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Have you heard of Pushtape? Don't worry me neither. But after this blog post we will definitely be sure if its a Drupal yay or nay. The reason I chose this Installation profile as the theme for my post is simple, to make sites for bands in your community is an easy way to get your foot in the web development scene if you are just starting out. All band sites basically works in the same way which means that you can just duplicate your site structure every time.
OK so here we go.
Pushtape is a new Installation Profile for Drupal 7 that focuses on musicians, it comes supplied with a discography framework, you can very easily post new events like shows, there is a custom photo gallery where you can upload multiple photos as a set and of course a nice looking news type blog for all those quick updates.
The installation was really easy, clean, very well customized and quick. I use WebMatrix 2 to install sites on my localhost (if you are not yet using Webmatrix you can read my previous post Zero to Drupal in 10 min, it will help you get setup in no time.)
When you first load your new Psuhtape site for the fist time, the User UI is very well set up for out of the box and go. And I'm sure a new user will find it very easy to navigate. At the top of the page you can see the Admin menu bar that provides you with a + Add button, a New Track button, Home and Account for quick and easy navigation while building your new music site.
By clicking the + Add link Pushtape navigates to its already created content types, these include Album
that Creates an album release with tracks and artwork., Event that Creates an event with a date and time.
News A quick news update. Photoset, A simple photoset for sharing a group of photos and Track
A single audio track or song. All in all a solid foundation.
If you are a more advanced Drupal user you might dislike the set up at first glance because it limits you and you already have to start of by configuring a custom menu bar for yourself to enable quick access to your modules and setting, to get past this just use /admin at the end of your URL this will take you to the admin area, but I'm sure you knew that.
This is an end-user product, and any musician could have his or her site up and running in no time, and any advanced user could have a music kingdom running from this with little work. I had fun playing around with this installation, well done to the creators of Pushtape for a job well done.
My Drupal Module rating : 4/5
OK so here we go.
Pushtape is a new Installation Profile for Drupal 7 that focuses on musicians, it comes supplied with a discography framework, you can very easily post new events like shows, there is a custom photo gallery where you can upload multiple photos as a set and of course a nice looking news type blog for all those quick updates.
The installation was really easy, clean, very well customized and quick. I use WebMatrix 2 to install sites on my localhost (if you are not yet using Webmatrix you can read my previous post Zero to Drupal in 10 min, it will help you get setup in no time.)
When you first load your new Psuhtape site for the fist time, the User UI is very well set up for out of the box and go. And I'm sure a new user will find it very easy to navigate. At the top of the page you can see the Admin menu bar that provides you with a + Add button, a New Track button, Home and Account for quick and easy navigation while building your new music site.
By clicking the + Add link Pushtape navigates to its already created content types, these include Album
that Creates an album release with tracks and artwork., Event that Creates an event with a date and time.
News A quick news update. Photoset, A simple photoset for sharing a group of photos and Track
A single audio track or song. All in all a solid foundation.
If you are a more advanced Drupal user you might dislike the set up at first glance because it limits you and you already have to start of by configuring a custom menu bar for yourself to enable quick access to your modules and setting, to get past this just use /admin at the end of your URL this will take you to the admin area, but I'm sure you knew that.
This is an end-user product, and any musician could have his or her site up and running in no time, and any advanced user could have a music kingdom running from this with little work. I had fun playing around with this installation, well done to the creators of Pushtape for a job well done.
My Drupal Module rating : 4/5
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