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I thought I'd post our site www.parentsown.co.uk

We set up the site because we have children with health problems and at times have felt very unsupported by the medical professionals, after one too many appointments where we came away feeling like failures as parents we decided we had to do something... Our plan was to set up a website for parents with children with medical problems (primarily gastro problems) to come to look for information, support and advice.

That was how the idea for Parentsown came about, the next problem was how do we do it.... And really this is my reason for posting here because I chose Drupal to do it and I'm so glad I did.

As you will see if you view the site, Parentsown is a very long way from some of the awesome, glitzy and star studded spangly sites in this showcase... I can only long to one day have the knowledge to do a lot of what I see here... But that said I still wanted to post it in case out there there are more people like me.

You see I am no techie I am far far from that, I am also no graphic designer, so basically I didn't know how to build websites nor did I know how to make them look pretty!! When I started out I knew literally nothing, but I bought a book by David Mercer and set off in to the unknown, safe in the knowledge that I was blissfully unaware of what I didn't know and therefore couldn't get scared...

I've just completed a conversion of http://www.gordonparks.org/ from a half-HTML/half-PHP cobbled-together site to a Drupal site. Gordon Parks Elementary School has been a client for a couple of years. We inherited a very pretty but horribly constructed site from a designer who disappeared after setting it up. It had a rudimentary CMS where the school administrators could add news items, job openings, and teacher bios, but that was about all.

The school is a non-profit and their website is aimed at donors and potential donors. Because they were unable to update their own content, they had to rely on us to update it for them. Last year they had no budget for us, and we gave them a lot of free work as a result.

This year I wanted to learn to use Drupal, and decided to recreate (and clean up) the existing Gordon Parks site as my training project. That way, I didn't have to charge the client for my learning time, and they got a site they can update themselves.

It took me a long time to figure out how to do everything. I bought several Drupal books and consulted drupal.org constantly. I don't know anyone else who uses Drupal, so I was just winging it most of the time. Fortunately, I have lots of CSS experience, so the theming was not too hard.

I just launched our new site done in Drupal on January 1. I've had some good feedback from library patrons and am pleased with my staff's enthusiasm. Thanks to the module maintainers and the rest of the Drupal community who answered questions for me along the way. http://kinderhooklibrary.org

open4energy started life as a live resume' for an out of work sales engineer in April 2009

Thanks to the simplicity of implementing Drupal, the readily available themes and 3rd party modules it did not take long to have a home page and my thoughts on open source energy saving for data centers written up and published.

Thanks to clean url's I was able to make a reasonable effort at search engine optimization and give the page an url that made actually made sense to Google and others.

I knew that Cacti, an open source project for graphing time series data, offered possibilities for data center energy management. It took quite some effort to get Cacti working, so being a reasonable open source citizen I decided to write up what I had learnt as a tutorial for others to follow. The solutions to the issues were all available if you searched diligently, but this brought them together, and addressed some specific issues for Ubuntu.

To my surprise really, I am an engineer of limited capabilities, the pages generated a steady stream of readers and reader appreciation. I take no credit for the stability of the site, 1and1 do a fine job of supporting a Drupal install, and it was clear that the pages were being served reliably.

Hello!

I just launched a website for a local law firm, built on Drupal. There are a few nice features, such as the home page flash movie, powered by a Views-generated XML file running MonoSlideShow.

Here's my writeup about the project: http://www.headlinercreative.com/featured-project/law-offices-schneider-...
Here's the link to the live site: http://windycitylawgroup.com/

Hi,
I am running iTech7.com on Drupal 6. Its a Technology site run by me and my friends.
Its using Drupal for my site since Drupal 5.
The first day when I say Drupal on opensourcecms, i was carried away by its clean and neat look and ease of administration.
Then I took a look at the modules, seeing the BIG list of modules, I decided to use Drupal.

The theme currently used is Pixture Reloaded and RootCandy Dark (admin).