Video centric website

Posted by Antony29 on October 28, 2012 at 4:07pm

Hi everyone.
Generally, I'm new to the whole CMS thing. I've been exploring Drupal/Wordpress/Joomla for the last couple weeks. But still can't get my head around what exactly I need to get my project done.

I need to create a simple video centric website (all videos will be hosted on YouTube), something like this, but less complicated. Without any categories (the whole site will be about one category). Just a front page with some kind of a slider (like in the example I gave) and latest videos, another page to browse all videos available on the website, and maybe another page for video submission. The features I want the site to have:
- video rating system
- sidebar which will display top rated videos
- search
- facebook/twitter buttons
That's it. Is this easy to do with Drupal? I know Drupal is a little bit more complicated than Wordpress/Joomla, but I'm willing to learn. Plus it's possible that I'll want to enhance my website in the future. All I need is a little guidance of where to start. I've been searching for templates but couldn't find anything suitable. Maybe I could start with a standart template and just use the extentions for everything? Please suggest what things (extentions, templates) I'll need to create this kind of website.
I've been trying to do it all with Wordpress for last 3 days by editing the theme I just mentioned, but I ended up having a lot of problems.

Thanks.

Comments

Templates/themes are for

Posted by nevets on October 28, 2012 at 4:24pm

Templates/themes are for controlling the look of the site, not the functionality.

Central to what you want is a content type that can handle you tube videos, http://drupal.org/project/modules/youtube?f[0]=im_vid_3%3A20224&f[1]=drupal_core%3A103&f[2]=bs_project_sandbox%3A0 lists modules that provide fields (or in some cases format fields) that handle you tube.

There are a number of modules that provide ratings, rate straightforward to use and fairly simple to customize if needed.

You can use the views module to list the videos in a variety of ways.

The are also a number of modules that provide social buttons.

And core includes a basic search module.

Thanks for the reply. Can you

Posted by Antony29 on October 29, 2012 at 10:42pm

Thanks for the reply.
Can you please suggest how to make videos appear in the front page like here? Can it be done with Views module? I'm trying to do it with views but can't figure it out.
And also, is there a module which can help me make a automatic slider like in that theme?

Yes one for the slideshow (I

Posted by nevets on October 29, 2012 at 10:54pm

Yes one for the slideshow (I would use views slideshow) and one for the listing below.