I’ve mentioned a few times over the past while my increasing high regard for Drupal. It has come such a long way over the past couple of years, and you may not know it but you’ve probably stumbled across several Drupal powered sites in your travels. Here are just a few of the higher profile ones for you to check out.
You have to love The Onion. The worlds most famous satirical newspaper moved their website to Drupal ages ago, and it’s a fantastic implementation of Drupal. They have all sorts of cool features, from videos to podcasts to a cool Google Maps feature called Our Dumb World. You should check it out.
Back in 2001 when the dot com bomb exploded, Fast Company was ridiculed for being one of the main media outlets which had been fuelling the crazy venture capital fire. Since then they’ve calmed down a bit, thought twice before penning silly articles, and moved their site to Drupal. It’s quite a simple implementation, but it works well.
Music Television. Hmmmm, not anymore. MTV might as well stand for ‘My teen videos’ these days, but to hell with it, I still watch some of their channels now and again. About two years ago they engaged Lullabot to help them redevelop MTV.co.uk, to incorporate new community features and more interactive stuff – and it’s worked. Their MTV Flux thingy is a great example of how to create sophisticated community features with Drupal.
These fancy Dans have gone to town with this one. The site is massive, and even individual artist websites are not mostly powered by Drupal. They’ve music videos, news, artist profiles, and loads of other stuff. They’ve clearly realised selling records won’t cut it anymore to make money. Three ad formats per page is how they now make money from music.