Posted by najibx on May 24, 2007 at 7:16am
We know there's list of great website in the world that use Drupal. However, it would be cool to know what's the situation is like here in Malaysia. Which websites uses open CMS. If yes, which one.
- Private companies
- Government/agencies
- Political bodies
- Entertainment Radio/TV
- Entertainment newspaper/magazine
- Universities/education
- etc.
From here maybe we can see where's our strength .... or where's our direction. Do Malaysian companies/organizations stay away from open source and rather pay thousands of ringgit? Hmm ...
let's create a list.
Cheers ....
Start with ...
- Private companies
- www.dataigolf.com - The Golf Club Datai Bay in Langkawi >> Joomla (Sorry, I used Joomla before, now I am a drupalian :-)
- Political bodies
- www.parti-pas.org - Parti PAS >> Joomla
Comments
Private company
www.aifa.com.my <- telecommunication
www.kedaimaya.com <- biz
blog: www.simplybuzz.com
project: www.techKiSS.com
Correction
Parti-pas.org used PHP-Nuke and it went down
http://pas.org.my brand-new website uses Joomla
http://harakahdaily.net - Joomla
I heard mKportal or mKforum (?) is used for a very popular Wira car club
Muslim Consumer (PPIM) now uses e107
http://www.muslimconsumer.org.my/ppim/main.php
Corporate website
www.powerq.com.my - Power-Q Sendirian Bhd (PowerQ) is a Malaysian owned company actively involved in specialized engineering services and technical training.- Developed based on Drupal 5.2 with bunch of modules.
-najib -
-najibx -
<a href="http://www.successideaweb.com>Drupal web developer | designer in Malaysia
Government website - JPJ
http://www.jpj.gov.my - Joomla
I wanted to get information on how to get an international driving permit. Search in google, not found JPJ website but ironically through a blog by one guy which somehow has link to JPJ. Poor JPJ website ... It should have been in top rank!
Anyway, it's based on Joomla. Clearly ...daaa. I assume that many more government websites are based on Joomla.
DRUPAL :
http://chelah.cara-cerna.com/ - personal website of chelah. He has a project, http://mbi.adufly.com -- Anda boleh mengadu kepada Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh dengan menggunakan sms. Dunno if this website is his personal project or endorsed by Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh.
-najib -
-najibx -
<a href="http://www.successideaweb.com>Drupal web developer | designer in Malaysia
komplimentari
www.komplimentari.com - Based on Drupal 5.2, basically a plain Drupal with Danger4k themes found at drupal.org and no custom modules. Heavily made use of PHP input format all over the place and I really have fun developing it without touching any source file ;)
Btw, is there any plan for www.drupal.net.my or something similar ? I think we really need one to help boosting Drupal adoption among the locals. Joomla folk has one and they look quite active.
Drupal.org.my
Drupal.org.my
DrupalMalaysia.org
DrupalMalaysia.org.my
Even though I personally run it as initiative, I dont profit much other than what I charged for commercial companies and the rest is mostly non-profit and free service like we did for
http://epekak.net.my/online (I dont have access to the domain, so had to just use the ugly bluemarine theme)
*If you want to create drupal.net.my, go ahead, the domain name registration requires additional RM80 just for the .my, and may or may not requires company or at least personal `Enterprise' (SSM/ROC) you can obtain for RM50
*I recommend that you obtain a `reseller account' with Skali.net
Hello world, I've been in
Hello world,
I've been in this group for quite a while but have been dormant ever since. I'll start by listing a few sites I'm managing which runs on Drupal:
University (All free downloaded Drupal themes. I'm not a designer :p)
Note: These are all websites of departments under HELP University College, HELP's main website does not run on Drupal.
www.adphelp.net
www.bpsych.net
www.careersenseathelp.net
www.hmchelp.net
Private company
www.theswitch.com.my - Converted from a semi-CMS
Organization
www.psima.org - Running on Joomla for now. I took over and converted it to Drupal. Changes not live yet.
Thats all for now :)
well done edkwh
Hope to see more active in this community and our future drupal development !
it's fine if you are not a designer/themer. Drupal is damn good in isolating theming and coding ...isn't ?
Unlike joomla ...which took me several hours just to change a row table from black to white! or change width !
check this out : http://www.successideaweb.com/en/web-design/high-quality-ready-made-them...
Good design is one thing. Know how to 'convert' to Drupal theme is another ...for PHPtemplate engine that is.
-najibx -
<a href="http://www.successideaweb.com>Drupal web developer | designer in Malaysia
-najibx -
<a href="http://www.successideaweb.com>Drupal web developer | designer in Malaysia
Thanks Najib :) Yeah, having
Thanks Najib :)
Yeah, having the backend and frontend separated really makes life easier. But I have not used Joomla before, so not sure how different things are.
