By cre8d on

Hi everyone,

We recently launched Throng - for TV fans which is proudly made using Drupal. Here's some features:

Each user gets a blog and categorises their posts in two ways: once using the type of post (rant, rave, gossip, spoilers, news etc) and once with the name of the show(s) they're writing about.

This way, people can follow their favourite blogs, or just read news/spoilers etc, or just read posts about a specific TV show (e.g. Grey's Anatomy or The O.C.. There's also a forum view, if people prefer looking at the content that way.

Because the list of shows is rather long (and growing as people post about other shows), a special page was created with the help of the tagadelic module.

The taxonomy image module has enabled each show has its own picture.

The love/hate module has meant that people can list the shows they love/hate. And when they go to the shows page and they're logged in, the colors of the show change to pink/blue depending on their preferences.

Thanks to the Amazon Associate Tools and Currency Exchange API, we have our own Shop with pricing in local currency. The exchange rate is daily when cron is run.

The Bookmarksmodule has meant that members can add their favourite blogs to the sidebar of their blog. The module has been adapted so these bookmarks are public.

The Views module has been invaluable.

Other handy little modules include: Smileys, Word filter, URL filter, Private msg, Google Analytics and Forward. A few custom modules have also been written.

Rachel

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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rivena commented

What a lovely site! I'm sure it's the result of a lot of hard work and testing. Thank you for posting what modules you used! A lot of users will find it helpful. :) If there is any code you can share through snippets, please do!

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cre8d commented

You're welcome :) If there's any code snippets you're interested in let me know.

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noraa commented

I think it's great looking. Not at all "drupally" looking like so many complain about (I personally think it just takes patience with the themes, like I'm finding out ). I'd be interested in knowing how you did the join/login, and then had it change to "my blog" after joining. I was trying to do something similar today with my site and I think there was another here asking also. One thing, and maybe I just missed it, but after signing up I didn't see a message saying an email is being sent with the password. Anyway, nice site and good luck with it.

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cre8d commented

Thanks so much!

In my theme's template.php I have the following:

function throng_loginarea() {
  global $user;
  if ($user->uid)
    echo l('My blog','blog/'.$user->uid);
  else 
    echo l('Join','user/register') . l('Log in','/user/');
return;
}

I think I need to make the message box saying an email is on its way a lot more noticeable - it's towards the top of the page in a grey box. Thanks for letting me know!

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hectorplus commented

Great looking web site, thanks for the explanations, and listing the modules. I am learning something new everyday. I am inspired by your site!

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bradsw57 commented

Great site, with great design! It's refreshing to see some original designs coming out :)

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cre8d commented

Thanks for the lovely comments :)

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cre8d commented

PS I gave the wrong link to the forum view in my original post, to see the forum view go here. I say forum "view" since it's not a separate forum from the rest of the content.

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orick commented

If you didn't say, I would never have guess it was drupal powered. How did you get it to look so great? Is it all work with theme engine? If you have any tips on that, I would love to hear it.

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cre8d commented

Thanks!

The secret for me was designing the look of the site completely separately to Drupal - then using phpTemplate to make it happen (along with Views and the other modules I mentioned). I think sometimes we need to start completely away from an existing Drupal theme, otherwise it will look the same as the other Drupal sites.

Every site is different though, and this approach worked well for Throng :)