By kalashari on

Hello,

For some time now, I wanted to create a website with some useful information about travel and travel-related stuff. I could have created this website "manually", but using Drupal it was so much easier to accomplish this.

The website is http://www.iwant2visit.net . There's no user registration and stuff like that. Website is just for "consuming".

Nothing fancy really, just plain and simple stuff. Most of the photos on the website are all mine, at least in gallery I did put photos from places I have been to. btw for the gallery I had to do some manual custom php+mysql coding inside templates, but nothing difficult.

Hope you find some information on the website useful :)

Cheers,

k.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

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themegarden.org commented

Interesting site, but somehow cold design. You could try to change background color of your slogan ( I Want 2 Visit.Net) to some another color (? orange)

Question:
who can submit materials to your site? Is it community driven?
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kalashari commented

Well, for now, I submitted all the articles and photos myself. You know, I was just thinking about letting other people register and submit their own travel guides as well. Of course that would require that articles they submit pass certain quality control by admin, but that should not be a problem. I think I'm gonna try with "users-can-submit-articles" option, thanks for an idea.

As for the design, I like this simple "noprob" theme. I'll experiemnt a little more with backcolor you suggested.

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http://www.iwant2visit.net/ - What's your next travel destination? Get informed before you go.

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eli03 commented

I also like to add a gallery on my travel site, what module are you currently using?

thanks,
eli
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kalashari commented

No specific module for photo gallery. I used Image module for uploading image nodes. I created content type "Album", assigned CCK nodereference field to 'Image' content type. It references a view which lists all the nodes of type 'album'.

Then when you view album 'Amsterdam photos', I do a little DB retrieval:

"list me all image node types for which the value of CCK field 'field_album' is 'Amsterdam photos'"

It's a workaround, but it works for a simple gallery.

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http://www.iwant2visit.net/ - What's your next travel destination? Get informed before you go.

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kalashari commented

Hi,

I wrote a tutorial on how to make a photo gallery with thumbnails just like on that website.... and it's a new blog that I just started about learning Drupal and making Drupal websites:

http://www.learndrupalcms.com/how-make-photo-gallery-thumbnails-drupal

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tonyce commented

What template did you use to build the site from (to customize as you mentioned) or is it a ground up template?

Also I see it is a fixed width design. Are you using the same theme for you admin section? If so what have you done to stop the wide middle sections of the admin areas (eg the theme section) from intruding into your third column or pushing outside of the fixed width of the header?

Regards.

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kalashari commented

It's a theme called "noprob".... I haven't made any modifications to it, I just added that header as a logo, and that's about it. The admin section works fine, too.

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JayNL commented

... and blistering fast loading for me! Is your website hosted in The Netherlands? Where ever its hosted, its fast!

I must agree with the 'cold' design comment above, it could use some colours to warm it up a bit.

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calebm12 commented

Have you considered keeping control over the locations....but allowing visitors to add "things to do/see" to each location. As well as add pics. As a traveler i would get more out of the site if i could read peoples thoughts on things to do in a location. The content they submit could also have things like cost for the site, and getting there tips, etc. Just my 2 cents.

You could also have them submit on approval new locations....

I would find the site more useful if i could participate in it....as well as gather first hand accounts.