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MarketStone's picture

i just found You i should of looked more before starting a group

Community Sites are the future. there is no one on the Net yet compared to what it will be in ten years. Giving Your citizens the tools they need to succeeded will be HOT! So stay the course!

This is my Economic Development Community site for North And North East Portland, Oregon
http://www.marketstone.com/nnepdx/

There are many dynamics to a community site that are hard to compete with. Like i can add business that are not even on the Net yet unlike google or city-search who just gleans information.

A few of our highlights.

  1. Owned by the People.
  2. Democracy.
  3. All accounting has to be shown.
  4. The epages are business only in the NNE.
  5. Art Market to help finance.
  6. We have an editor who is accountable to the citizens.
  7. Free advertising for our users.
  8. You can post looking for work and want to hire.
  9. Can teach the basics of money management, payroll, taxes.

What this does.

  1. When owned by the people, people are more inclined to help.
  2. The majority decides.
  3. Works to wipe out corruption.
  4. A directory shows all sites over what a search gives You.
  5. Everyone loves Art. (i think:).
  6. Having a person responsible goes miles past city-search and craigslist.
  7. Drupal makes it easy to do a rotating view of all business for a free ads block.
  8. Again go drupal with cck and views!
  9. i think people starting out in business, payroll seams to be scary when it is just simple math.

Great Job everyone! More Later, Ran

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The majority

Adam S's picture

The majority decides.

Actually, it's been said that this is the worst form of government. We are against tyranny especially the tyranny of the majority.

That being said, how did you do the alphabetical listing on the top of the page.

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Hi

MarketStone's picture

Quick Tabs

If i'm a Gay person in the most conservative town in America. Should the rest of the town conform to me or should i respect the Majority?

How do you get the first

Adam S's picture

How do you get the first letter in a view with quick tabs?

If i'm a Gay person in the most conservative town in America. Should the rest of the town conform to me or should i respect the Majority?

You should respect everybody! The foundation of the empire is not the clergy (like in some small American towns in the bible belt), the wealthy (like in New York City), a family line (like in Texas), a majority (like at the People's food co-op in Portland, OR -- I can't believe how rude they were to me), or under a totalitarian regime, wherever that happens. The foundation of the empire is the individual. Hence, the importance of respecting everybody for being themselves not what a bunch of people tell them to be!

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
--Thomas Jefferson

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Michelle's picture

You can get that individual letter thing with the glossary view.

Going to ignore the rest of the totally off topic stuff. :P

Michelle

Have you seen this?

mwoodwar's picture

I am currently in Estonia, and stumbled on a fascinating project that might interest you. http://communitytools.info

Mark

Letter

MarketStone's picture

It is just a quick tab and You have to manually enter the business to the node. i wanted to get the look first. i am working on the view now. i will have to make a separate view for each letter and some profile fields. i think views has add prefix and suffix to ad the icons. i liked the views glossary example and i might still use it, it just needs some theming. i think we have around 150,000 residents and maybe 40,000 business the size should not be to over whelming.

communitytools is a step in the right direction. If You can add a way for people to make money, You have to admit that kind of branding is pretty tough to beat.

Good Luck everyone. Oops i do not believe in luck, anyway great work!

Search

MarketStone's picture

Then to do a quick hack on the search until i have time to do it right with the search by page module by Ms Hodgdon ( If i was ten years younger and she was not spoken for i would ask her to marry me she is Brilliant! ; ) on lines 429 of search.module i just added the div tags from the epages col1, col2, col3 so they come up first in a search.

$tags = array('col1' => 25,
                   'col2' => 25,
          'col3' => 25,
                   'h1' => 15,
                   'h2' => 13,
                   'h3' => 13,
                   'h4' => 10,
                   'h5' => 9,
                   'h6' => 6,
                   'u' => 3,
                   'b' => 3,
                   'i' => 3,
                   'strong' => 3,
                   'em' => 3,
                   'a' => 10);

make sure You reindex the search after doing this.
Ran

Thank you for that

Adam S's picture

Thank you for that information.

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