By noslokire on

http://dorksandcorks.com

My first (and longest) solo project to date, Dorks and Corks has gone through 3 makeovers, 4 conceptual re-designs and more do-overs that any Drupal-ite should ever have to deal with. It has been a long time coming, but I settled on its final purpose to be an online wine cellaring site which will soon Dorks and Corks got through Private Alpha and finally came out in Public Beta this past week and so far, only a few minor issues (knock on wood!). Phase 2 of the site will be the ability to add bottles/images via mobile phone for faster cataloging of wines.

The site is built on Drupal 6 using a custom install profile. The main modules behind this engine are:

- CCK/Views
- Workflow
- Fivestar

The fun ones that add a little something extra are:

- Cumulus
- ThemeAPI
- Content Profile
(and if you sign up and add a bottle, a pretty display of Taxonomy Images and Views)

Signup, enjoy, celebrate with a bottle of vino!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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noslokire’s picture

noslokire commented

Please drink responsibly!

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jbizzay commented

Woohoo now I can get my cork on! I'm more of a beer guy, but I do like a good glass of red wine.

The site looks nice and fresh. Keep it up. And I take back what I said earlier, Cumulus looks pretty sweet on there.

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Drupalized commented

nice site, congratulations. i think i want some wine : )

manderine’s picture

manderine commented

I think its the image!

socialtalker’s picture

socialtalker commented

wonderful elegant design, love the colors.

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noslokire commented

... were meant to be close to the grapes themselves, other than the orange for accenting.

Thanks!

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aaronelborg commented

Any plans to include port?

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noslokire commented

Or port as in porting to the next Drupal version? Port I grouped with dessert wines, should probably be called after dinner wine.

As for porting to D7, there aren't a whole lot of reasons to think about that just yet but I've been trying to stick to as solid modules as I can.

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bonnie_c commented

funny!

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noslokire commented

I appreciate everyone's feedback on the site, I put quite a bit of it into practice so it should be looking, functioning, and Drupalitizing at a higher level now.

Yes, drupalitizing!

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RichieRich commented

Nice site there. I particularly liked the appropriate choice of colours and the general simplicity of the layout. It's the kind of site which you could happily return to over an over again. I'm going to forward it to one of my friends who is crazy about wine (it's consumed much of his money over the last few years).

I guess the difficulty is going to be building a large enough user base. There are lots of wine sites out there after all.

I notice that you've integrated adsense into the site. I've also started a new site and I'm considering implementing it too. I was wondering if you're seeing a returns from it yet. I'm not asking for figures, but it would be nice to know if it's been worth the effort.

Thanks,

Richard

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manderine commented

So I love wine and signed up, but I was wondering how you did the cellars? I added a bottle and its really beautiful, but is that a view that is building the cellar as I add a bottle?

Really nice site, thanks!

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qazi1 commented

Hi,

What kind of red wine is used for the snack having during the communion??

Hunter Valley accommodation

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noslokire commented

The question should be how many red wines! That also explains the lengthy 4 month revamp process!

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sahuni commented

this page is made with which module?

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noslokire commented

I've played with a few but the site map module, http://drupal.org/project/site_map, tends to be the easiest and most flexible for my needs. The pros are the taxonomy terms and the automatic feeds. Cons are XML and search engine compatibility

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manderine commented

to handle the cons?

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dave reid
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Primary language English
Location Nebraska USA
commented

For XML and search engine compatibility you should be using the http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap module. It has a different purpose than the site_map.module.

manderine’s picture

manderine commented

Thanks!

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webtasarim commented

nice site

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_gramur commented

Nicely done. Looks like it the end result was well worth your troubles.

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Founder
Sivius.ca

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bonnie_c commented

I had been looking to do something similar with dolls, so thanks for the inspiration!

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bonnie_c commented

but is it ok if I ask you to help me out on the tag cloud. I cant seem to get it to work like you did. Thanx

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chocolatfrog commented

website not rendering all right in IE6, rigth menu is down

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noslokire commented

Making a conscious effort to make all my sites look as bad in IE6 as possible. No sense supporting ancient browsers and poor web security anymore...

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chocolatfrog commented

well that may be a good way to work for yourself but when doing and maintaining webpages is your profession you cant think that way.

IE6 is there and still will be there until windows xp is out, so it will be here a very very very long time. Yes its crappy, yes its poor security, yes its a pain to design css and so on... but not supporting it is a bad business decission.

you are a pro or you arent

wear the hat that fit

just saying

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RichieRich commented

Interesting point chocolatfrog, but I've heard from a couple of pros that they are putting less effort into supporting IE6 of late. One of the main arguments being that the cost-reward ratio is just to low in addition to the fact that most people who use IE6 are used to putting up with interface issues.

Personally I do check that my code runs on IE6, but them again I'm only semi-pro (run a website for myself which produces a side-income).

Interesting debate though. I suspect that many developers will cease to support IE6 before XP is truly defunct.

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noslokire commented

Being here in Seattle surrounded by Microsoft enthusiasts, they would be the first to say that IE6 is their biggest thorn in their site when it comes to the web. Its security flaws, poor display, and so on help fuel the flames that Microsoft can't make secure products. And is it their fault?

Not really.

I would make a case that the problem isn't Microsoft, they've tried to do their part by deploying 2 more browsers since which both work on XP, and then spending the money to try and get people to upgrade. I'd also say that its not the users fault, since everything works fine as far as they can see on the screen and getting the average person scared enough to do something about it is a tough task.

If I did point blame to one group, I'd say its the "pros" who continue to make their sites look pixel perfect on IE6. So yeah, maybe it is "professional" to design for IE6, but I'm pretty sure its also causing more harm than good.

And as we all know here in the Open Source world, great businesses aren't always about the bottom line.

Just my two cents...

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noslokire commented

to Google for discontinuing their support of IE6!

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