Show off your Drupal site

We all know - Drupal Forums look great (http://drupal.org/node/56127).

Now, I would like to find out how good the Drupal based Blogs can be made. If you have a really good looking drupal Blog, post it here please!

Eddie

In a NUTSHELL
Pangr.org is a social networking website for the revival and preservation of minority minority languages.

Feedback/comments/criticism welcome :)

Some modules used
Fbconnect
Soundmanager
Audio module
GetID3
Save & Edit
Fivestar

109 word BLURB
Pangram is a social network for reviving and preserving minority languages by means of collaborative and participative efforts. By harnessing the openness of the internet, social networks and the proliferation of networked devices, the possibility of preventing further loss of language diversity is greater than ever. As spoken word comes before literacy; yet is often the most ignored element; the site aims to provide an intriguing audio based platform that encourages the less fluent to engage, learn and connect with native speakers. It hopes to bridge the gap brought about by dominating languages and prevent languages from vanishing entirely whilst adding to a growing archive of spoken word.

One minute VIDEO
Available here: http://www.vimeo.com/11649407

WEBSITE
Website available here http://pangr.org/

ABOUT

Here it jolly well is.

First Drupal based site for me - a real headache until I'd partially got my head around the holy trinity of CCK, Views and Imagecache. In fact, it took me ages to realise that 90% of what I needed to do is related to those three.

And just when I thought I was on the home straight it was time for the bag of hurt that is moving from a local to remote environment (permissions bother, .htaccess wranging, clean url bonkersness).

If you like that sort of thing, grab a look at my frankly hilariously amateur style.css file. If I knew then what I know now etc...

Arasan Chip Systems Inc. is a leading provider of Total Semiconductor IP Solutions with international offices all over the world. We were approached for revamping its corporate website which would help them manage their vast content easily. Initially there were lots of discussion as to what cms was to be used. Finally we decided to build it using Drupal looking at the flexibility and the modular approach that Drupal provides.

Challenges faced
The old website of Arasan was using MSSQL as the database. We had to migrate about 9500 users into the new website with the profile information, their newsletter subscriptons along with the records related to their interest of the products. We had to write custom scripts to finish this task.
The other challenging task of this project was the integration between the Drupal and the NetSuite CRM used by Arasan. We would be soon releasing a module which was built to achieve integration for NetSuite CRM. This custom built module would capture leads from the website and the push them into the CRM which is one of the primary requirements of the client. We are in the process of cleaning up this module and will release it once it is done.

This week we launched our new site FastportPassport.com selling emergency passport services. Our company works with the U.S. Department of State to issue, renew, replace, or modify passports in as little as 24 hours.

The site is built on Drupal 6 core and uses Ubercart to handle the e-commerce. Most modules in use are Ubercart modules intended to simplify Ubercart for the user, and work towards increasing conversion rates. This means no review screens, no cancel buttons, and overall fewer clicks for the user.

Please see The Oriental Martial Arts College world headquarters website.

The revamp of OMACworld was brought about due to the old site being a basic "billboard" style site that was very difficult to update and maintain. I chose to use Drupal as I thought it would be easiest for our mostly non-technical school owner to be able to use (although I haven't gotten him to do anything more than write a single blog post so far...).

I've used CCK and Views to create branch locations, class schedules, and lists of masters/instructors. Also used the Event module to create a couple of different kinds of events (Camps, Tests, Competitions). Used Nice Menus to create easily modifiable menus. Currently almost no custom coding required.

Future work includes:
* using carousel/slide show for
** shortening the current static images that link to the discipline pages
** adding "excitement" to the current stories instead of basic blocks
* Fixing the carousel with the videos to look correct
* adding Ubercart-based webstore to allow for event registrations (this is taking a lot of work, because it needs event, web form, and UC)
* modifying the Location CCK content type to handle our international schools (currently using things like US Zip and US Phone, which precludes inserting international addresses)