Show off your Drupal site

I'm a self certified drupal noob but have finally pulled off a finished community site for a bunch of online computer gamers I hang around with in my spare time. We mainly play games such as COD2 and BF2142 (for those who are familiar with such things). The community has been going for a long time and previously had a php-nuke site (like lots of other gamers) and a seperate hosted forum solution. It has been my goal for sometime to prove to myself and others that php-nuke is a pretty dire CMS and that gaming groups could and would be much better served using something as versatile as Drupal. I also wanted to integrate everything under one roof (forums and website).

Well I've finally finished and the visitors and team members seem to be pleased with the results, so I thought I'd share it here. It has to be said this isn't the worlds most wonderful looking site as like I said I'm no expert, the other thing that had to be taken into account was minimising the culture shock for some of our long serving and not so cutting edge web users so from this point of view certain parts of the site such as our forums are designed to look and behave like our older setup. More features will develop and become more streamlined looking as and when people get used to all the new toys. anyway if u think this looks bad you should have seen the old site ;)

Site uses a whole host of modules, some I've had to tinker with to get to behave in the way the users expected or wanted. The best thing about the site from an admin point of view has been Taxonomy Access as there is a lot of private content and profile information that can only be viewed by certain roles......which is not something we could previosuly not have achieved.

THRIVEBook.com was created by my agency to promote the book THRIVE: Standing on your own two feet in a borderless world. You probably won't think it looks un-Drupal-like, but it required some pretty extensive configuration and hacking to make Drupal do what was necessary for this fairly simple site.

Notable stuff regarding the Theme:

• Layout started as a mashup of Bluemarine and Wireframe, with so many changes that there's hardly any of either remaining. It's fixed-width and tables-based.
• "Tab" controls and other elements that only appear after login were moved to the top of the right column, to avoid confusing clients and creative directors with these un-designed elements that would be suddenly appearing above the carefully-designed kicker/headline structure.
• Because I couldn't find a good way to do head/subhead or kicker+head structures, I essentially removed the TITLE from node displays -- all node titles are realized by including an h2+h1 pair at the top of the content block.
• Before I decided to give up on using the Drupal TITLE field, I had to solve the problem of how to include entities and formatted text in a title. So I used a technique I found in the snippets area to add a funtion to the theme that essentially parsed a[n] [extended] subset of BBCode.

Annonce Maroc is a french site for morocco, classified site, i redesign with a css template

www.annoncemaroc.net

Wikimedia is using Drupal for their fundraising efforts. You can see the site here: http://fundraising.wikimedia.org

Blogged about here: (http://webschuur.com/node/673)

It's pretty simple and straight forward, but it looks good what they are doing with the "Live Contributions" at the top and listing all the supporters.

Does anyone know if this is done with some components from CiviCRM and if not can someone from Wikimedia explain what was used?

We just launched this site for a small bidge school which supports homeschooling families. The school holds classes 2 days a week while the other days, students are at home working through assigments under parental supervison. As you can imagine, communication is rather key to this group. After a few weeks of sand boxing and playing with 5.xx we rollled back to 4.7 because of module availability. A little about the site configuration:

-Roles defined for Teachers, Parents, and Students
-Taxonomy will be used for Privacy control by role and class. this is not yet fully implemented.
-Forums are defined for each role group plus a few on general interest such as trading post and support.
-slash green theme was used because we like the crisp look and the tabs for primary links. I have struggled alot with thinking about themeing but it just hasn't come to me yet.
-organic groups have been set up for each class so teachers can post assignment and classes can exchange info.

One of the more interesting things for me was learnig to use taxonomy blocks to have a self building course catalog page. Perhaps this is old stuff to many of you Drupal veterans but for me this is very cool stuff. I suspect I will find many other uses for the techniques I used there. The course sheets themselves use the CCK. Again, I think there is much room for improvement but I have not explored the templating tools much yet.

Being new to the CMS and php world this has really been a learning experience for me.
I finally got around to installing and looking at Drupal and within a day or two I now have the beginnings of a site.

This is my first attempt, I still have quite a bit of work to do but for a novice I don't think it's half bad.
Thanks to all of the developers for making a wonderful tool!!!

Let me know what you think http://www.quest4faith.com

Jerry