January meetup notes

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Posted by dennypenny on January 25, 2010 at 6:33pm
Last updated by pianomansam on Mon, 2010-01-25 20:38

SAM OLTZ

Ridge Point (Oct. 2008 - Oct. 2009; first Drupal site)

  • Blueprint CSS theme (columns are really easy)
  • Drupal 5
    • Chose Drupal because they wanted lots of editors and to control access. Online giving portion, gift store (nixed from launch b/c trying to figure out internal stuff)
    • Ubercart 2.0 for Drupal 6 was still in beta
      • wasn't going to be stable enough for Ridge Point's need
    • No security updates since launch

  • Wanted a fancy menu so their drop-downs link to static pages; if they ever want to change the location of the page, admin needs to go in and manually change code
  • Module to do transcoding (Flash video for now. Might convert to CDN2video)
  • Video filter - plug in URL and it turns it into embed code
  • Web form module
    • stores emails in a database and get an email copy
    • don't use any of the built-in contact form because those aren't stored in a database

  • Organic groups
    • As a group, you can subscribe to any changes, comments, contact emails, etc.

    Flow-Rite (heavy industry site)

  • Drupal 5
    • Ubercart still in beta when project started
    • Wanted different price points depending on site role
      • Drupal 5 didn't really support that; Ubercart 2 has a couple different modules to do this
        • Owners want to make the site international; Drupal 5 kind of handles this, but Drupal 6 does a better job
    • CCK
    • More business to business usage; designers had to figure out how to cater to devoted buyers

    FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) Resources

  • Drupal 5
    • Will turn it into Drupal 6
    • Wanted advanced, faceted search, semantic web
      • Wasn't sure if they wanted to run APACHE solar server
      • Wasn't sure about Java app
        • Since it's raw php, takes a while
        • can't easily do Boolean search (or, not)

    FCA Campus 101

  • Drupal 5
  • used queue (node) so different results returned based on user role (middle school, high school, college)
  • carousel
  • Active directory so staff could create content without having to create separate logins
  • Loves: admin menu - works with latest version of drupal 6

    • Better Weight for Me

  • FB connect menu syncs well with Drupal 6
  • Ajax
  • Javascript
  • Use Disqus module on site
    • Can log in via Twitter and other sites
    • Echo similar to Disqus
  • Forums module
    • Threaded or flat commenting

    CARL FURROW

    Red Cross GR (first Drupal site)

  • Drupal 6
  • Based off 960 grid
  • Four content areas on front page
  • Banner image
    • CCK file fields
    • jquery rotator

  • Event calendar (calendar app with views module)
  • Web forms

    • Custom templates for some of the pages based on content needs
    • Loved: module community

      • ANDREW

      Livewire Networks (data broker)

    • Lots of custom CSS on front page
    • Quote section
      • all in ajax

    • Customer portal

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    • Sales force
      • Sales force module, but nothing for trading info back and forth; lots of PHP development
      • thought about selling module, but Sales Force doesn't like this sort of stuff so keep changing their stuff
        • have had to change the module four times in eight months
        • has to rewrite the call scripts

      Grand Rapids, MI

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