By bertboerland on

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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rszrama commented

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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bertboerland commented

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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bertboerland commented

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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mwu commented

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

and could you list the modules please?

congratulations!

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rbrooks00 commented

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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mac_perlinski commented

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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wmostrey commented

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

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bertboerland commented

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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sepeck commented

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

-Steven Peck
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mwu’s picture

mwu commented

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?

dvessel’s picture

dvessel commented

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

–joon

mwu’s picture

mwu commented

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.

dvessel’s picture

dvessel commented

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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StevenSokulski commented

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.

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travisc commented

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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mwu commented

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.

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StevenSokulski commented

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

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bertboerland commented

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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bertboerland commented

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

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benevolent001 commented

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

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gener-1 commented

might be dashboard.module

StevenSokulski’s picture

StevenSokulski commented

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

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sepeck commented

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

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elvislam commented

Did you get it from its URL structure?

Elvis Lam
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bertboerland commented

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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