Austin Smith on Observer.com modules
Austin Smith (now with the Economist) takes us on a tour of some of the modules used on the New York Observer newspaper site. He talks specifically about some of the configurations of Views & CCK that make up their editorial workflow, workarounds and updates on the Observer case study that was written up for their initial Drupal 5 launch.
Modules mentioned
- primary term module
- token
- pathauto
- memcache
- views
- cck & userreference
- twistage CDN integration
- imagefield + a custom theming template preprocess hook for displaying with a jQuery carousel
- apachesolr and how the project module uses it
- mollom
- comment_login
For more information:
New York Observer Site Dissection at Do It With Drupal (registration required)