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TammysRecipes.com: Our 3 Year Drupal Adventure

We recently re-launched my wife's "Recipe Blog" http://www.TammysRecipes.com and I thought it would be a great opportunity to reflect on our experience with Drupal as well as detailing some of our miss-steps. Hopefully our feedback can be useful to the community, especially those on the fence in regards to using Drupal (jump in!) as well as those just beginning a Drupal website (learn from out mistakes!).

After a week or so of learning drupal and making everything work, I am almost ready to "officially" launch the site. Actually, all that's left is moving it to a faster server (godaddy is too slow.)

The idea came from watching Family Guy, and hearing Peter Griffin rant about things that really grind his gears. I've been using that phrase every since the episode originally aired, and decided to make a site out of it.

www.bertieblackman.com

Bertie Blackman is an Australian singer/song writer.

I'm looking to launch at http://www.jstroke.com and wondered if the Drupal community that I admire, respect, and fear (at least their opinions of my measly site...) could give me some insight into what i can do better.

NYC.is (http://nyc.is/), New York City's first social news site, launched this summer. I am extremely grateful to the Drupal community for all the great modules that have allowed me to put the site together.

Goals:

The goal was for the site to be kind of like a localized New York City version of Digg or Reddit. Rather than using the editor curator approach -- like Huffington Post -- all the users of the site are New Yorkers that submit NYC-related stories and vote up and down on them to get them to the front page. The site also allows users to publish their own blog posts into the news stream, so it also has the potential to become a place for community journalism.

Modules:

Admin Menu
CCK
Views
Drigg
Image API
ImageCache
Login Toboggan
FCK Editor
Nice Menus
Quick Tabs
Pathauto
Captcha
Tagadelic
User Karma
Extra Voting Form­s
Voting API

We also used one custom module (created by ivanSF) that allowed for the node type "story" to be automatically entered into the channel of upcoming drigg-node types, which are referred to as "scoops." The beauty of this feature is that it allows a New Yorker with an interesting/important story to use our platform for both publishing and distribution, rather than having to put together their own blog and regularly update it.

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