Drupal versus beautiful websites?

Posted by steenfunck on June 10, 2010 at 3:12pm

Someone once told me that Drupal (as well as other standard or open source platforms) always turns websites into standard looking discounted off the shelf looking sites with poor user journeys. In short: ugly and annoying websites. Well, I decided to give it a go when setting up my first online venture, a webstore selling Danish designed fashion aimed at plus size women in the UK. Launching last week I think we have done a fairly good job so far. We still have some bugs to fix and loads of improvements to make, but feel free to get inspiration on kurvs.co.uk.

All the best

Steen

Comments

Your site in Drupal

Posted by jon-gregory on June 10, 2010 at 4:36pm

Very attractive site, not at all ugly or annoying. Good luck with it!

Jon Gregory
win-that-job.com

Thanks Jon-gregory!

Posted by steenfunck on June 14, 2010 at 10:09am

Thanks Jon-gregory!

Steen

A bit too dark to my taste but quite so polished.

Posted by betarobot on June 11, 2010 at 12:41pm

This one IS nice. A bit too dark to my taste but quite so polished.

And those who say all CMS sites are poorly designed... well, get a good developer and a talented designer. kurvs.co.uk is a great example.

And btw there are more nice drupal sites at http://www.drupalsites.net

Cheers,
Andrey
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And thanks for your comments

Posted by steenfunck on June 14, 2010 at 10:10am

And thanks for your comments as well, betarobot!

Steen

Can be done indeed, but good

Posted by dman on June 11, 2010 at 12:51pm

Can be done indeed, but good stuff takes skill. http://www.drupalmuseum.com/
Drupal itself is not an impediment, it's up to the abilities and inspiration of the developer and designer.
kurvs.co.uk looks nice - no compromise there :-) Good result for a first venture indeed!

_{.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards}

Thanks dman! Appreciate the

Posted by steenfunck on June 14, 2010 at 10:11am

Thanks dman! Appreciate the comments.

Steen

Here are the first 2 sites I have

Posted by TiG on June 11, 2010 at 9:53pm

built using Drupal

http://www.touchiphonegames.com
http://www.sunnydaywebdesign.com

I think that Drupal is unreal, you can do pretty much anything you want if you are prepared to learn from the ground up. Think outside the box and you can create any kind of site with any style of layout you can imagine.

I still have lots to learn myself, but I think that Drupal is the bee's knees :)

http://www.touchiphonegames.com