Improve Success Stories content, encourage new high-quality contributions [#940858]

http://redesign.drupal.org/success-stories

I love the idea of this page, but I feel it needs some more love. Add a 'featured story' block above the URL list, with a one sentence testimonial from a case study that says something awesome about drupal. Make the block clickable to the full case study.

This page seems designed to brag about the awesomeness of Drupal. Right now, it's a lot of text and a huge list of seemingly random links that are forcing a visitor to navigate more to read about success stories. By redesigning the page so that it's featuring happy people even before you read a specific case study, you get people more interested to actually stick around and read.

Comments

Comment #1

Anonymous (not verified) commented 14 October 2010 at 01:59

Totally agree! When you see names like examiner.com and a click here to read more link you kind of expect some fireworks to come out but all there is is an alphabetical list!

In the long term something with tabs for showing most clicked/highest rated/most emailed/etc. seems the norm for these kinds of pages when there's lots of data involved, but for the mean time I agree with the OP that we should have a featured case studies block.

There should be more case studies appearing as a result of last weekend's Drupal Brussels meetup, I'll post an issue over on http://drupal.org/project/emr (Enterprise Marketing Resources) to request some for the new d.o. if that will help.

Comment #2

lisarex commented 16 October 2010 at 13:57

Issue tags:

+drupal.org redesign, +drupal.org redesign content, +drupal.org redesign qa

Yes, we need folks to help out w/ keeping all these info / about pages up to date.
It's a pretty huge task...

Keep on the looking for how to help in the Marketing group on groups.drupal.org

Comment #3

Amazon commented 20 October 2010 at 04:00

I'm not sure this is a duplicate, but I'm going to cross-link to: http://drupal.org/node/940844

Comment #4

EvanDonovan commented 20 October 2010 at 04:03

Where is this page linked in the new Drupal.org?

Even though this issue isn't a duplicate of #940844: 'Sites Made With Drupal' page: suggestions to improve page clarity, I think that the pages should be consolidated into one master page.

I like the proposal of a three-column layout, as suggested in that issue. Also, it has to be dynamic in some way, or else it will easily get out of date.

Comment #5

Amazon commented 26 October 2010 at 07:39

Assigned:

Unassigned

» Amazon

Assigning this one to myself as well.

Comment #6

conorc commented 1 November 2010 at 16:46

Hi there,

Lisa asked me to paste these here. I've been looking to put together a presentation on a showcase of different sites made with Drupal and it was suggested to me that it would be good to look up the portfolios of Drupal Developers. My starting point was these 4 links. Dries's blog is the most informative collection for me, but there's probably better formats to present a showcase than a blog.
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites
http://drupal.org/cases
http://drupal.org/forum/25
http://www.drupalsites.net

There's a good overlap with this list of developers below and the service providers page:
http://drupal.org/drupal-services

PS: all these links are probably going to set off a spam alert, I have no commercial interest in any of the links presented above, though I may know people who work in one or two of them.

All the best

ConorC

(edited typo about 30min after posting)

Comment #7

conorc commented 2 November 2010 at 10:47

Hello,

following on from yesterday's links, here's a few listings of Drupal sites from a search

http://blog.templatemonster.com/2010/10/20/55-drupal-websites-showcase/
http://garmahis.com/inspiration/top-40-drupal-sites-showcase/
http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/31-drupal-content-management-system-cms/
http://blog.wearepropeople.com/drupal-showcase/
http://artatm.com/2010/02/showcase-of-popular-website-developed-using-dr...
http://drupalbased.com/
http://www.listology.com/jwalling/list/drupal-showcases-and-portfolios
http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/showcase_contest_entries
http://visionwidget.com/showcase/graphics/133-drupal-website-showcase.html
http://drupalscotland.org/aggregator/sources/2
http://www.topnotchthemes.com/blog/081008/12-knockout-drupal-designs
http://skitch.com/drupalrocks

There's probably a fair bit of overlap between them, but hopefully this helps a little.

PS: here's is a wiki of Irish sites, I'm guessing there must be the equivalent of this list for many other countries
http://groups.drupal.org/ireland/irish-sites

All the best,

Conor

Comment #8

Anonymous (not verified) commented 7 November 2010 at 17:11

I was wondering if it might help if developers could produce more case studies for website they have completed, such as an overview from the developer as to what the client's requirements were, how they went about the theme design, what modules they used and which ones, if any, that they had to tweak. I would see this as having the following elements, from a developer's aspect:

The Brief
Timeline - how long it all took
Features - must-have modules and how they were used to achieve this
The Theme
What challenges they faced in bring the site online.

http://drupal.org/node/862022 has this pretty much down pat in my opinion.

Just wondered if we could see more of this on drupal.org.

Thanks

Julian

Comment #9

Anonymous (not verified) commented 7 November 2010 at 17:13

Oops, forgot to add:

Travel and tourism category could maybe benefit from this addition:

http://www.definitelydubai.com/

Thanks

Julian

Comment #10

Amazon commented 11 November 2010 at 22:58

Here's the new Joomla showcase: http://community.joomla.org/showcase/

Comment #11

lisarex commented 12 November 2010 at 14:27

@macjules, I like the idea of giving case study writers an outline to work from. I've approached a couple Drupal site owners to say, "I really like your site; it should be a case study" but the response is that they don't have the time or knowhow to bring it all together.

Comment #12

conorc commented 22 November 2010 at 22:00

Hello,

here's a link to a presentation I gave at DrupalCamp Ireland in Trinity College Dublin yesterday showcasing a dozen or so sites built with Drupal.
http://www.drupalcampireland.org/sessions/showcase-international-sites-b...

Only had an hour, so just couldn't shoehorn any more in as I tried to briefly cover background as well as significant modules for each site. Updated the session page with links to the sites with references to articles and case studies about each of the sites.

Thanks to everyone who wrote up the original cases studies. The feedback that I got from people new to Drupal was that it made it easier to understand some of the potential that Drupal offers when seeing how other sites are put together. Special thanks to Maplight for their succinct video
http://maplight.org/us-congress/guide/video-tour

Conor

Comment #13

Anonymous (not verified) commented 30 November 2010 at 18:29

@lisa rex, I have just been through a presentation with a prospective client and the format I used to showcase my Drupal work was exactly as I laid it out above. Their digital head stated how much she liked the presentation was put together and actually said she would love to see that format used by all developers. Perhaps more devs could put the time in :)

Comment #14

lisarex commented 28 February 2011 at 15:15

For what it's worth, I've updated the guidelines for Showcases here: http://drupal.org/node/281920

Comment #15

lisarex commented 27 July 2011 at 12:05

Title:	Success Stories Page - Include some featured Case Studies - Maybe boast a little more?	» Improve Success Stories content, encourage new high-quality contributions
Project:	Drupal.org Redesign	» Drupal.org site moderators
Component:	About	» Site organization
Status:	Active	» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

There's some great info in here, but I'm postponing until #948062: Build Drupal Case Studies is done.

Comment #16

tvn commented 27 September 2013 at 14:40

Status:

Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

» Closed (won't fix)

Closing old issues. Please re-open if needed.

Improve Success Stories content, encourage new high-quality contributions