Drupalcon Boston 2008 - culture

Vintage Faith Church

gman — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:19:13 +0000

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.

This church needed a website that they could updated more easily than flat HTML files through Dreamweaver, and one that would use an in house designer, with custom art an photography donated by the community. They also have a Drupal developer willing to theme and implement the entire site.

As you can see from the screenshots, we wanted to avoid the typical boxy feel of websites, but still make it highly usable for members and guests. The fly out menu provided by Nice Menus helps with the usability. The theme backgrounds shift as you navigate the site providing a consistent, yet distinct feel to each section of the site.

Besides the theming, there is no custom code on the site. GMap was used to a group locator, CCK and Views of course to create and display different announements, events and group content types. Audio was used to let different musical artists upload some of the custom creations. In hindsight I may have used on of the other Media CCK field formats (like mediafield), but no a big deal. Core Aggregator is used to combine many of the pastor’s blogs together and flickr is a great tool to embed our photographer’s image captures of gatherings, events, and shelter work.

We also used wymeditor, with IMCE, and a couple Panels (version 1) to round things out.

LUX

gaele — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:45:13 +0000

LUX is a cultural centre in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, offering a wide variety of events ranging from international cinema, theatre and debate to dance and music.

In renewing their website LUX wanted to

enable LUX employees to easily enter event data, including dates, times, posters and trailers
enable visitors to easily find out what is going on
offer an opportunity for interaction and community building

The site makes heavy use of CCK, Views and a custom built playdates module, offering various ways of viewing the programme.

Movies offer integration with blip.tv trailers and a ticket reservation system.

The site has a strong visual presence, with a theme varying slightly by event type.

The development of this site was a combined effort of Bèr Kessels, Jeroen Coumans and Gaele Strootman.

The Rake Magazine

dgorton — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:19:54 +0000

The Rake is an arts and culture magazine based in Minneapolis/St. Paul and is known for its storytelling, humor, style, and personality. Their new Drupal site has brought them great flexibility and ease-of-management, as well as improved traffic and host of other benefits.
You can read more about the website at drupal.org’s Rake Magazine case study.