Chicken Stone – where you write about your passion, music that is. A social music revolution built upon dedicated music fans for more music fans. Our goal: make you laugh, scared, addicted, give you chills, make you have a warm feeling around your heart area, make you cry, make you feel special. We want to give you the ultimate experience in music when your reading, listening or viewing all of our daily posted media content or highly-trained professional ninja blogs.

We have built Chicken Stone off of a brand new Drupal 5 version. I had some experience with Drupal before starting this project so this site was rather easy to build, took me about 3 weeks...

Give me your thoughts, opinions or suggestions.

Regards,

Charles
ChickenStone.com - For the hardcores.

Comments

bsuttis’s picture

Props, it looks great.

I really like the profile feature 'Music I Listen To' and that its bands link to a page where users who like said band are grouped. Care to explain how you achieved this?

jeforma’s picture

It was rather easy... I just created a Multiple List Text Field, then I added the code in the user-profile.tpl.php to make it searchable. I don,t remember which page on drupal.org but I found it here.

Charles

ChickenStone.com - For the hardcores.

bsuttis’s picture

You didn't use any modules for this functionality though? Looks like you used profileplus (http://drupal.org/node/55469), as I haven't had any luck locating the thread you mentioned you found.

jeforma’s picture

I did not use Profileplus, hmm, it might be something like this, but I seriously can't seem to remember...

http://drupal.org/node/35740

bsuttis’s picture

My bad, looks like this is part of the core profile module. If you create a freeform field, there's an option about making the entries searchable/sortable.

I guess the multiline text field was what threw me off.

JohnForsythe’s picture

Good color scheme, it's basic, but it works. The front page does a good job of pushing your content. The only thing I would change is the animated logo with sound, it's kind of annoying that it auto-plays every time you hit the main page. The tiled text background is also a bit distracting, maybe try it with light gray text instead, to help separate it from the real text.

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jeforma’s picture

Thanks. I am thinking of changing the front_page animation rather soon actually, and the background was for a test. I need to try some other stuff out before changing it once more.

Thanks for the feedback.

fender-dupe’s picture

I like the design, yes the sound of the chicken is annoying but overall very good looking,

the only thing is bothering me that the info is all over the site, it is not organized, and i get confused

clkeenan’s picture

The I love the look of the site, but at the same time it isnt very organized and one post just blurs into the next one which makes it hard to read

that1guy’s picture

I love it, but the blog seems to have content all over, not clear like with popsugar.com

How did you do the invite thing?

jeforma’s picture

The invite thing is actually a module here on drupal.org

http://drupal.org/project/invite

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jeforma’s picture

Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean by one post blurs into one another...

I'm assuming your talking about this page: http://www.chickenstone.com/blog? If so, how could I improve the separation of blogs? :)

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