WoW guild website powered by Drupal

This is the first site I have attempted with Drupal, and as such I am sure some things were not done in the standard or proper way, but I just wanted to show what was possible using this platform. The deco theme was used and modified to our liking, so the end result is what you are seeing.

http://www.gcguild.net

The main things on this site are:

• drupal
• vbulletin - We already have an established forum, and it seems much more robust than drupal's offering. So that is going to stay in place.
• eqdkp - Not visible to anyone except who adds raids and who got what loot, but the database feeds the "latest loot" link javascript call

The main thing that brings traffic on the site (aside from our forum) is probably the user blogs, and then right after that the video section. I was a bit confused at first how to organize the sites content with drupal. Taxonomy is not really used at all except for the image gallery because it is required. I couldn't think of a real reason to use it since our content is so limited and specific. Boss kills, recruiting, and general announcements of things the guild is doing is pretty much a complete summary of what gets posted. Instead, I've used the book module to organize the content. The name of the raid instance is the book title, the boss kill "story" content type articles get added to the book as pages.

For the videos, I didn't see anything similar to what I wanted for videos offered by drupal, so I just do a HTML snippet for the video pages for the divx web player to load. On each video page I have put a Fivestar rating so people can rate the movies that get put up. Comments as well since sometimes people ask about how a particular boss is done, or what music is used in a video.

Itemstats does the mouseover items. I don't like linking to outside sites aside from the initial item pull or loading of scripts.

Optional Modules Installed:

• Blog Add-ons
• Re: Comment subjects
• Content Construction Kit (CCK)
• FCKeditor
• Fivestar
• Global Redirect
• Google Analytics
• Image
• Image Assist
• Lightbox2
• Nodetype
• Pathauto
• Token
• Views
• Voting API
• XML Sitemap

I would like to post ventrilo recordings and other things involving audio, so hopefully the Audio module starts working for Drupal 6 soon. The more I mess with this, the more I wish I knew how to program. There is such a wealth of information available from the WoW Armory in structured XML format that could be fed into a mysql table. A roster that is built from a scheduled cron job every few days would be one thing that could be made to look very nice with classes and specs separated out. I guess a positive thing of more people using drupal for their guild website is more utilities like that being developed.

Suggestions and feedback is welcome. Just thought I would share what I was able to do with Drupal.