Here you can see my effort in creating a test version of Helpalot.
http://www.makingthesite.com/drupal_test
Feel free to take an account and play around with this alpha test version. But if you are a real charity, please don’t put a lot of energy in this. Leave your email adress at the contact form, and I’ll send you an email when a decent test version will be online that is actually usefull.
What I háve working is:
- Personal page/account (this means you can join the page right now)
- Group pages > being used as charity pages. You can put information about a charity on a page like this.
- Voting. You can vote on a group (/charity) page.
- Buddylist. You can set who your buddies are, only out of the people that have an account on this test page obviously.
I’m building the test version using Drupal, an open source program. I can use pieces of code that are freely available to build the test version. Putting these pieces together the way I want to is still difficult. So maybe you can help me out a little. An important part of Helpalot is that you can state on your personal page what charities you support. For now I have a buddylist module working leaving you able to state who your friends are, but not what charities you support.
For now a charity page is just a group page, and the buddylist module can’t link to that. Also I haven’t been able to allow people to comment on a group.
Update:
Okay, I like playing around. I have still a lot that doesn’t work the way I want to, but I just about got Google Maps working.
Also I just found out about snippets; pieces of code you can use for Drupal. I thought Modules where it, but snippets might lead me to some serious progress for this test version.