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I was thinking last night about a way to find other Drupal sites out there... and here it is... I searched for some Drupal footprint.

Google search using "add new comment" - this still doesn't cover all drupal pages (but I guess you can't suss out every one!

So this search covers the one that have enabled comments, the previous search covered the websites with login.

I want to kick off a list of the best sites out there... keep it informative so we have somewhere to look when we need ideas when making websites!

I'll start it off:

Linux Professional's Association | Linux for Professionals

http://www.lpa.org.za/
Rating: 7/10
Review:
Nice and practical. Perhaps a good model to emulate if you would like to implement Drupal for simple informational websites for clients or yourself.

Bluffton Today / BlufftonToday.com: It's what people are talking about .... Bluffton, South Carolina

http://www.blufftontoday.com/
Rating: 9/10

Review:
A newspaper website.
Very modified! Very well designed and thought out website.
Has a subdomain setup with Drupal
e.g. http://extras.blufftontoday.com/movies/chickenlittle.html
A good layout for the modified fontpage. I suspect phpsnippets.
The classifieds isn't Drupal though. Nor is the directory:
http://yellowweb.blufftontoday.com/

CUCBC Online

http://www.cucbc.org/
Rating: 6/10
Review:
Rowing site for a University group.
- Modified menu system
- Intersting use of the right sidebar to tell people if an event is on or not using a flag system
- Clean website design

Welcome to AVI - AIDS Vancouver Island

http://www.avi.org/

Rating: 6.5/10
Review:
- A modification of the blue marine theme - well done IMHO
- Practical website design - nice colour scheme and top banner
- Seems to receive a fair amount of hits "67285" for Nov 05 it claims

my.epilepsy.com

http://my.epilepsy.com/
Rating: 6/10
Review:

- A place to read, write and live with epilepsy
- A modification of chameleon/marvin/style.css
- Nice colour scheme and logo
- well spaced out
- Nice menus

Your Democracy | democracy is not a spectator sport

http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/
Rating: 4/10
Review:

- This is an example of how not to design a Drupal site or any website for that matter
- Site colour scheme is not appealing
- Although information provided is practical and useful
- Website seems to have an active membership

Bril Band

Rating: 5.5/10
Review:
Interesting use of a flash frontpage/top banner and using Drupal as the backbone of the information system.
Colours are drab - but I guess it fits their target audience (!)

http://brilband.com/news (The drupal section of their site)

MENSA Singapore

http://www.mensa.org.sg/
Rating: 6/10
Review:
- This theme should look familiar to everyone. A modified Kubrick theme. Works well.
- Nice popup menus for the sidebars. BUT it is javascript and is not linked with the Drupal system (I suspect) hence not updated as you update the relevant menu blocks. I think there is a CSS solution to this.
- Uses an image map html function for links in the top right of the header banner.

NetworkWorld.com Community

http://www.networkworld.com/community/
Rating: 6/10
Review:
- Looks ok
- The hot topics to the right breaks the page design...
- code suggests it is a bluemarine modification - if it is - its not very apparent (the changed colour scheme and sizes does it) I still think the AIDS vancouver site does a better job of it.

PDX Adventure Racer

http://www.pdxadventureracer.com/

Rating: 8/10
Review:
"PDX Adventure Racer provides greater Portland Oregon metro area Adventure Racers with a resource for teammate finding, knowledge, skills, tips and tricks, training, and general socialization. We are a free club with several hundred members all dedicated to the sport of Adventure Racing"

- Love the search bar (it has a nice graphic styled around it)
- I have a sneaking suspicion they ported over a theme from elsewhere. (Dont know which one though)
- Very nice community site feel.
- They've got this java thing going when you hover over links

Asian Lovers (No adult content)

http://www.asianlovers.net/

Rating: 9/10
Review:
A drupal dating website!

HOLY CRAP you've got to look at the design of this website... THIS IS DRUPAL!?!?

Talk about great graphics and a great theme!

And this designer probably did a lot of modifying to get what they wanted.

Oneword Radio

http://www.oneword.co.uk
8/10
Some minor comments http://drupal.org/node/37222#comment-68059

otherwise another one of those sites where you cry "This is actually drupal?!"

The secret is in the theming. It is simple and does a good job. Colours selected just "work" together.

Practical. This site demonstrates the KISS principle in web design.

This post was based on my post to the Drupal forums at: Google can find 54,700 drupal websites out there

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