Show off your Drupal site

I've updated my site http://www.aperture.ca to full Drupal from SMF. Although the site is live I have several more ideas to implement in the next few weeks. I usually keep my personal site designs pretty simple so you won't see any dazzling graphics on this site.

It took some time to convert the SMF forums db to Drupal. I had to do the following

Convert SMF to PHPBB2
Convert PHPBB2 to Drupal 4.7
Convert Drupal 4.7 to Drupal 5.7

The Great Sunflower Project is one of a growing number of citizen science experiments. It relies on volunteers to monitor bee activity in thier local gardens and report back specific data that the scientists at San Francisco State University can include in their research.

I just want to share this as an encouragement to the many who are struggling to get drupal up.

I am not an IT geek and the web world is certainly not my forte, having spent most of years in banks. Thus when i decided to do something about my idea on a non-profit organization, i looked around for an appropriate software. In bewilderment.

Tried Wordpress, Movable Type, B2evolution, Expression Engine, Textpattern, Drupal, Joomla, Plone. By 'tried' i meant i downloaded it, and play around with it to the best of my ability. Except for Plone which i cannot seem to install it.

And my ability at that time was not much. My hosting provider gave me access to the space rented from them. I stared at the open space. Read through all the documentation. And wondered what on earth is MySQL, ftp and chmod. Through a process of trial and error, i managed to learn and read through many books on php, css, html in addition to the hosting manual and the manuals of the above softwares. It is all too much as what i wanted is to 'click and play'. The simplest to install is Wordpress but i was looking for something more than a blog.

Thus i just want to say i understand the frustrations of newbies who are trying to setup their websites.

Erste Nachhilfe, one of the leading sites for finding a private tutor (German: "Nachhilfe") or a language partner in Germany is built on Drupal 5.

Members can build profiles, buddy list, groups, they can offer tutoring or find tutors or language partners, they can contact others and post relevant content.

If you come to Germany and need German lessons ("Deutschunterricht oder Nachhilfe"), or if you are looking for a Tandem partner, feel free to stop by.

Cheers,

Tempi (http://www.tempi.it) has launched, using a Fabriko-developed Drupal site. (http://fabriko.co.uk)

Tempi is a weekly Italian magazine with a national audience. It covers national and international politics from an Italian perspective and in Milan is distributed with Il Giornale.

Fabriko developed all the back-end management features for the weekly, including page-positioning, editionalising and image management.

One of my goals this year was to learn more about Real Estate Investment -- not the late night huckster type of Real Estate Investment but the serious stuff. I've found one of the best ways to learn is to teach so I put my first site in Drupal up called www.realestatdispatch.com.

The modules that are useful are: