By scottm316 on

GEOBLASTER USA (geoblasterusa.com) is a website built for the American company in the GEOBLASTER family of websites. The Canadian website, gogeoblast.com is also built on Drupal 7.

The GEOBLASTER executives have been educated to the powerful abilities of Drupal, and appreciate the self-managability and expansion capabilities of Drupal. It took time, but now they are comfortable using their customized software; saving, updating and managing their own data, images, videos, and news. They are able to publish the information they want on their own website on their own schedule, using an interface as easy as Facebook. They are not web developers.

The theme was designed by Doug at Poolside Media. Scott eSolutions (scottm316) built the website, and configured the modules. Scott eSolutions turned the design into a Drupal theme using the Zen Starterkit. It only took scottm316 2 months to build the website, as it doesn't provide too much extra functionality - it is simply a showcase for the GEOBLASTER product. 1 designer, 1 developer.

Only very common modules are used in the website (so far). The GEOBLASTER executives understand they can add to their website features such as e-commerce, forums, commmenting, and more as time goes on. But immediately, this website was built to establish an online presence in the USA. Contrib modules include:
- Views / Ctools
- Global Redirect
- Pathauto
- Meta tag field
- Google Analytics
- Libraries / Wysiwyg
- XML Sitemap

So visit! Wet abrasive blasting using the GEOBLASTER will eventually make sandblasting obsolete. Not unlike how using Drupal makes custom PHP CMS's built from scratch obsolete!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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tacoparty commented

Nice looking site. I am actually looking to do something similar with the thumbnails along the bottom that open into a Lightbox. Can you briefly explain which modules you used to create that? I assume Views and maybe Lightbox or Colorbox but curious how the content type is structured (what/how many fields you're using for the display) and if any of the View extension modules are being used. I would appreciate any info you can give me.

Thanks!

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scottm316 commented

It isn't a content type actually it's the aggregator module that pulls in the youtube videos and a view of aggregator items. I made a views template (views-view-field--aggregatorview--description.tpl.php or along those lines) to control the display *per item* how I want. I followed the colorbox instructions and put a colorbox link in the template. An empty img tag in the template gets populated with the views row info such as image source, the title, alt text etc. The template is just basically

<a class="colorbox-load" href="<?php print $row->aggregator_source_link ?>"><img src="<?php print $row->aggregator_thumb_source ?>" width="135" height="75" alt="<?php print $row->title; ?>" /><br /><span class="myclass">$row->title</span></a>

Same idea would apply if it were a content view.

Originally I had even been pulling one of three thumbnails from youtube's img servers which create 3 thumbnails for every video on youtube. If you have the 11 character watch code, (ie. youtube.com/watch?v=12345678901) you can pull thumbnails but I had to change that since they don't have play buttons or play lengths specified in the thumbs which is what they wanted.

Scott
http://morrisonmultimedia.ca/
Edmonton, AB