Studentnet

http://studentnet.londongt.org

londongt.org has been making a lot of Drupal sites over the past year now, but studentnet is the most complex that we've had to make. Studenet is a network for pupils in the UK using some of the normal drupal features such as discussion boards and polls along with video and photo content via Flickr and youTube (see the Create & Share and Tech tips pages for an example of this in action).

Most of the pages use the views module to pull in multiple nodes.

We used the feedparser module for the news aggregation on the buzz pages, using tags to define the different news types and Taxonomy images to displays the feed sources logo. A similar situation was done for pulling in the flickr images and you tube videos and using a slightly modified version of this Javascript for the 'Play video' buttons which you can see in action on the Tech tips page.

Lots of credit goes to the guys behind footy 24/7 and the comments on the page who helped me along the way with working out what's possible with the feedparser module.

Some of the other features and designs are behind the 'walled garden' and unfortunately I can't post any pictures to show you either.