Googled it but didn't find the most desirable results. Anyone know of a list of really good drupal sites? I am trying to get my users to look at other Drupal sites to brainstorm feature requests, instead of just making them up. I found a few, like MTV UK and The Onion, anyone know other popular/famous ones?
On Thursday 29 November 2007 11:30:09 ian@corpwatch.org wrote:
Googled it but didn't find the most desirable results. Anyone know of a list of really good drupal sites? I am trying to get my users to look at other Drupal sites to brainstorm feature requests, instead of just making them up. I found a few, like MTV UK and The Onion, anyone know other popular/famous ones?
Drupal's own gallery: http://drupal.org/handbook/drupal/gallery
The portfolios of a few Drupal development shops: http://www.lullabot.com/work http://pingv.com/portfolio/drupal-websites http://www.raincitystudios.com/portfolio/services/drupal-development http://www.raincitystudios.com/portfolio/services/drupal-theming http://www.trellon.com/project_categories/drupal
More development shops that might have more portfolios to browse through: http://drupal.org/drupal-services
And one more: http://www.dailypaul.com/
I hate to spam - my site is relatively large for Drupal I assume: http://www.centernetworks.com
~500k uniques a month
-- Allen
Jason Flatt wrote:
On Thursday 29 November 2007 11:30:09 ian@corpwatch.org wrote:
Googled it but didn't find the most desirable results. Anyone know of a list of really good drupal sites? I am trying to get my users to look at other Drupal sites to brainstorm feature requests, instead of just making them up. I found a few, like MTV UK and The Onion, anyone know other popular/famous ones?
Drupal's own gallery: http://drupal.org/handbook/drupal/gallery
The portfolios of a few Drupal development shops: http://www.lullabot.com/work http://pingv.com/portfolio/drupal-websites http://www.raincitystudios.com/portfolio/services/drupal-development http://www.raincitystudios.com/portfolio/services/drupal-theming http://www.trellon.com/project_categories/drupal
More development shops that might have more portfolios to browse through: http://drupal.org/drupal-services
And one more: http://www.dailypaul.com/
Quoting "ian@corpwatch.org" ian@corpwatch.org:
Googled it but didn't find the most desirable results. Anyone know of a list of really good drupal sites? I am trying to get my users to look at other Drupal sites to brainstorm feature requests, instead of just making them up. I found a few, like MTV UK and The Onion, anyone know other popular/famous ones?
I didn't see anyone list http://www.newsvine.com/ as one of the more popular sites.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
Maybe Newsvine wasn't listed because it isn't a Drupal site.
jns
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:44 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] List of Drupal Sites?
I didn't see anyone list http://www.newsvine.com/ as one of the more popular sites.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
Quoting Jim Smith jsmith@wate.com:
Maybe Newsvine wasn't listed because it isn't a Drupal site.
Egg on my face, now why did I think so? Hmm... Thanks for the correction.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for several web needs, such as their primary websites, for colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites. The idea is for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want to run their own servers/sites/databases. I have put together a few smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far. So, I making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday. (I believe they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and we are testing Sakai for course management.)
I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. What kind of feedback did you get? Are there are pertinent points not obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth mentioning?
Scalability is also an issue. I don't know the traffic statistics but there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small research groups. I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so. However, those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and others receive much higher traffic than we would.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
- John
I don't have experience with this very implementation, but just adding my 2 cents: Consider presenting Drupal's multisite feature, which gives you the possibility to have multiple sites with one code base. This is very useful in cases where you need many sites with similar configuration, but still you want minimal maintenance costs.
However similar, and sharing one set of modules, you can still initiate the sites with completely different configuration, using Drupal's installation profiles. This way you can create new sites, destined for various tasks, as you mentioned: Departmental, personal, ad-hoc research teams etc.
Performance is obviously an issue, and will always be, but I found that using Drupal's internal caching system, together with server side optimization, and good hardware, can render any Drupal site fast enough.
I think you can find some more accurate statistics and benchmarking in Dries blog.
John Callahan wrote:
The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for several web needs, such as their primary websites, for colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites. The idea is for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want to run their own servers/sites/databases. I have put together a few smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far. So, I making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday. (I believe they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and we are testing Sakai for course management.)
I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. What kind of feedback did you get? Are there are pertinent points not obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth mentioning?
Scalability is also an issue. I don't know the traffic statistics but there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small research groups. I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so. However, those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and others receive much higher traffic than we would.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
- John
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The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for several web needs, such as their primary websites, for colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites. The idea is for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want to run their own servers/sites/databases. I have put together a few smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far. So, I making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday. (I believe they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and we are testing Sakai for course management.)
I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. What kind of feedback did you get? Are there are pertinent points not obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth mentioning?
Scalability is also an issue. I don't know the traffic statistics but there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small research groups. I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so. However, those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and others receive much higher traffic than we would.
The high for drupal.org's hits/month was approaching 50 Mio last November. You probably meant pages/month where drupal.org hat it's maximum in May at 16.5 Mio/month.
