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Author Web Site: C.J. Box

By donhajicek on

Here is a site that I built for a friend of mine... from planning to photography and design to theming, code tweaks (no, I did not hack core) and implementation.

http://www.cjbox.net

Let me know what you think.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Miami.com

By dnguyen on

I didn't have anything to do with it, but it's from my sister paper: Miami.com just officially relaunched as an entertainment/arts site, built in Drupal:
http://www.miami.com/

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Red Room: A Community for Writers

By ladylolauren on

The recent explosion of social networking sites has led to a rush to tap into new markets. A case in point at ISL (Insight + Strategy + Logic) is Red Room, an online community for writers of all stripes. The project is the brainchild of entrepreneur Ivory Madison. The goal of the site is to be the premier destination for authors to congregate with fans and discuss their books and ideas. Many high profile authors including Maya Angelou, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini and Salman Rushdie have been on the site since day one.

While the Web has plenty of sites on which you can buy books, there is a paucity of places geared toward building dialogue about the books beyond what is necessary to move product. On many book-related sites, the authors themselves have largely been left out of the picture, leaving them to either establish their own limited Web presence or do without. This is a shame when you consider what could be on a good author website — who better to blog than someone that makes a living spinning a good tale? Red Room offers every author the opportunity to easily build a presence to interact with their readers and with each other.

The client came at us with a list of features: blogging, comments and reviews, biographies, information about published works, event listings, streaming video, and podcasts. They required a robust, moderated, and extensible backend, with tagging and search tools to allow the user to navigate the large volume of content that thousands of writers would pump into the site. Most importantly, the site’s content generation tools needed to be easy to use by authors that wouldn’t necessarily have experience using technology.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

WGBH.org Being Rebuilt With Drupal

By philjohnsonWGBH on

Hi there,

I'm not sure if the showcase is the right forum for this, but it seemed liked the best fit.

WGBH, a public TV and radio broadcaster in Boston, is rebuilding its web site, http://www.wgbh.org using Drupal. WGBH is the producer of many popular public television shows like Frontline, Nova, Masterpiece and many more.

I'm the technical director for the site and am the lead developer overseeing the rebuild. We hope to get it rebuilt and relaunched later this year. Pardon me while I knock on some wood.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Dog-Park-USA.com, A Drupal/Google Maps site on a dime

By Gman on

Dog Park USA is a testament to the leverage Drupal as a Content Management Framework (CMF) gives web site developers. With the large array of core and contributed modules, and a bit of experience, the short time it takes to get a functioning site up and ready for content contribution can be astonishing.

Since my wife and I are developing this site in our spare time, our limiting factor is time. Re-inventing the wheel is not something we want to do, and with the speed, breadth and depth of Drupal, its contributed modules and its great community, we didn't need to.

Our goal was to create a site that tabulated dog parks across the United States, display Google Maps for each park as well as regional maps with many parks, link photo galleries and reviews to each dog park, create a blog for the editors, a simple forum to ask and answer questions and have a frontpage that pulls much of the new content together. Not all that tall of an order, but we all know that website always take longer than you think they will.

The rest of this article will be contain some brief descriptions of how we created the desired functionality through Drupal's module, links to all the pertinent module, themes and support documents, followed by some points of customization that really made the site our own (it is true that some custom code was written, the http://api.drupal.org documentation still speeds up the process considerably).

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

H.JLYNN Collection -- An Ubercart Jewelry Store

By jrust on

After three months development we're excited to finally see our first ubercart site be pushed out the door at http://www.hjlynn.com/

It's a small site in terms of products (only about 40, some of which still need images), but it has lots of great features thanks to the ubercart & drupal teams and all the contributors.

When I was researching what shopping cart to use for this project I had three criteria: cost (free!), stability, and ease of use for both developer and store admin. I looked at the Drupal eCommerce project and Magento and Ubercart. eCommerce is good and I've used it in the past, but it doesn't seem to have the polish, AJAX features, or user community behind it (this website is a huge plus, IMO, for ubercart). Magento was (and still is) in beta and was not recommended for live use and it's a non-Drupal app which poses challenges. Ubercart, I decided, was the best tool for the job and having finished the site I am very glad we chose it.

Because I've found this sort of list useful when I was developing the site here is a rundown of the major modules we used for building the site:

  • uc_discount: for providing role-based discounts to wholesale buyers.
  • uc_aac: for updating the price dynamically based on what color they select.
⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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