By Ceb on

I thought I had already posted this some time back, but couldn't find it in a search so I apologize if it is listed twice.

I've been working some time on knowyourisland.ca meant to be a community networking site for Vancouver Island towns and communities. I have played around with a few themes, but am right now working with a zen basic theme; it's nice, it's clean. Maybe I'll tweak it a little bit down the road. The main showcase of the website right now is function and features. It currently offers:

  • Forums
  • Classifieds
  • Events Calendar
  • User messaging
  • Photo Gallery
  • Chat
  • User contributed one page business / attraction listings with the ability to rate user posted attractions.
  • Youtube integration into user posts
  • Social Bookmarking
  • A 'to do' list, for users to flag events and attractions of interest. A personal bookmarking.
  • Simple flash based map navigation
  • Regional weather and news

This has been a side project which I have been working on for probably about 4 months here and there. The list of installed modules is, well.. extensive to say the least.

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michelle
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Location Wisconsin, USA
commented

Looks like you're off to a good start and the Zen Basic theme is clean and uncluttered. I know what you mean about an extensive list of modules. It's pretty crazy how many modules you need to make a social networking site in Drupal. LOL

Michelle

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Ceb commented

It's been a fun learning experience though, and it seems like the job is just never done because it keeps getting better.

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michelle
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Location Wisconsin, USA
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Never ever done. Two years in and I'm still far from done. LOL

Very fun, though. :)

Michelle

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socialtalker commented

what did you use for classifieds and todo list.

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Ceb commented

Classifieds was done with the Classified Ads (ed-classified) module, naturally categories set up with regular category taxonomies. The page is output with views & Panels. And the bar on the right with all the directories is a custom bit of php which just lists the titles with links and queries a count on terms which match the according taxonomy.

Example:
<a href="http://www.knowyourisland.ca/?q=classifieds&amp;filter0=**ALL**&amp;filter1=38">Automotive (<?php
$count = taxonomy_term_count_nodes(38, ed_classified);print $count; ?>)</a>

My 'to do list' was put together using the Flag module and simple user permissions.

As for the Nav map. That's revision 1. At some point, I think I'm going to make it zoom in on the regions so that you can then click on the town you would like to see.