Drupalcon Boston 2008 - media

Glamour Paris

martin gersbach — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:59:38 +0000

Glamourparis.com is the french version of the well-known Glamour Magazine, published by CondéNast editorial (Vogue, Wired, Architectural Digest and other magazines)

Glamour Paris found in Drupal a flexible app that helps the development on record time, even with the integration of external ecommerce solutions.

The success of Drupal was the creation of many custom blocks and 45 Content Types, some of them with more than 50 CCK fields and each one with a dedicated TPL.

Now, glamourparis.fr has 5M pages views…
This project was developed for RappCollins /DDB Paris under request from CondeNast

UrbanMinistry.org

rdsmith@drupal.org — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:04:48 +0000

UrbanMinistry.org, which TechMission launched in April 2007, is one of the leading Web 2.0 destinations for the faith-based social services sector with partners including Salvation Army, World Vision, Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, CCDA and many others. The site is an integration of Drupal, CiviCRM, Moodle and ChristianVolunteering.org.

The site has over 5,500 items of content including a Wiki for with thousands of pages of nonprofit resources and over a thousand workshops audios and videos on nonprofit topics from partner nonprofit conferences. Site media are presented using a variety of customized node types: videos can easily be embedded from YouTube and other external services, audio can be bulk imported from the filesystem and played on an embedded Flash player, book listings can be imported from Amazon, and both blogs and wiki entries can be easily composed using FCKEditor. Most recently, we added a jobs board using the Jobs Module which uses a custom CCK nodetype to present user-submitted job opportunities.

All the content coming from TechMission, its partners, and site users can be classified using multiple Taxonomy vocabularies. Partner content is presented in distinct themes using Taxonomy Theme. Taxonomy Access Control Light restricts access to members-only content.

Users can find content quickly by navigating through the Book hierarchy in our Encyclopedia of Urban Ministry wiki or by using the Faceted Search to drill down through the taxonomy structure. Links to both Faceted Search results pages and custom Views are used to present specific types of content, such as CCDA conference audio from 2006 or books on volunteering targeted at churches. Pathauto creates readable URLs for all nodes, taxonomy terms, and RSS feeds on the site. Users may also subscribe to our media through iTunes; we use Views RSS combined with the FeedBurner module to generate podcasts with trackable subscription statistics.
Our UrbanMinistry.org Drupal installation serves content up to other domain names, including ChristianVolunteering.org, BlazingGrace.org, and City Vision College (www.cityvision.edu). Referer Themes change the site look and feel radically depending on what site users have previously been viewing.

The site provides association management system using the combined power of Drupal and CiviCRM. Membership in TechMission’s AC4 association and enrollments at City Vision College are handled by CiviMember. The site also provides Google mapping capability for over 2,000 nonprofit organizations using CiviCRM. New AC4 members, City Vision College students, and ChristianVolunteering.org are also automatically granted accounts on UrbanMinistry.org.

The site is also integrated with our online school City Vision College. Students can use a single-signon between the the Moodle course management system at cityvision.edu/courses and UrbanMinistry.org. All major course content is available for free online through UrbanMinistry.org.

Drupal’s flexibility and modular structure make it the ideal platform for a rapidly-changing community-based website like ours. From small beginnings, UrbanMinistry.org has quickly grown to become a central hub for TechMission’s programs, as well as a media repository for several prominent. The site has become integral to our mission of using technology to transform vulnerable communities.

Brian McMurray

bmcmurray — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:21:33 +0000

The personal portfolio site of interactive and web developer Brian McMurray. The site uses Panels2, Views, Views Slideshow, CCK (Imagefield and Node Reference), SimpleFeed, and Imagecache as the main powerhouse modules. The site has a few custom content types: Project, Image, and Video.

Intuitive to manage, Projects contain the information about a particular portfolio project. Image and Video content are linked to a project via a Node Reference field. On project pages, a Views Slideshow block reads in the nid from the url arguments and uses it as a node reference argument to load all Image or Video content associated to the project. SimpleFeed aggregates recent blog posts from Brian’s blog, cascadingStyle.net. Drupal’s built-in story content is used for the “Portfolio Updates” area of the site. Imagecache handles all of the image resizing and cropping needed for the site.

The theme was originally based off Internet Services and then heavily modified and customized by Brian and keeps to the design aesthetic of his blog. The site functions and displays in all major browsers and validates XHTML 1.0 Strict.

JustCauseIt.com

Gregory Heller — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:07:13 +0000

JustCauseIt.com is the website for the upcoming print magazine, JUST CAUSE. The website provides editorial content from the magazine and expanded coverage on topics covered in the magazine including directories of organizations, calendars of related events and interactive blogging for individuals, organizations and corporate CSR. This vibrant social network allows many voices to be heard, and facilitates civic engagement on a local level – while still linking people across the country around common causes.

The initial version of the site was built in approximately 3 months with a cross functional team including a Project Manager, Lead Engineer, Theme Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Information Architect, Visual Designer and Application Specialist. The client was closely involved in the process from its inception and continues to be as new features are deployed on an iterative basis.

The site makes significant use of CCK, Views and Panels, as well as Organic Groups and a number of other contributed modules.

Ads of the World

kbahey — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:24:43 +0000

Ads of the World is a commercial advertising archive and community showcasing the best and most interesting creative work worldwide. It is running image and video modules.

The site has seen continued growth posing unique challenges in terms of performance and resource utilization. By carefully tuning the servers and Drupal, we handled this growth quite adequately without introducing complexity.