This is the first Drupal site I've developed, maybe not your typical Drupal
site but then again what is. It's more of a showcase in itself for the work of an Irish artist. I hope
to add the ubercart module in the future to help the Artist sell their paintings online.
Take a look and give me some feedback if you like. www.aptdesigns.ie
I hope this is my first of many Drupal sites, I've picked out some of the main modules I've
used that may not be obvious/standard.
Please note: this site contains some adult content.
Faced with the daunting task of developing an e-commerce website from scratch, I decided to make use of Drupal. I'd never worked with it before, but was able to get a rudimentary site up quickly. For management of items and checkout, I went with Ubercart.
It's been a bit over a year now since we switched Synotrip over to Drupal. The site is both:
- A travel information site, where users can add their own content such as reviews, photos and events.
- A place to find independent Chinese tour guides.
We originally decided to use an open-source CMS such as Drupal or Joomla or Wordpress to speed up development. After pissing around with Joomla for a couple weeks with no success, I found that Drupal has two incredibly powerful modules that would really be useful for us: Views and CCK. With these modules, one can do so much!
The way we built the site would take too long to explain due to all the modules and customizations we made. Instead, I'm going to focus on what we did to boost site performance. We've found performance issues to be a problem all along. I'm not sure if this is common with many Drupal sites, or only with sites that have a certain amount of traffic and/or installed modules. In this case, we're getting about 500,000 'hits' on the server each month and 350,000 page views. This includes traffic from people - both guests and logged-in users - as well as search engines. Some of the big modules we use:
