By davidrf on

We're using Drupal for our new community site, share.triangle.com. The site relies heavily on the Views module and features a custom registration and login in module so that registered users of the parent site, newsobserver.com, can use the same ID and password on the Drupal site.

We plan many future enhancements and are continuing to stomp out the bugs, so your feedback is welcome.

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uNeedStuff’s picture

uNeedStuff commented

Great site! I wish people who posted here list all the modules & themes they were using.. would give us noobies a place to start building if we found something we wanted to use as a starting point...

Shari

davidrf’s picture

davidrf commented

Thanks! The site is built on 4.7. In addition to the default Drupal modules:

actions
basicevent
blogapi
buddylist
buddylistinvite
content
commentrss
event
event_views
eventrepeat
favorite_nodes
filemanager
forward
image
jrating
nodequeue
nodereference
number
og
og2list
og_basic
og_block_visibility
og_calendar
og_moderate
optionwidgets
panels
poormanscron
prepopulate
service_links
statistics
text
tinymce
troll
userpoints
userreference
views
views_bonus
views_rss
views_theme_wizard
views_ui
webform
wordfilter

We've also custom built a couple of modules that communicate with pre-existing proprietary databases (such as the user database from our parent site).

The theme is largely custom built -- with the right combination of blocks, views, panels and stylesheets, anything is possible.

uNeedStuff’s picture

uNeedStuff commented

Thanks! that is very helpful :o)

jamestflynn’s picture

jamestflynn commented

This may sound like a real newb question. But on the home page the tabbed menus that read "most recent", "most viewed", and "highest rated". How is that accomplished?

Great site by the way.

hanimaus’s picture

hanimaus commented

Whre I can get commentrss? PLZ help!
www.annkathrinkramer.de

InterceptPoint’s picture

InterceptPoint commented

In a nutshell, how did you build your front page photo viewer? It is very slick.

davidrf’s picture

davidrf commented

Thanks. The photo viewer was built in Flash. It gets its data from an xml file, so we don't need to touch Flash to update it. At the moment, we're manually editing the xml file with an "editor's choice" photo. Soon it will automatically pull from a custom RSS feed populated by any photo we've selected to "promote to front". To the right of the photo viewer is a 2x3 grid of the newest photos in the system, which is accomplished through a custom block made using the Views module. This particular page is built using the Panels module -- the Flash photo viewer is dropped in as a custom block for that zone of the panel. It works as a code hole.

newdru’s picture

newdru commented

regarding the 2x3 grid. i understand how to make a custom block with views but....

1) how did you make the 3 separate views appear as tabs in the same block (e.g. normally i would assign one view to a block - so how do you get multliple views not only in one block but tabbed to boot?

2) did you need views args to achieve this - if so how did you use it in this instance?

3) i'm assuming you used the same views/tab technique for the other two tabbed sections ("this just in" and "things to do") on the front page. or at least i think you used it on "this just in". is that right? the "things to do" tabbed section looks a little more complex though. was that hand coded, views or a little of both?

really nice job!
thank for any input you can provide

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discursives commented

i would also like to know how this is accomplished. dynamicload is supposed to do such things, but i dont know how to set a panel as a destination for the loading of content, and then further a panel within a tab! there must be a simpler way is what my intuition tells me. there's another great example at newamerica.net that has the same thing. its tabs...its dynamicload/panels .... its views...how do they fit together!?

I have posted a more explicit request at the DOJO - http://groups.drupal.org/node/2981

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mudanoman commented

Great site David!

Thanks for sharing the modules used.

Just curious, what machines are running the site and have you run into any scalability issues?

Cheers,

Ivan

John98’s picture

John98 commented

We're using Drupal for our new community site, NFshare.triangle.com. The site relies heavily on the Views module and features a custom registration and login in module so that registered users of the parent site, NFnewsobserver.com, can use the same ID and password on the Drupal site. . . .

Steven_NC’s picture

Steven_NC commented

For those not familiar with the News & Observer. The N&O embraced electronic publishing on the web from the very early days and has had one of the most user friendly online newspapers for years. I am sure that choosing Drupal for any of their work was done with a lot of care. It would be nice if they put one of their reporters on a story about the entire process. Then all the blogger folks could quote the daylights out of the article.

Very good site BTW. I'm a regular subscriber not an employee.

Bencoon’s picture

Bencoon commented

The user profile is almost exactly what I'm trying to accomplish with the site I'm working on. Was that accomplished with custom code, or were you able to do the with pre-existing modules? And if so, would you be willing to share which ones were involved?

robmypro’s picture

robmypro commented

Slick. Like it!

sankar_jeya’s picture

sankar_jeya commented

Nice customization... how come tab pannel is custimized .. plz will u help me on this