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Today, we launched the redesigned Geeks and God podcast site in drupal 5. This was the 3rd site I worked on in drupal 5 but the first that included a completely new theme. This is the most fun site I have ever had building. I would love to know what people think of the look.
Oh, and we kick of the new "season" of episodes with a series on drupal for churches.
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Very Nice!
I like the design. I can't believe it only took you guys twelve hours. Amazing.
I've been wanting to setup a podcast site, but I'm not a fan of the double click thing required for IE users with the audio module. I noticed that you are using a Wordpress-looking flash player, which you state in your podcast that it is customized for Drupal. It's so sweet. Will you be offering this to the Drual community?
OAN, I'm looking forward to your Drupal series podcasts.
Carey
flash player
The newest version of the audio module has this player in it. I was using the released copy of the audio module while the dev copy is the one to use and has that player (should have read the release notes). The flash player is from that wordpress plug-in. So, there is no need for me to offer it up.
The flash double-click in IE is a real pain. The problem is IE puts that double click on all objects in the html. There is a fix over at macromedia to handle this but I didn't like it. It makes for more extra work than I desire. I tried to find a good way to do this via jquery but ran into another problem. Javascript can add objects to a page and since it's seen as something outside the html it doesn't have the double click thing on it. But, compressed jquery (as included in drupal) is looked on by IE as not being something outside the text so objects inserted by it require the double click. This is because of the compression.
I am currently looking for a way to replace jquery with a differently compressed version and code to not have the double click. The coding isn't hard it's making jquery as small as possible. I got it down to 30K with stripping out white space, comments, etc. This is 10K larger than the compressed version included with drupal. Another option I am investigating is a custom, non-jquery, javascript that does the job. I am looking for what's smaller, easier, and faster to do. The jury is still out on the answer but I didn't want that to hold up the launch.
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Matt
http://www.mattfarina.com
Thanks for the response.
Well, whatever you are doing to prevent the double-click in IE, it seems to work. When I checked it out on IE6 setup with Linux, as I usually do with Drupal podcasting sites, yours was the first I didn't have a problem with.
I think one of the needs that church Druapl sites will have is the ability to podcast without hassle and the dreaded double-click, which most IE users have no knowledge of and will just assume that the flash player isn't working and will leave, and most non-geeks (like me) won't have a clue how to resolve. But you seem to have solved it - maybe not to your satisfaction but it works. And 10 extra K isn't that much, btw.
huh???
I am not doing anything to stop the click to activate yet. I still have to in my IE. Strange that you don't.
When I have a good way to get around the click to activate I will post it so people can get to it.
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Matt
http://www.mattfarina.com
Cool.
That would be way cool.
Again, great site.
Cheers.
Very nice. I also enjoyed
Very nice. I also enjoyed the pod cast :o) Thanks!
Nice content
you have a very nice site..and the podcast is kewl too
congrats
Jimmy Montano