Thanks to Drupal 6.3 I was able to whip together bantler.com in a little less than a week. (100 hours development during seven rainy Seattle days).
The site brings popular "deal of the day" sites such as Woot, Steep and Cheap, and Amazon goldbox into one unified interface, allowing you to keep up to date on the sites you like while easily filtering out the ones you don't.
The goal was to make the site as easy to use as possible, so there's no need to register to save your preferences...thanks to jQuery and Cookies your personal settings are persistent between visits.
Contributed Modules used: CCK, Currency Exchange, ImageAPI, and ImageCache.
One custom module handles the site aggregation/display along with the related jQuery behaviors.
jQuery plugins used: jQuery Cookie, jQuery Live Query.
Theme is custom based on zen.
This was my first attempt at a Drupal 6 site and I can say that without a doubt, I'm sticking with 6 for any project I do from this point on. While there was a bit extra effort needed initially (i.e. porting Currency Exchange to 6.x), the new features in 6 are just too nice to pass up.
Hope you enjoy it,
Scott Falconer
bantler.com
Comments
Well done!
Well done!