Drupal help us cutting cost and successfully build a Knowledge Sharing website!

Our team firstly used Drupal six months before, now we all feel so lucky for our selection!

The idea of http://iclew.org comes from the common requirement:

Everyday, there are many new questions posted to internate but few of them will be answered, because the persons who know the answer may not browse this question

Then, we analysis some famous QA websites and think all of them didnot resolve above problem, why not build a website with a totally new modal?

• We build a simple Knowledge Sharing website contain basic functions such as: ask question, answer, reply, send notification etc
• Provide a PC client to collect the user's browse behavior for Internat, then automatically push the question matched with this user to him

Before we start to build http://iclew.org with Drupal, we try to outsource whole website and PC client software to some software companies, we invest time, money and human resource, but had to give up eventually because what they give is not we want.

Occassionally, we found Drupal can realize what we want: we just need a QA website, as simple as possible.

The progress goes fast and smoothly which make us surprised, here are how we did it:

• Installed Drupal 6 on Linux server
• Install a couple of common modules such as notification, message, XML site map etc
• Wrote some lines of codes to change the text 'comment' to 'answer', because the user will 'answer' to a 'question'

After fully test and fix some bugs, http://iclew.org is totally meet our requirement. refer to the big lost in previous outsource experience, we thanks the Drupal community contribute so perfect product to us.

As we thought, every internat user will meet question and want to get answer in internat, especially the programmer, did you have the experience that almost feel desperate for some technical problems and post it to forum, you will feel so appericiate if anyone kindly answer you or even give any clues.

We believe http://iclew.org can help the question find the suitable answers, here invite you try to use iClew by yourself. We will appreciate it greatly if you share your knowledge in iClew!

Here are the steps using iClew!

• Download iClew 1.0 from default page of iclew.org
• Close Firefox and IE, then Install in local
• Start Firefox or IE
• When there is questions matched with you, you will view it in iClew!

Thank you!