MyHouseMyStreet

This is a website for a collaborative, community-based project providing information about Brighton & Hove's historic homes and streets. It uses a Drupal content management system to provide the staff and volunteers with full control over the content.

Graphical design

The page layout is based on a 12-column grid, 960 pixels wide and employs two sidebars for navigation and secondary content.

The design of the site was kept deliberately simple so that it would be easy for the staff and volunteers to maintain it. We opted for a 'loose' design so that they wouldn't be restricted in terms of the length of the articles they could publish, nor the number of images on a page.

The site

The home page content is fully editable; the three columns beneath the large image are blocks that draw their content from editable source pages; to the left, the Blog and Notices blocks are Drupal views that configure content drawn from their respective aggregation pages.

Street Directories

The site contains over 50,000 images of pages from street directories. These are displayed in a Zoomify interface, enabling users to zoom in to the images and grab and move them around in the Zoomify window.

Tagging

If the user creates an account and then logs-in to the site then they have the facility ro tag the records.

The whole of the Resources section sits on top of a Solr search engine that provides a faceted search interface that enables users to filter the data by: object type, tagging, publisher and date.