Show off your Drupal site

I have just put the rebuild of jaypan.com live. Until now, my site has been the site of a freelance Drupal developer. It filled the job quite well, and got me a lot of work over the past couple of years, but design-wise was mediocre at best.

I have just hired my first employee, with plans for another in the next few months, so the site needed to be changed from a freelance developer's site to an agency site, as this is both the image I want to portray, and the type of work I am looking to get. So, I sat down and redesigned the site, and rebuilt it from the ground up.

The site is built in HTML5, on Drupal 7, with the RDF module enabled. This led to some issues, as no validators have this sytnax built into them, so in some parts I'm still shooting in the dark as far as what the valid syntax will be. However, there is some press on the net to further this combination of html5 with RDF+a, so hopefully in the coming months I will be able to properly validate the code.

We recently launched the Drupal system behind JamesBondLifestyle.com.

Originally an HTML website with several databases for comments, users and a forum. We migrated the databases into Drupal and setup the base content type structures, views and panels. We were then able to migrate all content using Ckeditor with Ckfinder and other convenient tools.

Cell Family protects teenagers against distracted driving, cyber-bullying and sexting. The website connects to the Cell Family mobile application that is installed on the children's mobile phone. this mobile application is connected to parents' phone and sends them alert calls and SMS in the event of rash driving, keeps a record of the messages and senders to the child's phone and prevents calling and texting while the child is driving.

We used Drupal 6 with Ubercart 2 to program this website and make it talk to the web application interface that the parents use to monitor the activity and their account. The website ordering system was changed to offer a better control and the Drupal CMS was custom-built to offer more control to the website administrator. Our web developers and Drupal programmers worked together to release this site in a record time of 2 months with all the interfacing that was required with their web and mobile application.

Drupal modules used for this child security web application

• Ubercart for E-Commerce
• Nodewords
• Email registration
• Oor own custom modules(for fetching data from current site to Drupal site & vice versa)
• Page title module

The Drupal 7 Manual site was originally set up to illustrate the Drupal 7 Manual but has been extended to illustrate some of the modules in the Drupal 7 Modules Manual.

Some of the modules illustrated include the following.

My latest project using Drupal 7x, themed with Zen. The client required a CMS to manage their property and client information. The emphasis was on design and theming but also with a simple to use interface. Used the installation package 'Corporate' and expanded the functionality from there. Very happy when drupal looks nice:

http://www.fairflats.com

Comments, suggestions and feedback more than welcomed! :=)

I want to say, right out of the gate, that I'm tech literate, but I'm not a programmer. I'm a comedy writer and film producer and for my new movie, False Profit, my creative team and I wanted to reinvent the special features you see on the DVD, and offer an extensive and interactive behind the scenes look to our backers on Kickstarter.

At first we looked at the usual suspects: open-source forum software, wordpress, etc. Forums offered us the interactivity with our audience we wanted, but most CMS's didn't offer us the ability to block our proprietary data from people who haven't paid for the content.

Then we found Drupal.

I've worked with Drupal before as a writer for a large web magazine, but Drupal 7 was a revelation. It was easy to configure exactly the way we wanted and the built in permissions scheme was perfect. Drupal itself made us expand our idea of what this could be. In just a few days, we were able to build exactly what we were looking for, without once having to hit our heads against a wall.

We'll be using our Drupal page in three ways: as a forum to communicate with our audience; as a CMS to give them a behind the scenes look at the movie as it's made; and as a document management system for us to share scripts, budgets, schedules, etc, with each other as we collaborate and make this film.