Drupal'ed up: www.delriolive.com
jghyde - July 7, 2006 - 06:10
http://www.delriolive.com/ is a community portal built around a converged media concept of combining print direct mail magazine and an Internet Web site. It's all Drupal'ed up!
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Here are some development details of http://www.delriolive.com
Jeff Rader out of Lubbock, TX was the lead developer on this project. Joe Hyde provided the tweaks and some of the CSS hacks.
The main theme we worked from was Simplex (or original one, not Simplex2)
Modules:
- Standard Drupal stuff and,
- Image
- Lightbox (AjAX lightbox thing is really effective for the amount of pics we have)
- CCK
- contemplate
- TinyMCE - absolutely AWESOME tool!!
- Event (we need to make some modifications to this one for better display)
- Vote up/Vote down (although we're still working out some bugs)
The flash show is a custom module called Flashbox written by Rader. There is also a custom module to select the main headline.
In all we took around 10 days to get the first revision of the site up with content. We're still working on it as we grow an audience. last week, our first print direct-mailed magazine was sent to 27,000++ mailboxes to promote our community portal. Traffic has been climbing briskly since then. Yahoo! Finance picked up one of our articles and linked it from there. The Mormans found us Wednesday and we saw a ton of Morman traffic since then (we're not Mormans, we wrote a story about Mormans and they liked it!). Earlier this month, we were picked up by Google News.
Congrats Are you sure you
Congrats
Are you sure you dont want the EXCERPT (TEasers) type of frontpage? This is from my point of view. I understand that lotsa readers, lotsa preferences. And I love scanning teasers especially if they have tiny images which lure to `read more' :)
And a multi-lingual site? (Does Del Rio Texas has many Spanish speakers?) The banner shows a Hispanic family, so I think it wont hurt to have i8n module (multi lingual)
Cheers
Nice! Jan ---- The Smart Boy
Nice!
Jan
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