How easy it to build a site like this...

Posted by ps1973 on November 3, 2009 at 1:29pm

http://www.threadless.com

We want the same kind of functionality (not design) as this site for art instead of Tees, I have never used Drupal though. Is this the right software to use and any ideas how to do this?

Thanks in advance :)

A quick outline of what we want to do:

Allow users to submit artwork to a gallery.
Users can rate the artwork, leave comments, have a personal profile etc
The top 5 rated each week will then be sent to print and put into our shop.

Comments

Yeah, Threadless is great

Posted by marcvangend on November 3, 2009 at 2:42pm

Yeah, Threadless is great :-)
All of the things you mention in your quick outline is possible with Drupal and a number of modules.
Start with installing Drupal 6. Set up your content types with the CCK module (www.drupal.org/project/cck), create user profiles with Content Profile (www.drupal.org/project/content_profile), do the rating with Fivestar (www.drupal.org/project/fivestar), make the gallery with Views (www.drupal.org/project/views)... And when it all works, create your custom theme to create the appearance you want.
But is it "easy"? That's like asking "How easy is it to learn French?" - it depends on your skills, I can't judge that.

Thanks for all that info,

Posted by ps1973 on November 3, 2009 at 2:58pm

Thanks for all that info, i'll have a go at it right now...

(I realised the 'easy' comment as I posted it! I have a fair few years worth of web design (frontend mainly), should have mentioned that....although I dont think that matters, this is all new to me so it may take a while!

Thanks for your help.

Good luck, and feel free to

Posted by marcvangend on November 3, 2009 at 4:06pm

Good luck, and feel free to come back with (more specific) questions later on.

Clone of Threadless.com or MadeByHumans.com

Posted by CrowdAsia.com on January 18, 2011 at 10:51am

Dear Mark ( I guess that is your name :),

I would like to know whether you are able to clone the pages I mentioned above, since I seems so you have extensice experiences with Drupal and knows what to do to get this project done?!

Looking forward to hear back from you very shortly,

Regards,

Filip

Actually, my name is

Posted by marcvangend on January 18, 2011 at 11:13am

Actually, my name is Marc...
I would be able to build a site with similar functionality, but that said, it will never be a 100% exact copy (or at least, it wouldn't be worth the time make it identical to the last pixel). However I think that cloning an existing site is a bad business model, and you're likely to get into legal trouble.
Anyway, I'm not sure what you expect from me now. I may be able to do that, but I'm not going to do it for you, as you will probably understand.