The Modular Company (TMC)

Today I added 'friendly urls' instead of those node ids that are all over the place in drupal. I like to have pages organized. The 'autopath' module allows you to specify patterns that will be used to automatically create aliases based on fields in the content.

I've tried to figure out how to give a user a subdomain (such as jam.buzzem.com), but that seems to be harder than it should be. That's pretty basic functionality I think and I'm more than a little surprised that it isn't in there.

What kind of stickyness tools would be interesting to develop?

It's clear that when users install a piece of software which is usefull they won't uninstall soon. See ww.com users keep using this software where there is more advanced software on the web. Development of software which is installed on the pc of the user is complex and needs a lot of maintance. But with this type of software you are in 'the livingroom' of the user, he starts his pc including your service, he doesn't have to surf to an URL to return to your service.

What type of websites are sticky?

Amazing stuff, no other words for it. I spent half the day just looking at the various modules and themes that are available for Drupal. I'm sorely tempted to backport my current sites to drupal but I think that before I start to get distracted too much I should keep an eye on what I wanted this for and not let the 'new toy' feeling get me off on some unproductive tangent.

So, here it is, the new Modular Company corporate website. This is where all the people associated with TMC can hang out, collaborate on projects and keep track of things like bookmarks and contact lists. I'm still playing around with this and slowly getting up to speed, drupal is pretty big and it will probably take me some more time to get to any level of proficiency with it.

At a minimum I expect this site to:

• provide a per project todo list and bug tracker
• keep track of bookmarks and useful links
• keep our contacts database