Whereitsatnyc.org – Drupal website launch

Last Friday, Where It’s At NYC website was launched with my design and Drupal theming, done by CivicActions – Strategic Internet & Drupal Consulting company, where I work.  Where It’s At NYC is another great example of a mostly “out-of-the box” Drupal implementation.

The defining characteristic of the site’s implemention is its principal navigation structure based on a large (200+ term) taxonomy written in the form of first person “I” statements like “I need emergency housing services”, “I have questions about STI’s HIV, AIDS and other related issues”. These statements are organized into five “domains”–education, employment, health, housing, and social–reflecting the broadest categorization of the social service resources listed on the site.

Users navigate the resources by drilling down in each domain through a series of these statements. As a user clicks into the hierarchy, a refined list of resources appears (powered by a Views). Each taxonomy term description appears as a sort of help text on each of these pages, and together with all the descriptions of all the other taxonomy terms in the same domain, constitutes a sort of glossary for that domain accessible through the domain’s landing page.

A few other contrib modules provide some of the other bells and whistles on the site. These include among others:

• With the Avatar select module, users can choose from one of 40 avatars created by the client with their specific audience in mind, using www.faceyourmanga.com. Avatar differs for logged in user/anonymous visitor.
• We used Node Import module to import content provided by the client.

• The Location and Gmap modules were used to place maps on each page, and the location data stored in the Location module populates a direct link to a page on www.hopstop.com, a site widely used by youth in NYC for public transit directions.
• For the site’s administrators and contributors, the Hierarchical select module eases the selection of statements from the large vocabulary.

Read the full case study on CivicActions.com

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