So, this is not a problem for Drupal. It is rather a problem for Apache/PHP, MySQL, hardware, hardware organization, etc.
Cheers, Gerhard
John,
I work at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. While we do not have a central CMS, we use Drupal heavily in the Student Affairs division. We run Drupal for standard public web sites, employee portals/intranets and have started using it as a web app framework over the past year replacing legacy ASP apps.
A few things that have helped me a long the way:
1. Test and study contrib modules before installing in prod. Once you start using a module, you are supporting it and it is hard to take it away from end-users 2. Standardize on a theme. We use common custom themes on most departmental sites. The only thing we change is departmental branding. We occasionally change colors and styling for special events (ex: Homecoming Drupal site). 3. Setup and plan for good training for your Drupal content editors. My staff absolutely love Drupal and I think it is partly because we do training and have monthly Drupal user group meetings to discuss new ideas. Users training users.. it is great! 4. Take the time planning your hardware and software infrastructure. 5. Take a look at multisite as others have mentioned. We currently use it to quickly move sites between dev, test and prod. I am considering deploying a Drupal hosted service for our student organizations who need community sites and don't have web expertise or do not want to use free off-campus services. We would use multisite and a common set of themes and modules for this. 6. Make sure you have staff with expertise in apache/php/mysql administration, Drupal install/setup/upgrading (of course) and it will be great to have programmers who know or learn Drupal API so you can take full advantage of Drupal's power. You will probably need to have staff spend time scripting to make Drupal management easier. ex: setting up new sites, removing sites, moving sites to other servers, backups, etc. 7. Look into integrating the LDAP Integration module with your Drupal installs. It works great for us using eDirectory or AD. It is so nice having faculty, staff and students authenticate using their standard username and passwords. Of course, make sure to use an SSL cert. I use a bit of code in my settings.php file to automatically switch to https:// when the login page is presented. 8. Drupal has pretty rapid development, especially compared to commercial solutions, so you have to stay on top of changes, patches, updates, etc.
Thanks! Mark
On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:45 PM, John Callahan wrote:
The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for several web needs, such as their primary websites, for colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites. The idea is for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want to run their own servers/sites/databases. I have put together a few smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far. So, I making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday. (I believe they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and we are testing Sakai for course management.)
I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. What kind of feedback did you get? Are there are pertinent points not obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth mentioning?
Scalability is also an issue. I don't know the traffic statistics but there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small research groups. I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so. However, those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and others receive much higher traffic than we would.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
- John
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information about Drupal for university use. My presentation last Friday was very well received and, from my estimation, Drupal may be in the lead compared to other open source CMS solutions. There are even a few groups using SharePoint that are now asking questions about Drupal possibilities. That is definitely a good sign! Thanks again for your help.
- Jhn
John Callahan wrote:
The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for several web needs, such as their primary websites, for colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites. The idea is for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want to run their own servers/sites/databases. I have put together a few smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far. So, I making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday. (I believe they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and we are testing Sakai for course management.)
I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. What kind of feedback did you get? Are there are pertinent points not obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth mentioning?
Scalability is also an issue. I don't know the traffic statistics but there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small research groups. I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so. However, those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and others receive much higher traffic than we would.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
- John
Is the presentation available over the web (downloading/viewing)?
John Callahan wrote:
Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information about Drupal for university use. My presentation last Friday was very well received and, from my estimation, Drupal may be in the lead compared to other open source CMS solutions. There are even a few groups using SharePoint that are now asking questions about Drupal possibilities. That is definitely a good sign! Thanks again for your help.
- Jhn
John Callahan wrote:
The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for several web needs, such as their primary websites, for colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites. The idea is for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want to run their own servers/sites/databases. I have put together a few smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far. So, I making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday. (I believe they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and we are testing Sakai for course management.)
I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. What kind of feedback did you get? Are there are pertinent points not obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth mentioning?
Scalability is also an issue. I don't know the traffic statistics but there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small research groups. I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so. However, those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and others receive much higher traffic than we would.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
- John
I need to cite a few sources and make a few edits but yes, I will make it available soon.
- John
Zohar Stolar wrote:
Is the presentation available over the web (downloading/viewing)?
John Callahan wrote:
Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information about Drupal for university use. My presentation last Friday was very well received and, from my estimation, Drupal may be in the lead compared to other open source CMS solutions. There are even a few groups using SharePoint that are now asking questions about Drupal possibilities. That is definitely a good sign! Thanks again for your help.
- John
John Callahan wrote:
The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for several web needs, such as their primary websites, for colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites. The idea is for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want to run their own servers/sites/databases. I have put together a few smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far. So, I making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday. (I believe they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and we are testing Sakai for course management.)
I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. What kind of feedback did you get? Are there are pertinent points not obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth mentioning?
Scalability is also an issue. I don't know the traffic statistics but there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small research groups. I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so. However, those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and others receive much higher traffic than we would.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
- John
Thanks John. I look forward to seeing your presentation too.
Mark
On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:06 AM, John Callahan wrote:
I need to cite a few sources and make a few edits but yes, I will make it available soon.
