Posted by matthewboh on April 14, 2008 at 3:53pm
I'm going to do two different shows at the end of April and in mid-May. I would like to have a sample Drupal site running at my booth to show off Drupal vs. Schoolwires. Here's an example of a Schoolwires web site - http://www.burgettstown.k12.pa.us/btown/site/default.asp. (All for the incredibly low price of $160k per year!) Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
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Here's one we did last
Here's one we did last year:
http://harlemsuccess.org
We have a couple sites launching in the next few weeks that could be a good fit for this as well -- one is a district web presence, and the other is a professional development space for educators with a groups/social networking/collaborative editing component.
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The Burgettstown site is beautiful -- and a real bargain at 160K ;)
It would be awful if school districts could pay less for a web presence and spend more money on supporting teaching and learning.
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Cheers,
Bill
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Hello bonobo.
Congratulations for the great site you made. As I can see you developed the theme using zen. Is your theme available as free software anywhere(because I can't find it)?
I am developing a website for kids (simple educational tasks, games and so) , and I would love to build a theme similar to this.
Thanks for your time
This was done in Drupal?
Was this site actually done in Drupal? How many hours did it take and are you charging an annual fee like SiteWire does? Is it stored on the school district server?
Very impressive site.
Thanks, and 100% Drupal
Yes, this is all Drupal --
The art galleries are built using a flash-based tool, but they are embedded in a core page node type.
WRT hours, I'm not entirely sure, as it was a while back -- it was considerable, especially with the combination of theming and config.
As this is a standard Drupal site, it can be hosted on any server capable of running Drupal -- we generally recommend a LAMP stack.
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Garland looks a heck of a
Garland looks a heck of a lot like that packaged Schoolwires theme. The funny thing for me personally, schoolwires is based out of the State College area (where PSU is located). Here's a custom one we put together for our department's home site, nothing nearly as crazy as Bill's though (that's sexy).
http://elearning.psu.edu/
The limit to the design of your drupal site is the limit of your creativity in designing a CSS / HTML theme.
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http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/
We went live with a Drupal
We went live with a Drupal site for our school about 4 weeks ago. The theme is still based on our old website, so it's not exactly a poster child, but everything under the hood is Drupal. I plan on redoing the theme this summer when those pesky students leave. The two things that have worked out quite nicely using drupal are a simple equipment/lab reservation system using cck/date field/calendar and content aggregation to provide fairly nice pages for activities and athletics by pulling dates from the calendar and articles from news.
http://lincolnlutheran.org/equipment
http://lincolnlutheran.org/activities/athletics/soccer
You might want to take a look at this collection of k-12 schools that are currently using Drupal. If you know of any other schools that should be on this list, let me know and I'll add them (or tag them yourself with drupalschools at http://www.del.icio.us.com).
http://delicious.com/tag/drupalschools
Thanks for sharing this out!
I like the resource calendar for the labs -- nice work there.
RE:
Yeah, schools do get easier in the summertime :)
Cheers,
Bill
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