Customer
KOALA Foundation www.koalafoundation.org.au
Formed in 1992 as the Kids Oncology and Leukemia Action group, KOALA Foundation is run by parents and carers of children who are being, or have been treated for cancer.
Client Requirements
The existing KOALA foundation website was a basic static HTML site updated on an infrequent basis. The clients main requirements for the new site were a simple news publishing system as well as an image gallery, pdf downloads & video content all of which they could update themselves.
CCK & Views - Using the sitemap as a guide all content types were constructed and then the pages created using views.
FCKeditor - A stripped back version of FCKeditor was used to allow the client to insert lists, bold, italic & underlined text aswell as heading formatting.
Custom Breadcrumbs - Used to improve on drupals basic breadcrumbs.
FileField - Required for the uploading of pdf's & also for uploading flv's used in video content.
Bénin Tours is based on a complex multi-level taxonomy + some Views using arguments. It also uses Ubercart module that lets user built their own "Travel-plan".
As a Drupal developer for this project, I've provided the key features below :
biboo.net is my current Drupal personal playground, 100% French. It is the successor of nekodesign.net.
Its goal is to provide free Drupal screencasts, theming tips & tricks and CSS tutorials for Drupal beginners.
A very quick custom design for a new client married to a budget.
D6.11, Thickbox for user login and googlemaps popups. Some jQuery effects for sliding the sidebar down with the viewport when one scrolls down the page. Just trying to give him as many quick and effective tricks for as little time spent on my part as possible.
Smart Ideas (www.ideas-smart.com) is a community Web site for sharing smart ideas. Here are several examples of type of content that is welcome to be shared.
Doing things better, faster and/or more effectively by leveraging certain laws of physics, chemistry etc. For example, the article Perfect beef steak advises to warm up the beef to 60ºC in the oven and then fry quickly. This way, the beef remains much more juicy and tender than when cooking it the traditional way.
Certain “hidden” knowledge that might be helpful sometimes. The article Defense against overbilling lawyers gives advice what you can do if you receive bloated invoice from a lawyer.
Grandma’s good ideas about how to do things simply just utilizing stuff we have in house. The article about repelling mosquitoes tells you how to keep mosquitoes out of your house just using clover.
Preferably, the contributed articles should explain the principles behind the smart ideas. The readers can then adopt them more easily to their situation.
If you have clever ideas in other areas than Web site design and implementation, you are welcome to publish them on Smart Ideas.