By teh_catt on
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Retrobabble is a new community website for retro-fans worldwide. Covering retro games, tv, cartoons, toys, gadgets, music, film and sport, this website is a celebration of all the things that bring back memories and give you the warm and fuzzies.

Retrobabble is my first Drupal website (so go easy) and started out as a sandbox to teach myself Drupal for other client projects. The site was built using the excellent 'Ultimate Community Site Guide' ebook by Dorien Herremans (see the Drupal Fun website for details) and I strongly recommend this to Drupal beginners.

The site features user submitted stories, videos, website links and picture galleries and a simple question/answer section for discussion. Users can vote for content they like with a Digg style 'BabbleUp' widget and featured content is displayed in a dynamic slider block on the homepage (using Philip Blaauw's Dynamic Display Block module).

Any feedback will be gratefully received and I'd like to say a big thank you to all the Drupal community for making Retrobabble possible!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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yeeloon commented

It's a very good community site you've there. Awesome site!

Btw, can you tell me how did you code the social media links (twitter, fb, stumbleupon n digg). I was trying to implement the same stuff on nodes. Btw, I don't like having the "unpretty" buttons layout of those 3rd party (addthis, sharethis). Is this done using a specific module? Would you mind pasting the code over here" :)

Thanks,
yeeloon

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teh_catt commented

Thanks for the feedback yeeloon, much appreciated.

I also tried loads of different solutions for the social media links but couldn't find a module or plugin that did it elegantly so I just hard coded it into the nodes and teasers. not a great solution but it works and i don't have to go via third parties like addthis.

It took a lot of digging (!) around to find out how to do this just for simple sharing buttons - I'm surprised how few tutorials or guides there are on this so when I get some time...I can see why people just use addthis etc but the layouts just didnt fit my theme and in the end I decided to just try and do it myself.

I really should have a go at turning this into a module at some point - but I don't really have the skills or the time right now so any takers please feel free.

here's the code I used on the main 'babble' content node..

<div class="socialmedia">
            <?php $node=node_load(arg(1));?>
            
            <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Latest babble on Retrobabble.com: http://www.retrobabble.com/<?php print  $node->path; ?>"><img src="<?php print base_path() ?>sites/all/themes/retrobabble/images/icons/socialmedia/twitter_16.png" title="Tweet this" alt="Tweet this" /></a>
            				
            <a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.retrobabble.com/<?php print $node->path; ?>&amp;t=<?php print check_plain($node->title); ?>&amp;d=<?php print check_plain($node->field_slide_text[0]['safe']) ?>">
            <img src="<?php print base_path() ?>sites/all/themes/retrobabble/images/icons/socialmedia/facebook_16.png" title="Share on Facebook" alt="Share on Facebook" /></a>
            
            <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.retrobabble.com/<?php print  $node->path; ?>&amp;title=<?php print check_plain($node->title) ?>"><img src="<?php print base_path() ?>sites/all/themes/retrobabble/images/icons/socialmedia/stumbleupon_16.png" title="Stumble this" alt="Stumble this" /></a>	
            
            <a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http%3A//www.retrobabble.com/<?php print $node->path; ?>&amp;title=<?php print check_plain($node->title); ?>&amp;bodytext=<?php print $node->field_slide_text[0]['safe'] ?>"><img src="<?php print base_path() ?>sites/all/themes/retrobabble/images/icons/socialmedia/digg_alt_16.png" title="Digg this" alt="Digg this" /></a>
            </div>
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yeeloon commented

thanks for sharing!

will prolly stick with using the std tweetmeme n fb like buttons for now...