New Drupal site: Carnival of the Liberals

Posted by tng@neuralgourm... on November 25, 2005 at 9:29pm

Nothing pretty here. We're just using the base Kubrick theme, but looks were not the most important element to us initially.

When I needed to get a website off the ground quickly for organizational site of the new blog carnival Carnival of the Liberals, choosing Druapl was a natural. While many have complained about Drupal's lack of an installer I've found that once you've installed a couple Drupal sites it takes less than 10 minutes to go from zero to a complete and working site. Add in another 10-30 minutes to install the modules and themes necessary and it's possible to have a full featured website in under an hour.

Drupal's quick and easy setup means that you can concentrate on the important tasks of organizing and developing content rather than marking-up XHTML.

I should also mention, if any of you are into blogging from a liberal perspective, Carnival of the Liberals is open for submissions for CotL 1. Stop on by and submit your best blog post from within the past couple of weeks.

Comments

well said

Posted by silverwing on November 25, 2005 at 11:31pm

Just a couple of the "If I were you" suggestions...

I'd go into admin and remove the submitted/date for your pages. (about, volunteer, etc.) Just to tidy it up.

Nice logo, btw.

You haven't jumped on the "progressive" bandwagon? (I thought about this when I read your "thinking liberally" slogan in your header. Thinking Progressivey sounds good too.)

silverwing

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Thanks!

Posted by tng@neuralgourm... on November 26, 2005 at 4:17am

Thanks for the compliment on the logo. I threw that together this afternoon sometime after I posted here at Drupal. Used a piece of "found" art on the web and did the rest myself in Photoshop.

Hah! I actually do usually refer to myself as 'progressive' but lately I've become a little frightened at the adulteration of that word. Besides, I really think it's time we take back the word 'liberal'. It's been so demonized by the Republican party that it's lost all of its' original meaning. In fact, I daresay that there are many on the left who call themselves 'progressive' who do not really understand liberalism as a political philosophy.

Oh, good point on turning off the submitted/date lines. It's not necessary. I'll go do that.

BTW: I should note that at the time I'm typing this we've had 71 referrals from Drupal.org so far. One of these days I'll have to actually announce my other site here.

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