community

Drupal sometime gets a bad name because designers have a hard time theming the site. It is true that you need to know more PHP than a designer ever wants to know, but if you get a good theme implementor, working along side your design, you can get sites look like this: Vintage Faith Church.

The Star Wars Artists Guild is a fan site devoted primarily to the needs of players of the Star Wars Role Playing Game. Founded initially to fill the void that most gamers are not artists, SWAG entered into internet as an off-shoot of swrpgnetwork.com. After a short time SWAG broke off and became its own site. Initial development was done with pmachine by Chris Curtis and Derek Jones. Some years later the site was given to Kris Vanderwater in the hopes that he would keep it running instead of letting it fall apart.

The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph is North America’s oldest newspaper, and is the main source of English news in Quebec City. The original static website was revamped to allow community submissions of news articles, photos and classifieds. CCK and Views form the basis for the site, while the Ubercart and Premium Content modules allow for subscription-based access to content by assigning the appropriate roles depending on the subscription purchased. The newspaper publisher now administers all parts of the site.

RedBlueAmerica is a news-and-debate website we designed and developed for The E. W. Scripps Company. From the press release:

The site will serve as an ongoing public forum for a full array of user- generated content, including blogs, personal profiles, videos and more. While focusing at the outset on the 2008 election campaigns, RedBlueAmerica intends to provide the public with an open forum for a wide range of cultural and political views long after the votes have been counted….

Diomass.org serves the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, which covers the eastern section of Massachusetts, including the metropolitan Boston area. The diocese is home to approximately 77,000 parishioners in nearly 200 parishes.

Red Room is the online home of many of the world’s greatest writers. Through original, author-generated content, redroom.com offers a trustworthy and creative social network unlike any other. In the Red Room, you can connect with your favorite authors, access current news, and comment on features and blogs. By showcasing writers, redroom.com fosters true community between authors and readers and inspires the next generation.

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 brass|TEACHER RESOURCE CENTER (TRC), part of the brass|STUDENT PROGRAM, is a place for high school teachers to create a community of their own, centered around helping high school students understand the money side of life.

Features of the TRC include:

• brass|MAGAZINE articles
• Downloadable classroom activities to use with brass content
• Student Program blog
• Forums to share ideas, news and support
• Ability to create a profile and participate in an online community of educators
• Student Program news, contests and photos
Development Company: 
brass|MEDIA Inc.

Allindians.com is India’s own social networking portal to connect with fellow indians based in and out of India. The feature requests for developing Allindians.com was huge and required flexibility to connect various sections of the website as and when required.
This made us think about drupal for developing the website and we are happy today after taking our decision. The site now has more than 1000 regular users and the number is increasing everyday.

The main features of this website includes

1. Detailed User profiles
2. Connecting with Friends
3. Member Search

Ourfernie is a community website for the town of fernie based in South Eastern BC. It receives approximately 900 unique visitors a day. In the 2 years since it was launched it has become the most popular site servicing the town of Fernie. It utilises the openresort booking engine to provide it with an income stream and provides a ‘fully’ functional forum which shows just what can be done with the Drupal forums module.