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Menasha Public Library

Wed, 2011-02-23 16:32 — georgedamonkey

Description

We recently made the jump from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, and with it a new look and several new modules.

Modules used

  • AddThis
  • Calendar
  • CSS Injector allows me to alter the theme based on url
  • Date
  • Drupal for Facebook links site to facebook app, as well as integrating facebook connect for users, and facebook 'like' to posts
  • Dynamic Display Block provides the rotating content box on home page
  • External Links adds a small icon for email links and external links
  • Flickr integrates flickr with the site
  • Homebox provides a user 'dashboard' - same module used on the new drupal.org website
  • Image Resize Filter allows staff to resize images in content - creates a new image with those dimensions. We were having issues with giant images with forced smaller dimensions. This eliminates that problem. It also has a perk of doing the same thing for remote images and saving them locally. No more broken images weeks later!
  • IMCE
  • Mobile Tools serves up a mobile version of the website for mobile devices, including an option to view the full site anyway
  • Mollom provides spam protection for all forms, including comments
  • Node Clone
  • Nodequeue used for the upcoming events on the front page
  • Panels the front page uses panels to layout content
  • Print allows a print version of each page. also has the ability to email pages
  • Quick Tabs I had a difficult time trying to find a way to show a lot of content in a small space. This worked perfectly for that. In use on the front page, as well as the books dvd's and more page for the catalog search.
  • Site Map
  • Views
  • Webform
  • Wysiwyg
  • Zen used as a base theme. The theme started it's life in photoshop. I then created a custom zen sub-theme based on that photoshop layout.

Comments

Thu, 2011-02-24 08:32 — wjr

wow

Very very nice website! I like it!

Wed, 2011-03-02 05:31 — georgedamonkey

Thanks!!

Thanks!!

Thu, 2011-03-03 10:25 — Mita (not verified)

Congrats on the first D7 Library (that I know of)

I'll second the "very very nice website" comment. Just curious, did you start from D7 or did you move an existing D6 site into D7? We're starting a Drupal7 site from scratch and its good to see that it can be done and done well ;)

Thu, 2011-03-03 20:16 — georgedamonkey

Wow! Thank you so much! I

Wow! Thank you so much!

I actually started with Drupal 5. With each version of Drupal, I redo the theme. Since I started the site, and I've learned much over the years about Drupal, I found it better this time to start from scratch. So, to be honest, I'm not sure how well upgrading from 6 to 7 would go.

Thu, 2011-03-03 15:39 — cburn

Congrats on D7!

Really, a big congrats on D6 to D7! Nice!

Tue, 2011-04-26 21:12 — topeng

Awesome!

Congratulation!... very very nice public library website! ;)

Tue, 2011-05-03 13:19 — Eagle (not verified)

Congrats! I am just starting

Congrats!

I am just starting with Drupal 7. Using some of the modules that you sused: views, panels, calendar, Date, etc. But I am having a difficult time with these modules: encounter a lot of bugs,errors. And the dev site is very slow ( running on IIS). Did these ever happen to you when you develope the site in Drupal 7? Which view&panels version do you use?

Could you share some expereince in using Drupal 7? Much appreciated!

Thanks!

Wed, 2011-06-22 10:33 — georgedamonkey

I use the latest dev versions

I use the latest dev versions of those modules. I have noticed in the past that IIS is very slow. At least when it comes to drupal. Which is why I started using linux years ago. Let me know if you have any specific questions I can help you with.

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