By m3avrck on

The new TWiT.tv has finally launched. Graphics by Arktyp and built by Lullabot, the new site is certainly a showcase that Drupal *can* be used to make beautiful sites. The site only uses a handful of modules, with a majority of it being just theming, CCK (for podcasts), and Views (for the episode guide). The rest is pure Drupal 4.7 goodness :-)

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jjeff’s picture

jjeff commented

For those of you so inclined:

http://digg.com/design/TWiT.tv_redesign,_at_last!

-jeff

gusaus’s picture

gusaus commented

http://digg.com/view/all/popular/today

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Gus Austin

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Magree commented

Thanks for the resource, Jeff
Are there any expanding resources on this?
That would be appreciated.

Greetings,,
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ac
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Looks great!
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Alex Cochrane
Spoon Media

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ericatkins commented

Agree. Great example of how to take control of themes in Drupal.

Cheeze’s picture

Cheeze commented

Isn't the CCK module still under development? Is it stable to use on a live site?

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hyoomen commented

Awesome looking, but I've already come across issues when using the 'search' feature when seeking "Leo's picks" (the regular link from the front page is broken).

Good to see Drupal looking so hot, though.

m3avrck’s picture

m3avrck commented

Yes I'm working with Leo to fix bugs today. Many of these crept up as his server is configured differently. Apache did crash earlier today and he rebuilt it and that solved a number of issues :-)

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rbrooks00 commented

Quick answer is yes it is still under development but parts of it are stable enough to use. The vision of CCK is pretty grand but there are some usable tools that work right now.

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alexis commented

Nice design, I specially like the navigation sidebar and the blueish color palette.

The idea of just linking to the login and sign up is a good one, you can save the space used by the user block that way, I'll borrow that in my next design :)

I'm not too sure about the color of the text links on the hover state, they don't contrast with the background.

Neat Flash player for hearing the podcasts on the site and well located options for subscribing or downloading the episodes.

I think using the "Uhh?" is a good idea, although the link doesn't look too "clickable". It's a very well written about page.

A great prove of what Drupal can do, quite inspiring!

Alexis Bellido - Ventanazul web solutions

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LateNightDesigner commented

I loved Leo when he was on the Screen Savers, this is a great build and has a fun look. Definately something I will spend some time on!
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gusaus commented

Based on the comments (on TWIT, digg, etc.) so far, people are really loving the site (and not believing it's Drupal).

Very easy to navigate thru all the channels and shows. Audio player and subscribe mechanisms are nice and effective. Like how the 'news' section is actually the 'blogs' but it says 'news' on the page and in the breadcrumbs -- like this:

Home » News » Leo Laporte's blog
Home » News » A Lindsay's blog

I look forward to hearing more details about how it was built.

Great job!

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Gus Austin

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pacheco commented

nice work guys!!!
state of art in drupal

mwu’s picture

mwu commented

hi
what are you using to power the $2 monthly recurring paypal donation?

is cck stable now and ready for widespread usage by novices?

m3avrck’s picture

m3avrck commented

The $2 is the form code from Paypal, cut and pasted.

CCK is fairly stable, however, they are a few caveats to using it but they are hard to explain in a sentence or two. I would be cautious deploying CCK if you are not super familar with how it works, but overall, it is working quite well. Just be careful, there have been instances when I have lost data (only in testing though). As always, make regular backups :-)

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mwu commented

is it at all possible to explain under what circumstances could data be lost?

what would you recommend someone who is not a programmer to use?
a) simple custom module made from example node
b) flexinode despite not being fully upgraded to 4.7
c) use cck and hope for the best
d) use cck and plan a large budget to hire you fix things when data disappears. (and you don't mean it's gone from the database, or do you?)

m3avrck’s picture

m3avrck commented

Well the data I lost was when the database schema for CCK changed quite a bit and for some reason during the upgrade things got mangled and I lost data (yes data in the database, but it was all test data). However, that portion of CCK has stablized so I don't see that happening again.

I would opt for option c) and when bugs do creep up use your budget to hire people to fix these bugs in the CCK project so we can make that platform as stable as possible. :-)

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mwu commented

right. i remember Robert Douglas warning people that the database scheme was being rewritten and to wait until after it's done.

Sounds like it's been done and it's safe to use CCK now. Thank you very much for your input.