After some months of heavy customizing, my punk rock community page went online again using drupal. this site exists 3 years now with about 400 members (...so far) and the main features have been (and are now): an article database, a forum, a downloadable video-/audiodatabase, lyrics, image galleries and a a weblink-directory - everything accepting user-input. Now, with drupal i have been able the extend the features to: user-blogging, tagging, multimediastreaming and easy site-wide-rating. Formerly, the webpage was up using php-fusion, so i went through some trouble converting the data. lately, i've been able to get all the forums, the users and their PMs over by first converting to phpbb2... well, you can think of the rest ;) following modules are in use:
* Forum Access
* Audio (with playlist functionality... i use this for the illusion of albums ;) )
* CCK
* Content Templates
* Event + SignUps
* Image (with galleries)
* Import Export API (for some of the data conversion)
* Links Package
* Private Message (+MassContact)
* Node Profile + Usernode (I used michelle's great tutorial for the profiles)
* Smilies
* Buddylist
* Avatar Selection
* BBCode
* Comment Mover (for forum-moderation)
* Community Tags
* FlashVideo
* Flatforum
* Guestbook
* TinyMCE + IMCE (for user's images in content)
* phpFreeChat
* shoutbox
* Captcha
* Tagadelic
* Views
* VotingAPI + jRating
The design I chose will not meet everyone's flavor here, but i decided to make it a little "oldschoolish", because my users wanted it this way. Furthermore I wanted to make the relocation as easy as possible for my users. I wanted to give them better functionality instead of stimulus satiation ;)
In the end I want to thank to whole community, you are _very_ helpful (special thanks to michelle, travist and moonray). I know my little site is far from being perfect now, it will be work in progress for some more time and i have to rule out some IE glitches. Personally, using drupal was one of the best decisions I ever made, I learned so much about php and mysql in the last few months I never did before ;)
ah yeah... if you want to take a closer look, you can login using your drupal.org-login
...sebi