The six radio stations of the Anchorage Media Group in Alaska (US), a division of Morris Communications relaunched today. The sites all run on Drupal 5.1.
Previously, Morris has launched SavannahNow.com and BlufftonToday.com on the Drupal platform. These new sites are our first radio sites and our first public launches on Drupal 5.
The sites use CCK, Views, Audio, Event, Mass Contact, Login Destination, Automatic Nodetitles and some custom modules that we wrote to support the radio group. Big praise to the folks who did the real work getting these sites launched.
* http://kwhl.com/
* http://kfqd.com/
* http://kmxs.com/
* http://khar590.com/
* http://kbrj.com/
* http://kool973.com/
* http://bobandmark.com/
Note: The Spotted photo gallery is a product of Morris DigitalWorks, my employer and the digital arm of Morris.
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Nice job. Those sites are
Nice job.
Those sites are quite similar (all of them are really good).
One notice:
all sites are sometimes really slow (I have broadband connection, and front page loads for up to 10 s)
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Tuning
The designs are meant to be similar: its a "family" of sites. (It's also a template for our myriad of other radio sites.)
Is it the front page or internal pages that are slow?
I think the slowness is simply a webserver tuning issue (it is launch day, after all). There may be some network lag from YouTube, but I don't think that would stop the page from rendering.
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Yes, front pages are mostly
Yes, front pages are mostly slower than other pages.
It is possible that content from other sites (like YouTube) creates some lag, but ...
Good optimised and tuned webserver (database too) is always desired.
There are some interesting articles about that. Take look (for example) at page http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/03/speed_drupal_web_site_enablin... ("Speed up a Drupal web site by enabling MySQL query caching").
Also, take look at http://2bits.com/articles/drupal-performance-tuning-and-optimization-for... where you can find a couple of links for "Drupal Performance Tuning and Optimization for large web sites".
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loading delay
Takes about 5 seconds before anything shows up. It's not terrible, but could be a lot quicker.
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Lag
That lag is likely caused by external ad-serving and user-tracking JavaScript.
FireFox's request times tells me that first response from the server is less than 0.6 seconds. But loading and rendering the JS and the YouTube files causes some latency.
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looks nice.
could be abit modern but its fast loading for me
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Carousel and On Air
Nice design on all the sites. I noted a couple sites KFQD and KHAR950, that use a rotation/slide show of station info on the main page (the carousel)? What module is this? Also, how did you set up the green On Air button for the programs? I noted the sites run on Drupal 5.1, so are these modules available in Drupal 6.x? Thanks in advance for your help.
impessive!
you didnt use the station mod? why did you keep them in drupal 5?