Cool, you have a collection of paid templates fro Drupal? I prefer to source from oswd.org and freecsstemplates.org and convert them to Drupal ;)
I heard that with Drupal 6, converting CSS based themes will be so much easier. Hopefully, that will spur more designers to contribute more themes for Drupal.
KNow any good RoR site?
I was told www.mampu.gov.my is built with RoR - Ruby on Rail.
but even www.ror.org.my is still under construction.
Plone wasn't that widely implemented either. at the the http://www.foss.org.my is using plone, being maintained by my new friend Khairil.
-najibx -
<a href="http://www.successideaweb.com>Drupal web developer | designer in Malaysia
-najibx -
<a href="http://www.successideaweb.com>Drupal web developer | designer in Malaysia
RoR is an MVC framework
It's like building a web application from scratch with RoR. However, RoR has a bunch of tools to ease building web application. See, RoR is used to build 'web application' which is not merely 'website'. On the other hand, Drupal is used to build 'content'. And Drupal itself is a web application. Technically, we can build another Drupal with RoR. So, in term of application level, Drupal is higher than RoR.
Take a look at the RoR creator's Campfire.
Currently I'm using a .Net version of rails - Monorail
Drupal as a framework
I did use Drupal as a framework, after being frustrated by RoR, Django, web.py and some homegrown PHP/Python solution ;)
I wrote about it sometimes ago, it's in Malay:-
Drupal sebagai framework Part 1 (Intro)
Drupal sebagai framework Part II (Form API)
Only Drupal menu system (for dispatcher), Form API and the ACL (user.module) system were being used. Everything else were my own code implemented as modules. It's always my dream to see something like Drupal being built on Python but I guess none in the foreseeable future.
Python CMSes
Take a look at Plone and Skeletonz. However, Drupal still top the chart. You can link Drupal module to python code, I guess.
Plone
Plone is to big, at least for my requirement. Ironically, Plone was the reason why I found Drupal few years ago. Being tired fighting with Plone/Zope permission system, I search for other CMS and found Drupal. Skeletonz plugin on the other hand, is more content oriented compare to Drupal modules where I can bent to my liking to behave like a framework.
It's the framework
So, language doesn't matter. It is the framework that matters. For me I don't like PHP but Drupal is a great framework. I think you're more of a developer type. Maybe an MVC could be a better framework for you.
I also used Drupal mainly as
I also use Drupal mainly as a web application framework, creating internship application system, student information systems, nomination application, and also a billing system. I tried picking up RoR but decided to fall back to Drupal as so many features come free out-of-the-box - user management, content management, etc. Though there are RoR components that provide these features, it just doesn't feel tied together, IMHO.
Best of all it's Drupal's strength which are it's solid codebase, API and extensible modular system. Like what k4ml said, if it's not available for Drupal, write custom modules. It's easy to write modules that will hook to the various components of Drupal.
I think Khalid from 2bits had an interesting take from Robert Fabian, a management and system consultant from Canada which applies to this discussion. Have a read: Drupal as a web applications framework: Should Drupal target mainly developers?l
Few other local sites using
Few other local sites using Rails:
www.ravejoint.com
www.geotude.com
www.haze.net.my
Hello.
It seems that this thread is not updated for a long time. The list:
Hello
Appreciate your interest to post a new comment. I believe we, the Drupalians in Malaysia are sincerely busy or they might be too deeply involve in their own commitments to their work and family.
Malaysian Drupalians should get together. I use Drupal for my Master final year project at Univ Malaya (http://e-music.my/FYP/). My final year project was finished within one semester. My supervisor said that I was the first person to use Drupal to present a system. It's not a lot can be done for the website because of the time constraint.
I continue to promote Drupal to my sister's driving school (http://rakanehsan.my/). Again, I'm too busy to get ready for PhD at UM.
Certainly, we'll do our best to show efforts in keeping this thread alive. I'm thinking about the possibility to meet up with Malaysia Drupalians :-)
Wow so long got updated
Sorry for the late reply.
We have our Facebook Group here : https://www.facebook.com/groups/drupalmy
And we are on our way in building the new portal for Drurians (Malaysian Drupalistas) here : http://drupal.org.my
Hope will hear from you again!
Thank You for Facebook Group and a New Portal
Appreciate your effort. Please feel free to meet up at Multimedia University or University Malaya.
Any chance of getting all the Malaysian Drurians for a run? See: http://www.kl-marathon.com/users/register
Please inform :)
Meetup
We have our casual meetup usually the first Wednesday every month. Announcements usually at Facebook page or drupal.org.my. :P