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Illustrated Photography is a pet project which I started in January 2007.

At that point it was little more than an idea, and all I really knew was that I wanted to use my limited HTML skills to create a Photography Magazine, which would combine editorial "top-down" content with community "web 2.0" interactivity.

The idea was that it would be a place where photographers of all skill levels could get together, learn about photography and perhaps even display their own portfolios.

I then set out to learn PHP from scratch, imagining I'd pick it up in a weekend.

After about three months I was well and truely discouraged, and my PHP was nowhere near the level needed to create the engine that would serve the site.

Enter: Drupal.

I first read about Drupal in a magazine, and after comparing it to Joomla, came to the conclusion that it was a much more powerful and intuitive platform, and therefore more suited to my needs.

My initial instalation problems was overcome when I desisted from installing PHP, Apache and MySQL individually, but rather installed them as a package using Apache Triad.

The Theme

http://www.pressrelease001.com/

I was looking around for the right script for a press release service so eventually ended up looking at what Drupal had to offer - I couldn't believe the level of functionality that it contained.

Started working on the project during the same week that 6 was launched, so jumped straight in with 6.

Perhaps a bit of a problem as the contrib modules have taken a while to catch up - there's still a number of modules that I'm waiting for to come out of development version for 6.

The idea behind the design of the site was that the content had to be easy to read and with as much accessibility as possible, and a page that wouldn't be bogged down by javascript, unnecessary images and flash animation.

Actually, other than Adsense there is no javascript at all on the site. The CSS is scalable (using ems), and has complete cross-browser compatibility.

Contrib modules used are:

CCK, FeedAPI, Avatar Selection, Block Clone, Custom Breadcrumbs, Forward, Integrated Metatags, Integrated Metatags - CCK, Meta tags, Pathauto, Printer-friendly pages, Service links, Taxonomy Menu, Token, Simplefeed, CAPTCHA, Tagadelic, Taxonomy Image,

Thanks Drupal developers!

Hello All,

Drupal is so wonderful and I created this site in 3 months of time. Eventhough, this is just an initial version, I have used lots of drupal modules and therefore lot of functionalities.

is a travel site for south indian attractions. I would like to get feedback / suggestions from you.

Thanks

I've created the Last.fm and Tabbo.org module, which is rather simple. It displays content from Last.fm (favorite bands, albums or songs) and Tabbo.org (buttons with stuff you care about - Drupal, Debian, Ubuntu, Firefox, Bob Marley, Vim or even Emacs if there's something wrong with you ;) ). Little more info on both:

• Last.fm is a music site. You get an account there and enter login/pass in a last.fm supported music player (don't know about Windows, but on Linux pretty much every music player that I've tried has last.fm integrated). The most basic functionality that comes as a result of this - you get to see which bands/albums/tracks you listen the most. My module lets you display that in a block.
• Tabbo is a site that lets bloggers (or anyone else with some web presence - even myspace profile will do) show little buttons (those tiny, 80x15 pixels in size) with the stuff they care about. Go to that site, find things you like (Drupal is there, too), get an account and drop your username in my module's settings. Also, all music-related pages on Tabbo (example: Rock category) have a Last.fm import tool - enter your Last.fm username to have some of your favorite bands' buttons displayed.

Both kinds of blocks the module are demoed on my blog.

I'd really like some feedback... would you like to see some new functionality? Should the output go through drupal's theme functions? Does the code suck in any way and beg for improvement? Have you tried it and decided you want to keep it on your site (gimme an URL, I want to see it!). Does everything look right when used on your site? (also, please give me an URL if anything's wrong).

P.S. I want to keep my module on drupal.org - I've applied for a CVS account on April, 14, then replied to "please give us more details and some code" email on April 23 (wasn't really ready before)... and haven't heard from anyone since then... is that normal or should I do something in case that 2nd email got lost?

Dear Chaps,

I'm finishing up a site with a simple custom theme.

It has a webform for contact, which uses the node as a block module
Navigation on the RHS.
JQuery before & after pics which display on mouseover.

It's my first drupal website in quite a while. The development of the theme was very quick and easy starting from scratch. It's not perfect by any means. It shows up correctly in recent versions of IE7 (version numbers 6000+), and firefox 2.0.0.14.

I have not tested it with earlier versions of IE7.

It has been quite a long time since last major update. But the all new version of tips for Drupal photoblog enthusiasts is available at: http://andreys.info/blog/2008-05-04/photoblog-on-drupal-rev-2

It is now Drupal 5.x but not yet D6 for a simple reason: not all the lovely modules are available for D6 yet.

Hope it will help somebody and please leave your comments!