By jmanico on

Hey there, my name is Jim Manico and I've been coding the www.OpenArchitectureNetwork.org with SUN and Codemagi for the last many months in Druapal 4.7 as part of the TED prize. I sang Drupal's praises in the SUN innovation podcast at http://wcdata.sun.com/webcast/download/podcast/innovating_at_sun/IAS_016...

Love that Drupal, what a fantastic CMS!

- Jim

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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mango commented

Hi Jim,

The website looks fantastic! Never knew that this were possible with Drupal 4.7...

Doing marketing for a foundation myself, I am pleased to see Drupal being used in this realm. As happy as I am being on the verge of launching our new straightforward Drupal-based website, I appreciate how proud you must be to have delivered such a great site, both visually, as content-wise!

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newdru commented

Great!.. And an organization doing good things to boot!

I was wondering a couple things about the site if you might be so kind:

1) First off the site looks very ajaxified. Great job! Is that custom stuff you did or did you leverage any drupal modules to do that? From the looks of it you handcrafted most of what you wanted and just inserted it where you needed it.

2) Is the projects page sidebar 'filter criteria section' based on views with args or some other method?

3) Is the main content area of the projects page (the image grid) done with views or some other method?

FYI, Possible Bug: when you rollover a project img in the main section of the project page, sometimes the popup has an embedded vertical scroll bar because there's too much information for the fixed size popup. however, once you rolloff the main img, the popup dissappears so you can never:

a) click any links that might exist in the popup (regardless of scroll bar or not)
b) use the scroll bar to see any of the hidden info.

Not sure you can do anything about that but just thought i'd bring it too your attention. A possible remedy is to make any stuff that's clickable (any href) simple text in the popup (since you're not allowed to click it - this will prevent sending cues to users that might want to). And you might just want to make the popup resizable instead of fixed to eliminate the need for a scrollbar.

4) It looks like your project node is custom. Each node page consists of mutliple tabs with different callbacks to display different information for each tab. Is that correct?

If so, is all that content info for each node contained in one db?

If not, how did you do that?

thanks for any insights..
great job