so i came across om malik's new web site for open source software - www.ostatic.com - and yes, it is built on drupal:
http://changingway.org/2008/03/04/ostatic-gigaom-on-open-source/
...but in a strange fit of irony, it's about open source, uses open source, but does not appear to have interest in giving back to open source by talking to the drupal community about 'how it was done' - fastcompany.com did this, as did teamsugar.com and many other bigger outfits...
so yeah, now what i'm trying to do is figure out if 'we as a community' can actually figure out how it was done - then i'm gonna ping om and his team and see if they'll confirm or elaborate...
take a look at the site, poke around, then post thoughts here regarding whatever you think they're doing behind the theme - to me it looks like:
views (for myriad pages)
search as url (an interesting way to display page results, but how is it generating so quickly if it's a real time query?)
faq and faq ask modules for experts question routing via 'ask' buttons (possibly - though perhaps content type with custom teaser and views for presentation on the generated nodes?)
many node modules (for software directory piece)
cck (for assorted fields)
..but what else?
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view the source luke.
1) I notice they are using the B7 theme, though It's customized.
2) They've embeded mootools javascript library
3) They've got some of their own js magic going on as well
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Other than the search, it
Other than the search, it seems pretty standard stuff... albeit nicely themed. Some drupal sights I've seen and think... "wow how did they do that" but not this one.
i guess i'm confused by search and questions display...
i'm not as fluent in drupal as you and many others likely are, so i'm a bit confused by the searchtags path displayed in the majority of content navigation - is that a custom module of some kind? a simple set of hard coded menu aliases? and the member questions - is that actually a faq module tweak, or are they simply manipulating the display of standard nodes in a custom content type like 'questions'?
I'm totally guessing here,
I'm totally guessing here, but to me it looks like "searchtag" is nothing more than a very intricate multilevel taxonomy vocabulary. It also appears that they're using some sort of facet module....perhaps a combination of the faceted search and cck facets modules. I've not tried those modules so I'm not sure if they supplant a multilevel vocabulary or compliment it. Also, the search might be custom or related to those modules. Definitely adding facets to my list of things to try out in my dev env.
I'm not sure about the FAQ section... I use the faq module and this doesn't look anything like that. Perhaps it's the question module (which I've not used) or just a custom content type.I could see doing this with a question content type, an answer content type, and a node relationship module to connect 1 question to multiple answers. Actually, the more I look at it, it almost looks like the "question" is the node and the "answers" are just comments. Interesting approach.
sorry, I'm not being very helpful... maybe a real drupal ninja will chirp up...
funny - was thinking same thing about q&a just using nodes..
so yeah, just last night i was looking it over again and began to think that the questions are just titles of nodes and perhaps using contemplate or something to show 'just titles' in summary view pages - and answers are simply comments with a custom theming element...
i'm actually going to try to do something similar so i'll keep you posted on my progress - and that faceted search interface is great for navigation!