By Brook on
Just wondering if people can post up links to the best/best looking Drupal sites that only use the modules available here at Drupal.org. Custom styles/designs are fine.
I'm interested to see what Drupal can do - as opposed to what Drupal _and_ custom coding can do.
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Continuing from our
Continuing from our discussion in your other thread...
http://www.aguaviva.com
http://www.firehousekidz.com
As mentioned, these are almost completely free of any kind of custom coding, and almost entirely rely on CCK and Views, plus theming. They have other modules, but they are just there for things like Image management, WYSIWYG, some others like Admin Menu, RoleAssign, Pathauto, Global Redirect, Custom Breadcrumbs, Automatic Nodetitles, etc.
I'd say you'd be hard pressed to make a "very" full-featured website with nothing but Drupal core's modules (a great site for sure, but not "fully featured"). I think other than in very limited situations you will need at least a few modules at minimum (image management such as IMCE for instance, possibly an editor like FCKeditor or HTML helper like BUEditor). After that it depends largely on the specific needs of your site (e.g. is it a social networking site and thus need modules to augment social interaction and user management?... a news site, needing modules to facilitate strict content publishing workflows, aggregate content, etc?... video/media site?... etc). If what your site is meant to do is something never done before, then that significantly increases the chance of needing custom coding (though CCK/Views can get you pretty far code-free).
There are a number of modules/features in core that can get you pretty far, paired with good theming though. Taxonomy, Content Types (part of CCK in core), Blog, Forum (which is a solid, simple forum, albeit not the "look" of classic forum software), Actions/Trigger for basic workflow, etc.
However adding just CCK and Views increases the capabilities exponentially (and both are either partially in core already or on a future track for core inclusion... in any case until then they will never fail to be updated with future Drupal releases, as they have become the core of "how you do stuff" in Drupal over the past few years).
-- David
absolutecross.com
[new guide/lesson in progress: Creating a CCK and Views powered Drupal site - feedback welcome]
Using only Core and Modules and Themes available here
I posted this site in the showcase but it merits posting here too because there was no custom coding and very little (at this point) theme editing.
Beach Sales Real Estate (beachsalesrealestate.com)
I really think that if you put the time into learning, testing and practicing Drupal without much (OR ANY) custom coding can do VERY phenomenal things and turn almost any idea for a website into reality.
Non-Core Modules Used:
CCK
Friend
Avatar Blocks (utilizing ImageCache and ImageAPI)
Img
Forward
Lightbox2
Pathauto (utilizing Token)
Captcha (not yet activated)
Tagadelic (used for browsing blocks).
Theme
This is the Roople Theme, Tapestry. (We have obviously more
refining to do on the theme and formatting).
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DON'T Do It This Way.com -
dontdoitthisway.com
Beach Sales Network -
BeachSales.com
Social Networking
This is all done without custom coding: http://socnet.shellmultimedia.com
Michelle
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Gotta ask again
Well, I looked up the above examples with interest but was surprised to see that none were functioning as discussion forums. So now I'm guessing that Forum can have other meanings than people talking to each other like we do here. But that is the kind of Forum I was hoping to see Drupal examples of.
So to take up Brook's good and basic question once again, could anyone list an url that shows us newbies what a Drupal-module Discussion Forum could look like?
This one we're using at drupal.org is possibly an example but unfortunately I don't know if it's based on drupal forum module, forum module + code, or custom php, etc.
Any great examples of Forum module out there? Or not-so-great, even? So-so? Downright crummy? Examples of any kind??
Let's see what we can find, Brook! :)
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Drupal.org uses the core forum.module
Michelle's site uses the core forum.module and the advanced forum.module shes written and maintains.
and where Google is concerned: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=best+drupal+forums&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10
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I'm sure Michelle probably has more references, but I've bookmarked:
http://www.webmaster-forums.net
http://gallery.menalto.com/forum
http://www.daughtryofficial.com/us/forum (or just about any of the sony artist sites i think)
Forum
If you're looking for forums, here's mine. :) http://couleeregiononline.com/forum
Michelle
Forum examples
Perhaps Michelle may answer with some top examples of Advanced Forum module in action (which is a module which enhances the core forum module to make it more like standard forum software, both in its theming/looks, various custom features, plus automatic integration with a variety of forum-centric modules).
Here are a few nice core Drupal forums (unlikely much/any custom coding beyond theming):
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/forum
http://www.typophile.com/forum
http://labs.divx.com/forum
http://www.webmaster-forums.net
http://www.justaskbaby.com/forum
http://gallery.menalto.com/forum
http://www.ubercart.org/forum
Are most of them "phpBB-like", no not necessarily... though as a designer I'd take that as a compliment :D Your average forum out there is a mess of superfluous options and unnecessary data that gets in the way of the actual "communication" purpose of a discussion forum.
Here's a few screenshots of the custom-themed core forum I am currently working on: Forum topic page 1, Forum topic page 2, Forum topic edit, Main forum page (this shot's a bit outdated). This does use a number of add-on modules (particularly Flag module, which is incredibly useful).
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That divx one looks like an old version of AF. I don't really have a list, yet. Folks have emailed me but I haven't put a list together. I should do that sometime. :)
Michelle
Thanks everyone - this was
Thanks everyone - this was helpful, as we are now trying to see what we can do with the forum module so needed some examples to guide us.