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UPDATE: Please note that Craigslist is blocking Yahoo Pipes.  Until this changes, the solution posted here won't work. Please contact Craigslist & ask them to unblock pipes access and/or ask them to beef up their search system.

Craigslist.org is a great commercial free website for connecting local buyers/sellers.  But if you've ever tried to put create a custom Craigslist search, you might be frustrated by the inability of Craigslist to handle complex searches with multiple custom criteria (e.g. cars under $5,000 made by Honda, Toyota or Nissan).

This website is powered by Drupal, an open source Content Management System (CMS). In addition to the Drupal base system, I've implemented the following modules/enhancements:

Drupal Modules:

Captcha for spam control and to help make sure only humans can create new user accounts (as opposed to spamBots). reCaptcha is used in conjunction with this module to enhance security & generate a slicker looking UI

I started tinkering with a new Drupal theme that has drop down nav menus that I found here: http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/88#comment-522. After rearranging my menu system, I was able to get the drop downs to work correctly & I also connected the menuing system to the Drupal taxonomy module which I also recently configured.

So far I've setup two taxonomies, the first I call 'subject' with categories like: life, family, travel, running, local, gaming, politics, tech, and research. The second taxonomy I created is called 'content types' and has just two types in it, video and images.

Then I assigned one or more of these two sets of intersecting taxonomy categories to each content item on my site. The idea here is to allow a user to click on a "content type" (e.g. videos) that they might want to see & that will give them a list of all content with that content type.

I've been playing with my new digital camera, taking a series of stills and then processing them together using Adobe Image Ready to make GIF animations.

This is my latest attempt & a big improvement over my earlier HTML rollovers.