Subsites / Organic Groups / Panels [#747308]

After reading the Subsites project description, there seems to be some overlap with Organic Groups and Panels (I could also simply be missing the point here).

I'm currently looking for a way to build an extensible array of subsites, so I was wondering why you decided to create a new module for this functionality, rather than going for OG and/or Panels, or building on top of those. Would it be possible to briefly explain this? Thanks.

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Comment #1

brunodbo

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CreditAttribution: brunodbo commented 19 March 2010 at 15:53

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Subsites / OG / Panels

» Subsites / Organic Groups / Panels

Clarifying title.

Comment #2

davyvdb CreditAttribution: davyvdb commented 21 March 2010 at 10:25

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» Fixed

Subsites has pretty much nothing in common with OG/Panels. You might be able to do the same thing with context though. The problem is that context is pretty unintuitive for non-tech people. Subsites was developed for webmasters with little knowledge of the inner working of Drupal.

The use case for which it was developed is to create simple sections on a website with a few differences in look. Mostly these are campaign or advertising takeovers. It is used on a few Belgian broadcaster sites like vt4.be. Using subsites the webmasters can very easily brand a program with a sponsor's design/logo/...