Show off your Drupal site

I've got my Los Angeles area food blog running on Drupal 5.1, making extensive use of CCK, Views, Contemplate, Panels, Location, Fivestar and even Logotool. The address is:

http://www.taste-buzz.com

I started by using CCK to create content types with custom fields and Views to sort through them. This provided the basic infrastructure for the whole site.

When I wanted to change how the CCK teasers behaved, I included Contemplate. This allowed me to intuitively and easily continue to write content with a !--break-- in the body to signify my teaser. I then used Contemplate to do a preg_replace on the img URL so that in a teaser view, clicking the article's image brings up the article's single node page, whereas clicking the article's image on the single node page brings up the Flickr link.

Contemplate also allowed me eliminate Taxonomy Links altogether, since I only use Taxonomy to provide a free-tag link between posts of an arbitrary name and actual restaurants that are strictly named. This means that I can make my blog entry title some snarky witty title, and have it easily reference to a restaurant node. I'm actualy planning on eliminating Text fields in my content types made by CCK entirely, switching those all over to just use Taxonomy.

I just finished converting this site from a static html page to a dynamic drupal site about a month before American Idol started. For those of you that aren't familiar with this somewhat controversial site it goes out of its way to promote bad singers or those who otherwise would not be the favorite of the producers. They get a lot of media attention and this season its been as big as ever.

Version

I chose to use version 4.7 because 5.0 was released a couple weeks after I started working on the site. After I converted a site to 5.x it just didn't have the options that I needed.

Forums

Initially I wanted to convert their phpBB forums to use the drupal forums but I was low on time and that didn't make the cut. I have real good integration with phpBB though. It would be hard to tell that they are using different software.

Scale

Currently it's on a beefy dedicated server.
2 - Intel Core Duo 2 2.4 Ghz Processors
2 Gigs of ram
Raided 320 Gig hard drives

The server is getting hit pretty hard and we might have to scale this a little more. We get on average of 250,000-300,000 page views per day and 1,500,000 - 2,000,000 hits per day. That equals out to about 40 gigs of bandwidth per day as well. I enlisted in the Boost module in order to keep the server responsive. Without that it was choking quite a bit.

I created this restaurant site a year or so ago. Just thought I'd throw it out there.

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Just made a site http://www.dr-architekten.de. It does not look Drupalish at all. Yea I know that it is not portal and drupal do not really fits into this category. Just a showcase

This site is provided in Italian and Slovene. It's my first work with drupal

http://www.drupalsites.net/links/goto/783/747/links_weblink

Connessomagazine.it is an italian online magazine. It is my third work with drupal.

http://www.connessomagazine.it