USA Hospital Directory, drupal 6

superxain - August 31, 2009 - 09:22

USA Hospital Directory

USA Hospital Directory is a free yellow page style website focusing on American health care institutions. Hospitals are listed by State and City, in alphabetical order. Phone numbers, addresses and location maps of thousands of US hospitals is a click away.

drupal and USA Hospital Directory

USA Hospital Directory was built with drupal 6. I used the theme acquia_marina, and almost nothing was modified. USA Hospital Directory is a simple website, but in fact, lots of modules were used to built it.

admin_menu, advanced_help, backup_migrate, views_bulk_operations were used for administration and maintenance.

cck, date, email, gmap, link, location were to used for constructing hospital content type, containing hospital location ( latitude and longitude, address, zip code), hospital website address (link) and the email addresses of hospitals (email).

contemplate, views, related_terms, print,tagadelic.. these module were used to show hospital lists and hospital info pages. I used contemplate module to show the hospital info page the way I want, including a hospital location map was shown with google map api. States and Cities were related to hospitals as taxonomy terms, and were shown with tagadelic and related_terms. To show hospital in alphabetical order, I used a duty cheat ( http://www.o-learn.com/content/drupal-6-list-nodes-alphabetical-order ).

xmlsitemap, search404, seo_checklist, site_map, nodewords, page_title, globalredirect, pathauto, captcha, google_analytics, token were also used, most for seo purpose.

Any suggestions to make USA Hospital Directory more useful are welcome!

i woudl get rid of the ads

calebm12 - September 1, 2009 - 12:54

i woudl get rid of the ads that appear right next to the hospital details. almost didnt see them at all. also woudl format the details...maybe inline the field title and the field....or bold the field title.
Also...add some pics....the color scheme and font makes it look like one of those landing pages.

Thank you for your advises. I

superxain - September 2, 2009 - 05:16

Thank you for your advises. I think add some pics will certainly help. Maybe ads should be put below the maps.

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Where did you get the

dman - September 2, 2009 - 05:25

Where did you get the taxonomy for states and counties? I'm looking out for examples for taxonomy_xml, and wondered how the import was done for you...

.dan.

States and countries can

superxain - September 7, 2009 - 08:59

States and countries can easily be download from internet. I used taxonomy_csv module to import the data in to the website.

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Hi, Would you consider

Summit - November 2, 2009 - 22:52

Hi,
Would you consider attaching your taxonomy in taxonomy_csv or taxonomy_xml format?
Great website!
Greetings, Martijn

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have you ever thought of

socialtalker - September 5, 2009 - 18:59

have you ever thought of having some kind of ratings system or connected to some kind of ratings system? or have news or something on the front page. or show what the hospitals are famous for or something like that?

Thank you for your nice idea.

superxain - September 7, 2009 - 09:02

Thank you for your nice idea. Yes! A rating system should be added and popular / high-rated hospital lists as blocks may be put into the front page.

Thanks again.

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Map problem

jdwalling - September 11, 2009 - 23:20

Bellevue Medical Center maps to UW Medical Center campus.
http://usa.a-hospital.com/hospital/bellevue-medical-center

Thanks for the note. I will

superxain - September 13, 2009 - 10:28

Thanks for the note. I will correct it.

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