By bryan kennedy on

Science Buzz, the Science Museum of Minnesota's current science community website and science blog has been awarded two distinctions at the 2006 Museums and the Web conference (the international conference for culture and heritage online).

Science Buzz won:
Best Innovative or Experimental Application
and
Best of the Web aka Best Overall Museum Web Site

Much of the credit for this work goes to the Drupal community. Drupal allows me the ability to build off of a large group of amazing features and to bring an active online community to our museum. Thanks Drupal!

ps - I am already runing 4.7b6 for the site and am hoping to build off of this incarnation's ability to add social tagging for our next project on the site. Drupal consistently offers up new features like this that are the envy of the entire museum community.

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kae’s picture

kae commented

congrats! I linked to it
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/node/120
can you tell us what modules you used please? running b6. impressive.

boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented

Congrats. Rather than "just" a module list, a case study is always appreciated to go in the success stories section. Just hit "add child page" and do your write up, and the documentation team will approve it.

bryan kennedy’s picture

bryan kennedy commented

Yes, I would be happy to. I am off on vacation in London starting tomorrow. But after I get back I will write one up. As far as a quick fix I will go ahead and post my module list:

  • aggregator - hacked version of the core version
  • archive
  • block
  • blog
  • blogapi
  • book
  • buzz - personal custom module that handles some JS stuff
  • comment
  • contact
  • customerror
  • devel
  • drupal
  • event
  • feedback
  • filter
  • flexinode - a version a couple of cvs updates ago that worked well
  • forum
  • forward
  • front
  • help
  • image
  • img_assist - the new one
  • legacy
  • live_discussions
  • locale
  • members
  • menu
  • node
  • page
  • path
  • pathauto
  • ping
  • poll - super hacked version to allow kiosk computers in the museum to vote multiple times from the same ip with a JS timer and activex controls to print recipts of votes
  • profile
  • search
  • site_map
  • statistics
  • story
  • system
  • taxonomy
  • taxonomy_browser
  • taxonomy_context
  • taxonomy_image
  • throttle
  • tinymce - temp. disabled
  • tracker
  • upload
  • user
  • watchdog
  • whatsrelated

I wrote my own theme hacked from the box_grey starter with phptemplate and am using several extra JS libraries to do a couple things. More on this later.

kae’s picture

kae commented

Bryan, thanks! I didn't know so much 4.7.0b6 modules were working together already. I'm interested to see that you didn't use views. thanks a lot for posting. have a great vacation.

GWL’s picture

GWL commented

poll - super hacked version to allow kiosk computers in the museum to vote multiple times from the same ip with a JS timer and activex controls to print recipts of votes

Woah! I need this! Is your solution posted somewhere where I can see it? I found this forum post but there didn't appear to be a final solution there ...

Thanks!
Gary

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radiofranky commented

very easy to navigate! nice layout. Can you share how did u achieve what u got? for example, the comment block.. :) tks

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georgestopka@gmail.com commented

What an exciting site.
It's so encouraging, when I'm having trouble with modules, themes, etc., to see yet another well-crafted, well-themed Drupal site alive on the web. It doesn't look or act like "just-another-drupal-site."
Kudos!

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Walt Esquivel commented

A hearty congrats to Bryan and the Science Museum of Minnesota for a wonderfully presented, nicely laid out, and well thought-out web site.

http://ltc.smm.org/buzz/ gives me inspiration on what Drupal can do when customized for a special purpose.

I look forward to reading the case study...once Bryan gets back from drinking pints in London! ;)

Great job!

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President, Wellness Corps, LLC
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drupalec-1 commented

Bryan,
you found a great list of modules that don't conflict with each other. Can you please tell us how you ended up with this list? There are so many modules similar to whatsrelated, such as relativity, category, distant parent. Was there a list of modules you tried that you got from somewhere? Were there modules that you tried and rejected?

thank you

What are the main differences between 4.7 and 4.6?
see http://www.drupalecommerce.com/47vs46

DaddysGirl’s picture

DaddysGirl commented

That is an incredibly creative, interactive and beautifluly designed website. Congratulations! I am a new user of Drupal and your site gives me confidence (not that I can do it, but that it can be done!)

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drupalec-1 commented

couldn't connect to your server at 9:35 west coast u.s. time. who is your host?
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Drupal ecommerce, at www.drupalecommerce.com is a new site written using language that Drupal beginners and intermediate users can understand. It has about 300 unfinished pages. 2 tutorials for views module under "Modules"

bryan kennedy’s picture

bryan kennedy commented

Ha, yes, we are having fairly major server problems right now. We host internally on a G5 running os x sever. We are having some problems with Apache crashing due to some memory leak. I am tearing my hair out trying to figure out the problem. I don't think it is drupal per se. Oh well. Once things quiet down I will write a case study and post it in the hand book. Thanks so much for all the kind words.

bryan

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drupalec-1 commented

Looking forward to the case study about the modules. (And do tell us what caused the server crashes!) Thank you.
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Drupal ecommerce, at www.drupalecommerce.com is a new site written using language that Drupal beginners and intermediate users can understand. Which version to use? http://www.drupalecommerce.com/47vs46

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drupal.de commented

"Science Buzz, the Science Museum of Minnesota's current science community website and science blog has been awarded two distinctions at the 2006 Museums and the Web conference (the international conference for culture and heritage online).

Science Buzz won:
Best Innovative or Experimental Application
and
Best of the Web aka Best Overall Museum Web Site

Much of the credit for this work goes to the Drupal community. Drupal allows me the ability to build off of a large group of amazing features and to bring an active online community to our museum. Thanks Drupal!

ps - I am already runing 4.7b6 for the site and am hoping to build off of this incarnation's ability to add social tagging for our next project on the site. Drupal consistently offers up new features like this that are the envy of the entire museum community."

Gibt es die Infos auch in Deutsch "German" ??

Gruß

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