Posted by chx on March 7, 2006 at 8:18am
Another nice site running Drupal -- and their announcement contains some interesting remarks:
An amazingly powerful taxonomy system.
No more PHPBB hacks. Seriously that's huge. What the Drupal forums lack in PHPBB familiarity they make up for in intelligent design.
Track stories and other people on the site better
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Too SFX-ish!
Too SFX-ish. Also, I spent one minute trying to figure out what the site is about. A mission statement/description would be nice, because it isn't all that obvious from visiting the site. Not that impressive IMHO.
Comixpedia
It's about webcomics.
I'm sure at some point I will create or pay someone to write a custom theme but in terms of moving over to Drupal I wanted to use things that seemed to have a track record of working. We've been getting crushed under growing levels of traffic this year - one of the reason I finally leaped to Drupal - and I didn't want a custom module or theme to undermine the impressive ability of "core" Drupal to handle large amounts of traffic.
SpreadFirefox had some nice similarities in design to the PN site we were running on up until this week.
Read About Webcomics At ComixTalk!
You All Beat Me To the Punch!
Comixpedia is a site about webcomics and runs news, reviews, interviews about them.
Comixpedia has run on Postnuke for 3 years (it started in 2003) and I just ported over part of the site this week. So far I've been impressed and gotten what I expected with Drupal.
I had investigated Drupal earlier in its history but it wasn't until I had gained a lot of familiarity with PHP and MYSQL to even feel comfortable trying to use Drupal. Plus of course Drupal has gotten better with each version.
I'm still learning about the code under the hood as eventually I may want to write some additional modules to replicate some custom PN coding. But that's for later this year I think.
Read About Webcomics At ComixTalk!
Congrats!
I was the guy who replied to your earlier post about the conversion, and I was startled to see how quickly you jumped in! Nice job on the conversion, I'm excited to see where you go with it.
Perhaps in the future you'd be interested in discussing the possibilities for a drupa-based webcomic platform. It's something I've been mulling for a while, and it would certainly be a great help for the artists out there who don't want to roll their own or go with Keen...
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