www.4milestones.nl

My biased opinion: Nothing

mstef commented 13 November 2008 at 23:47

My biased opinion:

Nothing more innovative, and it's quite nicely designed: Streetread

http://www.streetread.com

And Streetread Mobile (also Drupal powered)

http://www.streetread.com/m

Streetread is a financial news aggregator

subscribing

pharma commented 14 November 2008 at 03:21

subscribing

Forgot to mention: Internet

mstef commented 14 November 2008 at 18:08

Forgot to mention: Internet Explorer 6 isn't welcomed on the main site. Too complex for the host of IE6 bugs.

example site is not open

sudhanshunisha commented 28 April 2009 at 12:31

i have try many example site but not any one open, plz give some drupl example site url

Current Examples (2009)

renatak commented 19 July 2009 at 04:18

wow...this is an old thread. hardly any of these links work, and some are really not good examples of the power that is Drupal.
here is a good list:
http://www.drupalsites.net/blog/robo/1000-drupal-powered-sites-listed

Here is my site

cr0ss commented 17 November 2009 at 07:49

As an example:

http://dreamin.ru/
http://domas.com.ua/

UPD: one more realy beautiful project of mine: http://39-5.ru/

artemshymko.com

do you know of any forum

m8.mgmt commented 12 January 2010 at 03:17

do you know of any forum installations?

My forum

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 12 January 2010 at 03:29

Here's mine. :) http://couleeregiononline.com/forum

Michelle

Can you tell me, whether that

thebeardedguy commented 19 January 2010 at 10:16

Can you tell me, whether that forum is custom built or you are using some ready-theme???

Advanced Forum

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 19 January 2010 at 14:35

It's Advanced Forum. I customized the style somewhat but it's mostly color changes. The biggest changes were to the main forum page where I used Page Manager to customize it.

Michelle

Here is what I've done for my

duckzland commented 14 January 2010 at 10:17

Here is what I've done for my latest customer http://www.zweetsal.com/forum

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Drupal SaaS

OfficeMedium commented 14 January 2010 at 20:37

OfficeMedium

Web-based Business Intranet & Social Collaboration Software

First-ever Drupal-based SaaS

Check it out: http://www.officemedium.com

Amazing work!!! I liked it a

thebeardedguy commented 19 January 2010 at 10:17

Amazing work!!! I liked it a lot, bookmarking it :-)

This one is not bad as well

afaaro commented 15 January 2010 at 04:07

This one is not bad as well http://hamarey.com/media/

Here's another one

alnds commented 31 March 2010 at 22:58

This is a website created to assist potential graduate students.

Beyond Bachelor's

The site was designed specifically for undergraduates but anyone is welcome to join. It showcases some of the best modules drupal has to offer.

Very nice...

Starvin15 commented 2 April 2010 at 15:35

~~Alnds, the task / status ribbon at the bottom is really nice - was that custom development or a module?~~

Never mind, for anyone interested it is http://drupal.org/project/wibiya for the task / status ribbon.

http://buytaert.net/tag/drupa

lies commented 2 April 2010 at 02:01

http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites

See some showcase

vitthal commented 2 April 2010 at 09:33

Why dont you check for the showcases which showcase the best drupal websites?

I know this as the best and most updated drupal website

Check it here: - Drupal Lovers

http://www.musicforamerica.com/

singram commented 2 April 2010 at 14:27

musicforamerica.com is an expired domain.
If this is your domain, you still can renew it in your member control panel »

So?

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 2 April 2010 at 15:50

It's been 6 years since that site was posted. Not all websites last forever.

Michelle

What about Coulee Region

dreadfulcode commented 2 April 2010 at 22:29

What about Coulee Region Online? Pretty demonstrative for social sites, nice gradients btw.

Coulee Region Online

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 2 April 2010 at 23:01

I posted it above when someone was asking for a forum example. Over all, though, I don't think the site is a best Drupal example. There's still much work to be done before I'd consider it worthy of showcasing. :)

Thanks, though,

Michelle

We're in the same boat:

dreadfulcode commented 4 April 2010 at 20:23

We're never satisfied!

Seriously though, I think your site would be good to showcase perhaps as a starting point for teaching hobbyist developers, such as myself, how to develop a social driven Drupal Site.

It looks almost textbook- not a bad thing...

,

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 5 April 2010 at 02:10

Nah, this isn't just not done in the sense that there's endless tweaking. There's actually big chunks of functionality that need to be finished. Once it's done, I'll be writing quite a bit on what I did and how I did it to help others out.

Thanks, though.

Michelle

Radio station in Sochi, Russia

contorra commented 4 April 2010 at 10:45

Check out this radio site - we launched it this spring. Another one by the same designer is ad agency site, launched in December 2009.

This was built on

solona commented 6 August 2010 at 17:38

This was built on Drupal
http://www.tsawalk.ca

close this or renew

sneakerr commented 25 September 2010 at 16:57

cool sites and examples. That is why i like drupal.

nice sites...

xsean commented 26 September 2010 at 23:50

http://www.migf.com
http://www.visionkl.com

Energy Soda

mossill commented 28 September 2010 at 23:58

I love Drupal..... coming from the entertainment industry, it still works for me

http://www.drinkjerksoda.com

Sharing multimedia site

duckzland commented 29 September 2010 at 09:24

This site for sharing multimedia content like images, audio and video is build using drupal 6

http://www.unolens.com

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anonymous07 commented 6 October 2010 at 11:01

Some nice looking sites posted!