One of the old standards that I have kept loyally by my side over the years is Popular Science magazine. From the days of the old Wordless Workshop to today’s version it’s always been an old favorite of mine. So imagine my surprise when I banged into the Popular Science website to find the whole thing had apparently been out for a major makeover with the end result looking like a highly polished blog–which is exactly what it was.
Drupal was their choice of platform in this case and that’s just fine for more and more of the mainstream website’s are switching over to CMS/blogging platforms either partially or completely which just means that the servers that have been serving up static web pages for over a decade now are finally going to have to be beefed up to run these new dynamic website’s which will hopefully become the norm for all hosting type services. And that’s good for all us blogger’s in general. Personally I appreciate the easy interface and navigation that these types of platforms offer over the old static sites which could very often be confusing to find your way around.
To be honest about it I think Drupal is the right choice for the online version of Popular Science. Like WordPress, Drupal has a style all it’s own no matter what theme you may layer over it and the shiny, modulated look seems to fit the style of the magazine for the most part (although they are calling this first version a beta and more work needs to be done).
So here’s to another mainstream site going to the blogs. More power to ‘em I say.
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Being a Drupal fan myself, I’m pretty tickled to see larger sites switching to Drupal platform. As I keep telling to many people - Drupal is not a blogging application - it is a developers framework that allows you to create small, medium or large projects. It doesn’t have to be text document publishing site… it can be a video network, social network, e-commerce store, small business site, a portal, library, directory… anything. Many universities using Drupal now (for example ASU), government sites etc. etc. etc.
BTW, the link in my name is to one of the site I build on Drupal as well
Posted 31 Jan 2008 at 2:10 pm ¶Okay, since you put it that way.
By the way, the site has a nice layout and feel to it but I ain’t buying any real estate from ya’.
I’ve been wanting to play around with Drupal for awhile now myself, not as a replacement for WordPress per say since Wordpress is a great blogging platform but more for replacing a certain static website (maintained by Frontpage) that I know of. I think Drupal would be the choice of platform for this.
Posted 31 Jan 2008 at 5:02 pm ¶Here’s how we built the popsci website http://drupal.org/node/233090
Posted 26 Mar 2008 at 5:02 pm ¶The founder of Drupal just launched a commercial site as well. I was amazed at the number of large commercial sites that are running on Drupal.
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