Over the past two months I've been working in my spare time on a website gallery (http://drupalbased.com) dedicated to Drupal powered websites, now I'm finally happy to announce it to the rest of the drupal community.
The site is built using Drupal 6 and because of this the first step I did before I started anything was to plan on a piece of paper exactly what I wanted on the site.
The site's main focus is showcasing with images so the first module that came to my mind was CCK image, but that wasn't drupal 6 ready so I was pleased to find another module called 'Image' maintained by walkah, which after testing it out turned out to work perfectly for my needs! it allows me to simply upload a screenshot and the image module takes care of resizing and thumbnail creation.
The rest of the modules I had on my list were drupal 6x ready even though some were still in dev release, I would like to add that I recommend http://drupalmodules.com when searching for modules, it makes things alot easier.
After making sure all the modules were drupal 6 ready I started the next stage of creating the layout design in Photoshop.
The Layout
The layout is quite simple and to the point and that's how I like my sites. this site was the 2nd outcome of two layouts one which was light (white/blue) the other dark ( the one you see now). The colour choice is something I'm sure many will disagree on but because the site is showcasing I feel darker colours work well and allows the website thumbnails being showcased to stand out.