The new drupal based website for the Dublin Cycling Campaign has just been launched.
http://www.dublincycling.ie/
All feedback is very welcome and if you happen to be interested, the next open meeting is 7pm, Monday 14th September, 2009 in the Smock Alley Café, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. They'll also be sharing a stand with a number of cycling groups at the Electric Picnic in the Global Green area if anyone is passing.
Huge thanks to Stella who answered a considerable number of questions when development was beginning and to the drupal community at large.
Seems Drupal is being used on a number of other bicycle related sites:
http://galwaycycling.org/
http://www.momentumplanet.com/
http://can.org.nz/
http://bikeweek.ie/
http://www.bikescheme.ie/
http://www.missionbicycle.com/
http://www.atlantabike.org/
I'd be curious to know if you hear of any others.
Comments
Great to see more Drupal and
Great to see more Drupal and more Bikes!
Now that Scor hs left Galway, I really should put a bit of effort in galwaycycling.org, but I'm not active at the moment.
Well done,
Alan
Thanks Alan
Thanks Alan,
keep me posted on how you get on with the galwaycycling.org site if you do get back to it. Actually, if you could update the URL on your links page to our new address when you get the chance, that would be great
http://galwaycycling.org/links
PS: Was thinking Niall's site is cycling related too.
http://www.limericktriathlon.com/
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feedback
You wanted some feedback, this is a quick pass of things I noticed first. I hope this is helpful/constructive. Take or little as you like.
The header, with the text and images on front page: http://www.dublincycling.org/
- the text doesn't line up with the images, so the spacing looks "off", esp for "Get Involved"
The pink is only on the sidebar. This is a subjective point of view, but it would be nice to carry the key colour in other parts of the design. For example the jaunty logo at the top.
The URLs are not search engine friendly:
use path_auto and token to control the writing of URLs.
Add some images. Even if you can't get images of Dublin's bicycles, then get images on flickr/creativecommons - images of Dublin or possibly the bicycles. You could also ask people to tag images on flickr with a special tag?
Hide unfinished content, e.g., http://www.dublincycling.org/node/331 and http://www.dublincycling.org/node/325
You're naming people who apparently haven't done work, therefore it looks like the group is disorganized. The dates go back to May as well. It looks like you're naming and shaming, which you may or may not be- but best to keep that to the back-end or hidden?
Link more internally e.g., When you mention "join" on http://www.dublincycling.org/node/330 link to the "Join" page.
thanks for the feedback
Hi Heather,
thanks a million for the feedback. I'll keep you posted on my progress resolving them.
Really appreciated,
Conor
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OT: dublin city cycling site
I suppose you saw this:
http://www.dublincitycycling.ie/
Blogger Sabrina Dent and her partner John Handelaar did this in Drupal, and apparently had a really difficult time of it. (Handelaar started this group). She writes on her blog:
"We are in complete agreement that we are never, ever using Drupal for anything ever again. It was literally hell in a bug-ridden box."
http://www.sabrinadent.com/2009/09/25/site-launch-dublin-city-cycling/
thanks for the reference
Hi Heather,
I was feeling embarrassed not to have know of this site until I realised it's probably only recently been launched. The site looks really well and comes across as being quite positive.
However, the maps only indicate where there are cycle lanes and cycle tracks, which may be of interest to engineers. I think it would be more useful to indicate where it is nice or safe to cycle. Some roads are perfectly fine to cycle along even if there are no road markings at all. And inversely, some of the cycle lanes marked in Dublin are actually more dangerous than if there were no markings at all.
To be honest I can identify with the first half of their comment. Drupal has had a hellish learning curve. If it wasn't for the help from members of the community like Stella, mrfelton and many others, I'd be feeling the the same way too. But I'm really optimistic that all the work that's being going into D7's usability, which you yourself have been helping with :-) will make a huge difference. Though I have to completely disagree with what they say about it being bug-ridden.
Anyway, thanks for getting back to me on other Drupal sites for cyclists,
ConorC
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