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Looking at Drupal-built sites

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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…

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