Show off your Drupal site

We launched this baby about a month ago. It is build to Connect German Canadians in Vancouver, Victora and elsewhere in British Columbia. Most of the modules are default (some hacks here and there).

I love creating new sites using Drupal, such a flexible solution. I was so impatient, i could not wait for v4.5. Hopefully I will upgrade as soon as it is available. therefore I am not going to make much customization on adsensed.com yet. Just wanted to announce that you can be a part of community as well.


Thanks again to Drupal community!

I just received word that my site, which just "officially" launched last week (following a month-long beta period), will be featured on CNN Headline News' "Internet Buzz" segment tomorrow.

:-)

Hi - this is my first post here. I've installed Drupal on two sites and will install it for a third.

http://www.saveourcommunity.us -- an actual site

http://www.riceball.com/drupal -- my personal site (pretty dead)

and I intend to implement the following site with Drupal:

http://www.riceball.com/montebelloashiya.org/

with this layout (warning - fugly first draft here):

http://www.riceball.com/montebelloashiya.org/samples/homepagemockup.png

Now, onto my comments.

About me: I'm just a guy installing and customizing Drupal. I know PHP well, and have programmed for a long time. And in case you're wondering: yes, I'm going to write some modules if I continue to use the software.

Things I like about Drupal: the extensible plug-in architecture; the built-in features you get with install, especially the navigation hierarchy; the taxonomies; and active developer community. I think Drupal is awesome.

Things I dislike about Drupal: not a great fit for the last project listed above; weak support for "CMS"ey "brochure sites"; most of the layouts.

I will start with the layout. I just don't like the three column PHP Nuke style layout. To deal with this, I'm using phptemplate to implement the SOC pages. It's got it's qualities, the main one being that I don't need to learn that much about the templating system. Still, the three column layout is pretty much wired into Drupal.

For starters, I am new at CMS's, even though I have been doing HTML based web sites since 1997. The sites are using the included themes. Either I find themes I can download online, or I will just have to figure out how to design them. On one site, I have three CMS sites that are for different reasons.

1. John Muir Alumni Drum Association - based in Pasadena California, a very successful drum corp feature students and alumni of several Pasadena schools.
http://www.ymp.net/jmada/forever/

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