Local genre-breaching station KHUM went live with their new site yesterday. Check it out at khum.com.
The KHUM site was one of those long, waxing-and-waning projects of wandering scope and deadline… so it was a bit of a relief to finally see it go live. The site uses Drupal 6 (it's been in the works for so long that it had to go through an upgrade from D5… not fun) and the Station modules, though really only the Station Schedule submodule. (The client wanted to use their own scripts for playlist management, and they don't quite integrate into the rest of the interface very well yet…) I must admit to tweaking the Station Schedule module just a little bit so that it doesn't show the hours between 12:00 AM and 6:00 AM, when the station is DJd by a robot, at the client's request. I also did some PHP 4 compatibility tweaks. (Yes, the hosting company this site is using still hasn't upgraded…) The previous site was mostly a static HTML site from circa 2002, table-based and a bit heavy on animated GIFs.
Initially, it was going to have a bunch of nifty blogging and content sharing features, but they went unused; now it's pulling various feeds from outside blogs and such using Drupal's standard Aggregator module. Other modules in use include Pathologic, CCK, Advertisement, FCKeditor (sigh), and others, along with a little bit of custom module magic for minor things such as the "Now Playing" widget in the left column, which uses JavaScript to update itself every thirty seconds (though it's currently broken since the robot which is supposed to be inserting new songs into the database seems to have died yesterday, and it now looks like they're playing the world's longest Tom Petty song).
The theme is a Zen subtheme (of course), light on images and fairly quick-loading, designed by one of our in-house artists. All programming, theming and initial configuration was done by yours truly, though our client is now doing most of the configuring themselves. By the way, "we" would be Precision Intermedia, a multimedia marketing agency based in northern California. No, not the San Francisco Bay area; the real northern California.