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I've been running Walford Web since 1997 and have steadily built up the content over the years so that I have about 3,500 various types of document - episode details, news items, features, pictures etc. For about the last eight years of this I've used a home-spun CMS that has worked for me, but I don't have the heart to keep revising it.

So I did my research and turned to Drupal. I've spent the last couple of months doing work on the site, did an import of most of my content (by and large very successfully), and I'm nearly ready to go live.

I am a freelance web designer from Colombo, Sri Lanka. This is my first website. I developed this site as a community portal for Sri Lanka.

Website URL: http://www.srilankaonline.org

Drupal version: 6.19

Theme: Mix and Match, a Fusion sub-theme with Skinr support

Contributed Modules

CCK - For the various content-types and custom fields
Views - For creating lists of content
Views Slideshow - For the image galleries
Search Lucene API - for faceted site search (Try searching for "colombo")
Display Suite - for the node layouts
Boost - To speed up page loading
Classified Ads - for the classified ads section
CAPTCHA - for spam prevention
Fivestar - For rating
Job Posting - for the job board
Quicktabs
Page Title
Quiz
Webform
Tooltips

To prevent users outside of Sri Lanka from registering, I used a combination of Countries API, IP to Country and Register Country. I would like to have some feedback on this.

I am not very good at graphic design and I have not hired a graphic designer yet. Have a look at this business profile http://www.srilankaonline.org/profile/733. Let me have your suggestions.

I am using shared hosting from iWeb. I would like to know how fast the pages load and any browser problems.

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