New EPIC FU website

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Permalink Reply by sunjana1 on May 21, 2009 at 8:43pm

Can't help with Drupal. :( Have you looked at joomla! ?

My company actually uses it in our B to B site - which is quite different than what you're doing I know. Hm - maybe I am not terribly useful here... ;-)

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Permalink Reply by sunjana1 on May 21, 2009 at 9:11pm

no, no. no trickery. in this case, without the wink, that last sentence would have been more of a downer. i'm saying i'm not REALLY that upset about being useless...or we can just blame it on my general over-use of emoticons.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Woolf on May 22, 2009 at 4:26am

i would agree that there are a lot of wonky-looking drupal sites, but there *are* some great-looking ones.

we're not sure if we're going to use drupal -- we've spent a long time on the ning platform and it could be a huge problem getting the community over to another tool.

sometimes this weekend we're hoping to get a discussion post up that details what we want the new site to do, what we want the new format to be, and get all of your feedback on it so we can do it right. i've been researching tools and platforms for the last 2-3 days and i have a pretty good idea what we'll need to do, just hoping to come across something that has it at least partially built.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Woolf on May 22, 2009 at 4:28am

By the way, a lot of what we want to do was in part inspired by Epic Faux! I've been trying to remember to get back to you on that project forever. More to come...

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Permalink Reply by Dale on May 22, 2009 at 4:33am

If you have the time to sit down and write your own layout and custom designs for drupal then go for it. Drupal is extremely powerful and I love it to bits but I really lack the coding skills to bring a lot of my ideas about what I want to with it to life.

One of the things that surprises me the most about it though is how easy and quick it is to add new things to it and keep building on it. There are so many open source modules that you can install it's insane.

Some of the user functions are also really cool, being able to split people up into multiple groups and also hand over moderation duties to others is something that I get the feeling mix could use as it would give you guys some time to work on other things.

Any way have a look at it and if you need some beta testers send me an e-mail.

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Permalink Reply by Tanner on May 22, 2009 at 7:55pm

Why Don't you try show in a box's themes?

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Permalink Reply by Laurence on May 23, 2009 at 7:32am

I just want something to be set straight, is this gonna be used for Epicfu.com? or here on mix?

if it is for mix, so far I have enjoyed being on here, for reasons already stated here. And if a change is made, I hope the same layout and format stays visually as it is currently on Ning.

This might seem like a small pixel in the picture, but one thing i really like is the "drag & drop" file upload applications here on mix/ning, the big players (bebo & bookface) just have a "go to a directory and check what you want to upload" interface which i find slow and annoying. I hope these are kept for the new iteration :D

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Permalink Reply by Tanner on June 2, 2009 at 2:26am

Like I said, www.wix.com has pretty cool ideas

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Permalink Reply by Dale on June 6, 2009 at 8:23pm

Which version of Drupal are you planning on running? I've been messing around with layouts and CSS in version 6 and you can create some pretty nifty stuff. I am planning on re building my music website and my new labels website and business structure around it entirely which should be good.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Woolf on June 7, 2009 at 5:04am

Yeah, it's Drupal 6. I have a wireframe running, just about ready to get into cosmetics and fine-tuning.

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Permalink Reply by Dale on June 7, 2009 at 7:53am

Sounds good. Get some beta testers for it too, it's often easy to set things up in the permissions for the admin user and then screw them up for your default users. I ended up having stuff like users not being able to create forum threads cause I missed ticking off a box and it took a week for someone to tell me about it.

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