My thought is the site should be clean, uncluttered, and focus mainly on the featured map. I opened up my regular Paint program on windoze and made this very rough template:
It's pretty basic, but visitors don't need to go anywhere to find the featured content, its right there for them.
As always, I'm open to criticism on this, good or bad.
I like the layout, nice clean and to the point. How hard/easy is this to make in drupal?
I think it should be somewhat easy. What I'm diving into now is Panels and Views. Panels allows you to create custom blocks within the blocks, and Views allows you to call different pieces of data into whatever type of 'view' you want. like, calling all tags that begin with letter B into a list, that is then displayed on a page.
In this case, I just need the most recently uploaded image to display, along with its map story.
I haven't made the topic yet, and I know I need to re-list the to do list, as well as prioritize it, but one of the things I would like to get done is to find a good map submittal system. I'm thinking that a user could upload a zip file that contained the map image or layers, map story.txt, and metadata.txt, then somehow unzipping and displaying them into each view. I am not sure if that is possible or if its better to just store them in the DB and call them somehow.
I'd also like to make the user profile pages better and possibly give each member a page, some space to store maps, etc.