- John
Zohar Stolar wrote:
Is the presentation available over the web (downloading/viewing)?
John Callahan wrote:
Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information about Drupal for university use. My presentation last Friday was very well received and, from my estimation, Drupal may be in the lead compared to other open source CMS solutions. There are even a few groups using SharePoint that are now asking questions about Drupal possibilities. That is definitely a good sign! Thanks again for your help.
- John
John Callahan wrote:
The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for several web needs, such as their primary websites, for colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites. The idea is for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want to run their own servers/sites/databases. I have put together a few smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far. So, I making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday. (I believe they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and we are testing Sakai for course management.)
I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. What kind of feedback did you get? Are there are pertinent points not obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth mentioning?
Scalability is also an issue. I don't know the traffic statistics but there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small research groups. I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so. However, those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and others receive much higher traffic than we would.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
- John
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Add me to the chorus -- looking forward to seeing it as well.
Mark Shropshire wrote:
Thanks John. I look forward to seeing your presentation too.
Mark
On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:06 AM, John Callahan wrote:
I need to cite a few sources and make a few edits but yes, I will make it available soon.
- John
Zohar Stolar wrote:
Is the presentation available over the web (downloading/viewing)?
John Callahan wrote:
Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information about Drupal for university use. My presentation last Friday was very well received and, from my estimation, Drupal may be in the lead compared to other open source CMS solutions. There are even a few groups using SharePoint that are now asking questions about Drupal possibilities. That is definitely a good sign! Thanks again for your help.
- John
John Callahan wrote:
The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for several web needs, such as their primary websites, for colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites. The idea is for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want to run their own servers/sites/databases. I have put together a few smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far. So, I making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday. (I believe they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and we are testing Sakai for course management.)
I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. What kind of feedback did you get? Are there are pertinent points not obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth mentioning?
Scalability is also an issue. I don't know the traffic statistics but there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small research groups. I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so. However, those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and others receive much higher traffic than we would.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
- John
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Bill Fitzgerald ha scritto:
Add me to the chorus -- looking forward to seeing it as well.
me, too.
hi John -
This would come in handy now - any chance you could share this presentatino with us now?
Cheers,
tobias
2008/1/15 Davide Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli michel@ziobudda.net:
Bill Fitzgerald ha scritto:
Add me to the chorus -- looking forward to seeing it as well.
me, too.
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ian@corpwatch.org wrote:
Googled it but didn't find the most desirable results. Anyone know of a list of really good drupal sites? I am trying to get my users to look at other Drupal sites to brainstorm feature requests, instead of just making them up. I found a few, like MTV UK and The Onion, anyone know other popular/famous ones?
Did anyone mention http://www.drupalsites.net/ ?
Pete
i read somewhere that britnety spears' website is Drupal based also.
On 04.Dec.2007, at 06:39 PM, Pete Prodoehl wrote:
ian@corpwatch.org wrote:
Googled it but didn't find the most desirable results. Anyone know of a list of really good drupal sites? I am trying to get my users to look at other Drupal sites to brainstorm feature requests, instead of just making them up. I found a few, like MTV UK and The Onion, anyone know other popular/famous ones?
Did anyone mention http://www.drupalsites.net/ ?
Pete
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Heh, that is my favorite so far.
--ian--
blogdiva@culturekitchen.com wrote:
i read somewhere that britnety spears' website is Drupal based also.
On 04.Dec.2007, at 06:39 PM, Pete Prodoehl wrote:
ian@corpwatch.org wrote:
Googled it but didn't find the most desirable results. Anyone know of a list of really good drupal sites? I am trying to get my users to look at other Drupal sites to brainstorm feature requests, instead of just making them up. I found a few, like MTV UK and The Onion, anyone know other popular/famous ones?
Did anyone mention http://www.drupalsites.net/ ?
Pete
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On Tuesday 04 December 2007 16:01:39 blogdiva@culturekitchen.com wrote:
i read somewhere that britnety spears' website is Drupal based also.
That was provided in Michelle's post:
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites?page=1
i actually read it here :
http://www.thinkinkless.com/taxonomy/term/1
On Dries site they also mentioned jenniferlopez.com.
/ liza
On 04.Dec.2007, at 07:31 PM, Jason Flatt wrote:
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 16:01:39 blogdiva@culturekitchen.com wrote:
i read somewhere that britnety spears' website is Drupal based also.
That was provided in Michelle's post:
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites?page=1
-- Jason Flatt http://www.oadaeh.net/ Father of Six: http://www.flattfamily.com/ (Joseph, 14; Cramer, 12; Travis, 10; Angela; Harry, 7; and William, 12:04 am, 12-29-2005) Linux User: http://www.xubuntu.org/ Drupal Fanatic: http://drupal.org/ -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Just one more: www.openquest.pt
Check the portfolio
On Dec 5, 2007 12:53 AM, blogdiva@culturekitchen.com blogdiva@culturekitchen.com wrote:
i actually read it here :
http://www.thinkinkless.com/taxonomy/term/1
On Dries site they also mentioned jenniferlopez.com.
/ liza
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