Nov
13
2008
This morning pingVision relaunched Pregnancy.org in Drupal 6. The site was wholly designed and developed by pingVision and included several interesting integrations including some custom tools.
The site allows site members to track their progress within the four primary tracks--"Getting Pregnant", "Pregnancy", "Labor and Delivery", and "Baby and Beyond".
Some of the things we did include:
- Development of a Basal Body Temperature Tool to help keep track of fertility cycles. The tool collects data (such as temperature and how you are feeling) and then uses the Google Chart API to generate a visual of when the most likely ovulation times will occur.
- Creation of a Pregnancy Calendar that follows your pregnancy every day to show you what is happening.
- Inclusion of a Fetal Development Tool that gives a visual representation and facts about where the fetus is in development.
- Integration of live chat and community forums in vBulletin.
- A sizeable import of users and articles from the old and inflexible PHPNuke site.
The site includes ad serving from multiple ad services such as DoubleClick Dart, PriceGrabber, and IntelliTXT.
This project will spawn a new contributed module (by pingVision's Ben Jeavons) called PDS (a generic tool for storing data for blocks) and possibly several others. We'll be blogging more in upcoming days.
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Comments
Garrett Albright writes:
I know it was just random, but still, the ad that's appearing in the rightmost block there in the screenshot doesn't quite seem to fit with the rest of the site somehow.
I like what you did with the block titles; how they're displayed over the header images.
I notice CSS and Javascript aggregation is not enabled. Oversight, or is there a reason for that?
Ben Jeavons writes:
Thanks for your comments. Yes, the ad provider is sending an incorrect ad for that region. There was awhile that CSS and JS preprocessing were off during the transition but you'll see they are on now.
Michelle writes:
vBulletin? Ack, you're killing me... :P
Nice site other than that. ;)
Michelle
Ben Jeavons writes:
Hi Michelle, our client wanted to keep their existing forums so we integrated with vBulletin. I'd love to use Advanced Forum sometime though!
Thanks
Mollee Bauer writes:
Hi Michelle! I'm the owner. Part of the reason we stayed with vBulletin is the sheer number of members who use the boards in any given hour (600-1000 minimum) and how many different boards/topics we have. We know that vBulletin can handle the load. There are also features in vB that you don't have in your module.
Your module is very nice, but it wouldn't be sufficient for all the different moderation/security etc.
Plus, there is only so much change our hormonal audience can handle.
:)