Posted by synesis on December 22, 2009 at 8:24pm
This site was developed in drupal 6. It is a search engine to find American made companies. There are ads throughout the site, which are dynamically loaded based on the page they are on. Additionally, we are also pulling in data from another custom CMS. Drupal did a great job in providing a great framework for this project.
Help put Americans back to work by purchasing products made in the USA. Dig U.S. Out promotes American companies who manufacture 50% or more of their products in the USA. Join us in supporting American companies and American jobs by purchasing American-made products because together we can Dig U.S. Out.
Comments
terrific! did you use a
terrific!
did you use a j-query (cant remember the word) menu? what kind of search module?
Yes, we are using jquery to
Yes, we are using jquery to show the menu on hover. We are dynamically pulling the menu items from the database. Didn't use a module, just wrote it in php.
We didn't use the built in search module or solr. We ended up writing our own search function. We are indexing all needed data, and then doing some unique filtering. It's not a normal search. We are adding weight to companies based on certain criteria.
Thanks for the positive feedback!
http://www.GoSynesis.com
I like the menu
I usually don't like drop down menus but this one is easy to use (it doesn't retract when you are trying to use it) What is it?
For you listings what kind of modules are you using? Is it automated or manual listing?
The sub-menu are divs that
The sub-menu are divs that are being displayed on hover. The menu items in the divs are being dynamically pulled and created using custom php code.
We didn't use any modules for the listings, because that data is being created in separate advertising CMS. A company gets added in the advertising CMS, and then does an insert into the Drupal DB. If we didn't have to tie into this advertising CMS, then CCK and a new node type would have worked perfectly.
http://www.GoSynesis.com