Catholictuner.com
Wed, 07/29/2009 - 7:04pm
I am looking for developers for this site. The goals are rather ambitious;
- To centralize Catholic Media into a CMS.
- To globalize the content by language.
- Create a media player, an “electronic” version of a radio (hence tuner name)
- To work directly with content providers.
- To this use open standards
- To offer it to users and content providers for free
- To collaborate with Catholic Radio Association to become a tool
Wed, 07/29/2009 - 10:30pm
#2
After a cursory glance at the
After a cursory glance at the site, I'm really liking what I'm seeing (at least as far as the structure/content/etc. is concerned)!
I have a few suggestions for the short-term:
- Install the External Links module - it will help visitors see which links are going to shoot them off to another website.
- Consider reformatting the template a little so it fits better on a 1024x768 screen; right now, there's about 50px cut off on the right, requiring users to scroll sideways.
- Install Fivestar and the Voting API, and allow people to vote on content and such—give users something more to do, and make them feel appreciated :-)
- Think about disabling the WYSIWYG editor on the Contact page, as it simply adds a bit of load time for that page, and I don't think it would be necessary for someone to be making specialized text and such on a contact form...
These are some preliminary suggestions; other than that, hopefully a good themer/developer will come along and help you get that extra shine. This is a site that I'm excited about!
Thu, 07/30/2009 - 8:11am
#3
suggestions
Yes, yes to all the above!
Drupal I believe is the vehicle for this, but the more I get into it, the more I realize that it will require more and more of my time and with our 6th child on the way, it will make it difficult. I started to think of the open source ecosystem and thought, why not apply it to CatholicTuner? To have maintainers from all over the world even!
The External Links is installed, but I found out that it does not function when items are filtered through the Views module. Perhaps I am missing something?
John
Fri, 07/31/2009 - 2:53pm
#5
External Links
Finaly figured out the external links! I only had the "external" module, which detects links outside of drupal and opens them in a new window (_blank). I added External Links and now I have the little tiny, beautiful icon and it opens in a new window. :-)
This is turning into a monster!
Thu, 07/30/2009 - 12:32pm
#6
One more suggestion, which (I
One more suggestion, which (I think) will make it much more appealing for those who wish to add content (podcasts, blogs, etc.) to the site:
Try to make the submission forms (a) drop-dead simple, and (b) beautiful/eye-pleasing.
Play around with ImageCache, ImageField, and ImageAPI to make it so that the image can be any size, but ImageCache displays a 100x100 px cropped image; then try to add some styling or categorization to the submission forms by putting things together into a fieldset (using CCK, go to the content type, then manage fields, then make a new field grouping... then make sure you set the display how you like it in the 'Display fields' section).
It's a great start, for sure!
Thu, 07/30/2009 - 3:05pm
#7
Thanks Jeff, I will work on
Thanks Jeff, I will work on this and use your post as a guide.
John
Fri, 07/31/2009 - 12:11pm
#8
Take a gander at the "create
Take a gander at the "create new audio" content type and see if this looks better, if so I will make the others the same way.
John
Fri, 07/31/2009 - 12:34pm
#9
Much better. And, just for
Much better. And, just for reference, you can change the 'label' of fields to make them more human-readable - the field name (lowercase/underscores) has to stay that way, but you can add spaces to the label names so they read, for instance "Website Image" rather than "WebSiteImage" - just a quick tip :-)
Fri, 07/31/2009 - 1:01pm
#10
Will do,
Does anyone know
Will do,
Does anyone know how to make the FCKeditor box smaller?
Thu, 07/30/2009 - 3:07pm
#12
Has anyone had any luck with
Has anyone had any luck with this player? I installed it, but have not been able to get an m3u playlist to work?
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 9:23pm
#14
A little
A little bummed....
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 9:27pm
#15
That is pretty
That is pretty comprehensive... but your site is still extremely relevant, methinks, since you can aggregate catholic Podcasts, streams, video, etc. - more of a 'catholic new media hub' than a simple catholic radio station listing...
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 10:15am
#16
Well, I will agree with you,
Well, I will agree with you, it is only one aspect of the CatholicTuner.
I finally got Gmap set up and functioning for locating terrestial stations, check it out.
www.catholictuner.com/stations
There is still some fine tuning to do....
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 10:18am
#17
I like it! Although, our St.
I like it! Although, our St. Louis-area station, 1080 WRYT, isn't listed :-(
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 4:10pm
#18
Happy now ;-)
Happy now ;-)
Adding these stations is rather interesting, take Covenant Network for example, if I found them on the internet and had never heard of them, how would I listen to them on the radio? What are their call letters, what frequency are they on? This is not the only one, I have had to digg for this kind of information. I found it under programing? The last place I looked because I just assumed I would need to know the sation id before even looking at the programing.
Joao
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 6:18pm
#19
Yep - a lot of these kinds of
Yep - a lot of these kinds of stations don't have very informative/well-planned websites.
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 6:53pm
#20
Maybe we can help in changing
Maybe we can help in changing that!
I am just plugging at least one station per state, then it will have to be done by the individual stations.
Things are looking rather good if I wind up showing it off at the Catholic Radio Association. I think I am getting closer to the end of Beta. I need help theming this site, I have no clue where to begin. Any takers out there?
John
Mon, 08/17/2009 - 9:04am
#21
Living Bread Radio
I listen to Living Bread Radio, AM1060, out of Akron/Canton, Ohio. They were a big part in my reversion.
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 8:31am
#23
Theme updated
I updated the theme on catholictuner.com, input please!!!!
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 9:33am
#24
Like it!
Looks good! You might want to compress that Vatican photo though...it's >400kb. I'm guessing you can get it under 50kb and the site will load even faster.
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 9:24pm
#26
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CatholicTuner.com
OK, I did the updates to Drupal, I disabled all of the modules, put it Off-line and proceeded to update the modules. Ran update.php, all updated, re-enabled the modules now I cannot get any data to show up on the Gmaps View?(Stations tab). If I change the output to HTML list or Grid it shows up? I checked all of the permissions and I am just stumped! Any ideas?
In Christ,
Joao
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 11:58pm
#27
Seems like a problem with the
Seems like a problem with the Gmap module to me... have you filed an issue / support request in the Gmap issue queue?
Sat, 11/21/2009 - 10:53am
#28
No I haven't, I suppose I
No I haven't, I suppose I should....Gmap was not one of the updated modules so I just assumed it should still work fine.
update: Yep, a bug on Views 2.7.....http://drupal.org/node/623234....going to try patching it..
update2: problem fixed using the patch...
lol... I was about to suggest using Drupal for this—but I noticed you're already doing so!
I would try to use the SWF Tools for audio/media management, and use Drupal's localization system to make it multilingual; I don't think there's a CMS as devoted to multiple-language development as Drupal... unfortunately some of the most amazing features will have to wait until Drupal 7.
Any takers?
Advancing the faith.