The non profit site I've been working with for the past year has finally soft-launched their site. Spoons Across America is an organization that provides information and programs about food and nutrition for schools, families, and community organizations. Congratulations to the folks at Spoons.
On the web design/development side, the site relies heavily on CSS for layout and design and uses both Movable Type and Drupal on the back end. We'll be looking to develop the Network area further in future releases with the help of the upcoming 4.5 release of Drupal.
So check it out and let me know what you think.
Comments
09/15/04 @ 19:29
Curious -- any reason you didn't just use Drupal for the whole thing? And of course, contact me if you need a way to roll out hundreds of sites across the country.
09/15/04 @ 21:52
A few reasons.
1) First, the people who are editing the site were familiar with MT, so the ease of use would be on MT's side when compared with Drupal for page management.
2) Notice how the top navigation (tabs) and left side navigation works. I have no idea how to get that kind of thing to work in Drupal. This is one of the reasons people shy away from Drupal, I think. There are specific goals in designing the interface that are just too hard for non-programmers to achieve. But I would love it if someone showed me how to do global and local navigation like this using Drupal.
3) I pretty much copied all of the PHP tempalte code I used to produce the navigation components from the AIfIA site. That stuff was easiest for me to port to MT.
09/16/04 @ 17:19
I figured most of the reasons were of the "people are used to MT" variety :p
2) I agree, this needs to be built-in/easy to achieve. All the templates (that support it) now support primary links directly in the theme administration page (which also automatically add an "active" class to the links when on that page). The next step is to have an easy way to tie down that secondary navigation. We've been using book pages and the book navigation to achieve this effect, but one of the myriad of menu-type modules need to be fixed so it *just works*.
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