The World using Drupal

Posted by bertboerland on October 9, 2006 at 9:41am

TheWorld.org is an daily international radio news magazine, co-produced by PRI, the BBC World Service, and WGBH. And it is running Drupal which brings us one step closer to our unofficial goal; "Gain World Domination"!

Well, maybe not yet, but at least it is one more Drupal site.

(Via Dries)

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Kind of curious that it's

Posted by rszrama on October 9, 2006 at 4:51pm

Kind of curious that it's not using clean url's. Is there any good reason not to use them if the web server has the capability? Neat site, tho.

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rewrite

Posted by bertboerland on October 9, 2006 at 6:49pm

it loos like a good install of drupal, but indeed they need clean URL's.

the server should be able to do it:

Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.46 OpenSSL/0.9.7a DAV/2 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.7

hint: 1) enable clean URL's
hint: 2) disable information given in server info and strip it down to for example "Apache"
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in the mean time, lower in the OSI stack

Posted by bertboerland on October 9, 2006 at 8:06pm

they have some more stuff to take care of:

Oct  9 20:44:06 tug named[1794]: lame server resolving 'www.theworld.org' (in 'THEWORLD.ORG'?): 18.71.0.151#53
Oct  9 22:02:48 tug named[1794]: lame server resolving 'griffin.wgbh.org' (in 'WGBH.ORG'?): 18.72.0.3#53
Oct  9 22:02:48 tug named[1794]: lame server resolving 'griffin.wgbh.org' (in 'WGBH.ORG'?): 18.71.0.151#53
[root@tug ~]#
[root@tug ~]# dnstracer theworld.org
Tracing to theworld.org[a] via 127.0.0.1, maximum of 3 retries
127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1)
 |\___ jam.wgbh.org [theworld.org] (198.147.175.14) Got authoritative answer
 |\___ griffin.wgbh.org [theworld.org] (198.147.175.10) Got authoritative answer
  \___ strawb.mit.edu [theworld.org] (18.71.0.151) Lame server

(lame)

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looks great!

Posted by mwu on October 9, 2006 at 8:35pm

that looks great!
can you tell me what theme you used (or at least started with?)

and could you list the modules please?

congratulations!

I'm not sure anyone that has

Posted by rbrooks00 on October 9, 2006 at 11:40pm

I'm not sure anyone that has posted yet has come over from the BBC. Lullabot did provide consulting on the project, but it was developed by their in-house resources.

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Polish National Railways is coming soon

Posted by mac_perlinski on September 3, 2008 at 12:00pm

Well to gain control over the world we are close and Polish National Railways will be my contribution for this goal www.pkp.pl
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Marketing resources

Posted by wmostrey on October 10, 2006 at 10:55am

Wouldn't it be a good idea to put these sites in a section of the Marketing resources page? With the UN, NATO, NASA, Moby, MTV UK and many more using Drupal, this might be a good place for developers to start if they want to convince their project leader or customer to switch from a commercial package to Drupal? Currently the only centralised place for this information is on Dries' blog:

http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites

there a lot more sites that aggregate drupal sites

Posted by bertboerland on October 10, 2006 at 7:23pm

apart from dries' site, there are a lot more sites that aggregate drupal sites, that is the problem! so yes, we do need this information central on drupal.org. i will write some pages and submit them to the queue

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...

Posted by sepeck on October 10, 2006 at 11:13pm

http://drupal.org/cases
http://drupalsites.net/
http://top.drupalsites.net/

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phptemplate engine

Posted by mwu on October 10, 2006 at 3:16pm

I really like the theme and would like to model something after it. How would I go about it?

How do I know if it's phptemplate engine?

That's great they're using

Posted by dvessel on October 10, 2006 at 4:40pm

That's great they're using Drupal but it isn't too impressive. I think they should hire new designers.

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design

Posted by mwu on October 10, 2006 at 4:54pm

I think the design is great! Perhaps you can point me to the sites that you've done that you like better. I'm always looking for good sites to model after.

Just stating an opinion. If

Posted by dvessel on October 10, 2006 at 5:19pm

Just stating an opinion. If I see poorly made car I'm not going to say it's great just because I can't make one. Well, I can make a drupal site but even if my ability to do so was poor it doesn't mean we can't spot another.

If it was another site made by a small org then I'd say it's decent but it's the BBC. They can do better. :)

And here's a redesign I'm working on. Will break horribly in IE as it's a work in progress. It's just a personal site.

–joon

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Nice work. I really like

Posted by StevenSokulski on October 10, 2006 at 10:12pm

Nice work. I really like the way the foreground background...er...the background that is in front of the background and behind the node text scrolls but the actual background doesn't. Nice feel.

gotta agree, that design is so web 1.0

Posted by travisc on October 23, 2006 at 5:15am

which is weird because the BBC's design of their web properties is usually top notch. I guess these guys are underfunded or something...

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does not break

Posted by mwu on October 23, 2006 at 4:56pm

what I like about it is that it works in all my browsers, and most sites break. Can you point me to (Drupal and non-Drupal) sites you think are good and I'll see if they break in my browser test? thank you.

Am I the only one suprised

Posted by StevenSokulski on October 10, 2006 at 5:04pm

Am I the only one suprised to see how high Drupal.org is on Alexa's rankings? 833!!

yes

Posted by bertboerland on October 11, 2006 at 6:58am

since it has been at least a couple of month. I think it was even posted on drupal.org or the infra mailinglist.

surprised or not, it sure is good and weird to see that "a site hosting a specific oss product and some community support" ends up in the top 1000.

it just shows drupal.org is more then "a site hosting a specific oss product and some community support", it is us!

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wishfull thinking

Posted by bertboerland on October 13, 2006 at 12:49pm

or do I see a small "drupal.org" effect on alexa

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No one knows which modules

Posted by benevolent001 on October 23, 2006 at 6:19pm

No one knows which modules are that website using? and layout stuff any hints about themes? how can i make those two columns in the main content? and the navigation am new to this

thanks

front

Posted by gener on October 25, 2006 at 4:06pm

might be dashboard.module

Most likely regions as

Posted by StevenSokulski on October 26, 2006 at 12:31am

Most likely regions as dashboard has announced that it will no longer be supported.

to be fair

Posted by sepeck on October 26, 2006 at 2:00am

http://drupal.org/project/panels is replacing http://drupal.org/project/dashboard so there are still options.

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How do you see it's a drupal site?

Posted by elvislam on January 31, 2007 at 9:44am

Did you get it from its URL structure?

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fingerprinting

Posted by bertboerland on January 31, 2007 at 3:39pm

there are zillions of way to do cms fingerprinting. URL's of other cms-es are getting more and more drupaly so that is not the only and best criteria now anymore. looking for /user (which the world doesnt do) or / search (dito) is good

but having

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/misc/drupal.css";</style>

in the source (view source in browser) is also a hint :-)

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