By green monkey on

I'd like to make a suggestion, that has some free marketing benefits.

This Forum has served its purpose fairly well, but I believe we can do better and offer more. I think this would also allow us to also gather marketing penetration and profile data.

The Drupal Website Showcase should grow up and be a CCK Node, with several Vocabs and Terms. The Forum is ok, but we're a CMS house - why not use our own tools to present our user bases and victories.

I'm going to make a few suggestions, but this should probably go to the round table and be hammered out -- in regards to fields, vocabs and terms. It might even be beneficial to lean it towards a Case Study feeling -- if possible.

Suggested layout.

  • Website Name (Text)
  • Website URL (Link)
  • Industry Type (Vocab)
  • Profit or Non-Profit (Select list)
  • Server Type -- shared, virtual, dedicated (Vocab)....
  • Date Opened for business or Converted (date)
  • Drupal Version # (vocab)
  • e-Commerce (Yes/No)
  • e-Commerce System used -- Drupal - 3rd party (Vocab)
  • Number of people on the project (numeric)
  • Previous Structure: Flat HTML, Another CMS ... and so on. - (Vocab)
  • Reasons for picking Drupal (text area)
  • Challenges encountered (text area)
  • Number of 3rd party modules used (number)
  • Custom modifications (text area)
  • Final outcome comments (text area)

Well, those are some of my thoughts. I'm sure I forgot some, and maybe some of them are not that important.

I would not allow Ratings, but would allow Comments.

a one year follow up - would be interesting as well - but that is really pushing hopes