[drupal-docs] Re: [drupal-infrastructure] screenshots

[Laura Scott]

I think the gallery idea is great. And if there is server space now, I 
would like to suggest expanding the pool of screenshots. This could be a 
very large, visually focused presentation of the various looks and 
applications of Drupal.

The phptemplate, drupal version, etc. could be seperate terms, and 
therefore subordinate galleries.

I suggest this as ways to help promote Drupal, and stimulate ideas. I 
suspect a lot of people would make it a regular habit to browse through 
a more comprehensive gallery. And seeing is believing -- there's much 
more diversity of Drupal installations out there than is reflected in 
the tiny little showcase or in the contributed themes.

Would this be something that anyone could post, to showcase their own 
site? I don't know. If such posts went into moderation, for review by a 
pool of folks, we could keep this as open as possible while avoiding 
spam and defacing.

I think we would all benefit if there were more than a dozen or two 
always-featured sites in the gallery. A handful of very high quality 
sites create one impression, but a gallery with scores (or even 
hundreds?) of sites would reveal to n00bs the flexibility and diversity 
and sheer numbers of Drupal applications.

I submit that there is a great demand for this. Months ago, every site 
that I administered at the time received a lot -- often upwards of 100 
hits a day -- from the "Sites that Use Drupal" page that displayed the 
Drupal module's ping-ins. People want to see what others are doing with 
the software. I don't know what the plans are for that page, but this 
gallery approach could expand upon fulfilling the curiosity factor 
visitors to Drupal.org clearly have.

Laura
www.pingV.com


Bèr Kessels wrote:

>Kobus, all, 
>
>I would say that it needs to be unbiased. in fact I would plead as much as 
>possible to stay with facts: 'uses phptemplate, drupal 4.6 etc' 'foo is 
>achieved with foo.module and an extra theme' stuff liek that.
>Rather then 'this pleasent looking site uses drupal to achieve great visual 
>beauty' etc.
>
>And we shuold probably switch on comments too? And maybe a random image block 
>that takes random picks in the frontpage instead of that collage? inkscape 
>has something like this for example. I like it a lot. 
>
>Op woensdag 14 september 2005 13:29, schreef Kobus Myburgh:
>  
>
>>Ber,
>>
>>This is indeed a great innovation here. I'd indeed be happy to volunteer on
>>some of the descriptions.
>>
>>Some guidelines with regards to posting notes about the screenshots?
>>Personal bias can play a very big role in comments. I assume that personal
>>biases should be avoided? Is there somewhere a page on Drupal that you know
>>of with guidelines to this?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Kobus
>>
>>    
>>
>>>>>ber at webschuur.com 9/14/2005 1:02:02 PM >>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>Hello
>>
>>recently I bumped into the great page
>>http://drupal.org/handbook/drupal/gallery
>>
>>I thought a couple of things rather odd about this page/
>>We have a websites gallery which is empty, The images are hosted remotely
>>and it is hard to maintain, or to view bigger versions of the screenshots.
>>
>>I needed t oget a list of good examples for a presenation, so I ran a
>>script that grabbed screenies. (khtml2png)
>>
>>And uploaded tham all in the gallery on drupal.org
>>http://drupal.org/handbook/drupal/gallery
>>
>>For the docs team: Maybe it is a good idea to give some general info with
>>each screenshot?
>>
>>For the infrastructure team:
>>Can we please open up image submissions and place them in a queue. Then
>>once in a while we can pick out the good submissions (with proper sized
>>screenies and good subscriptions of nice sites) enable those nodes and
>>delete all rubbish?
>>--
>>[ Infrastructure | http://lists.drupal.org/listinfo/infrastructure ]
>>    
>>
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