Looking at Drupal-built sites

Possibilities define goals.…That is, you need to know what can be done before you plan to do it, but it's…hard to see possibilities in the abstract.…A better way is to look at what's been done already and then build from that.…So in this video, we're going to run through a bunch of sites that are built on Drupal.…You'll get two things from this little exercise.…First, you'll see common patterns of Drupal use.…Second, maybe you'll get a little inspired to replicate some of the fancier tricks.…I'm going to start with the two highest-traffic Drupal sites on the web.…

The first one, amusingly enough, is Drupal.org itself.…This is of course built in Drupal.…You see that it uses a columnar design, where you have a column here, a…column here, and one here.…It also has several other interesting features:…a large Search box up here, a menu that's hugging the top of the screen, a…map down here that shows you the latest activity around the world and where…exactly it's coming from.…The bottom of the page, as is increasingly common in modern design, has a list…