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1. CASE: VISITLAHTI.RU
Tero Alén

2. Visitlahti.ru
§ Lahti city promotes its services for Russian tourists
§ Was developed in really limited timeframe -> can’t be complicated
§ Most of the content are presented in slider
© 2011 Zeeland – www.zeeland.fi

3. Used modules
§ Admin
§ CCK
§ Feeds
§ Media (YouTube)
§ Nodewords (for meta tags)
§ Inline Messages (inline form messages)
§ Menu Trails
§ Weight
§ Wysiwyg
§ Views
§ Webform
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4. Views
§ Control how node (and other) lists are presented
§ block
§ or page
§ Together with CCK its most powerful building block of any site
§ GUI for database queries
§ If it isn’t single item it is a list -> views
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5. Lot of extensions
§ Slideshow
§ Accordion
§ Custom fields
§ Calculations
§ Better filtering
§ etc
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6. Views (in early days)
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7. Views (nowadays)
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8. Views (nowadays)
SELECT
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9. Views (nowadays) JOIN
SELECT
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10. Views (nowadays) JOIN
WHERE
SELECT
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11. Views (nowadays) JOIN ORDER BY
WHERE
SELECT
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12. Visitlahti slider
§ Views: unformatted node listing
§ picture with image field
§ title and body displayed when image is clicked
§ Moving Boxes jQuery plugin
§ and custom javascript event handlers
© 2011 Zeeland – www.zeeland.fi

13. Maintaining slider
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14. Questions?
Contact:
Tero Alén
tero.alen@zeeland.fi
© 2011 Zeeland – www.zeeland.fi