Launching Beta Site

All,

The existing site (http://www.ponniyinselvan.in) is forum based which doesn't fit well with all type of contents since it is basically for members to post messages, doesn't play well with articles, pages, etc.,

I have been working on a new site which is in beta which is Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) based

http://beta.ponniyinselvan.in

Highlights

• Bilingual - Both Tamil and English interface, the articles are not yet translated (Vijay would be helping me on this, volunteers are welcome)
• Tagging - allows searching/viewing related articles
• Ponniyin Selvan Novel as book (both tamil and english version from Project Madurai) - http://beta.ponniyinselvan.in/ta/book/kalki/ponniyin-selvan.html
• Allow to post comments like blogs
• Allow me to post announcements as blog posts
• Allows caching and should be faster

Things todo

• Integrating yahoo group messages (Tag the messages to make search easier, tag all tamil sangam related messages with "Tamil Sangam" for easier searach)
• Translate english articles to Tamil
• Add more articles/content from existing yahoo group messages/threads

Members please go through site and provide your feedback to improve the site by posting a comment to this blog post.

Regards
Thiru