By thomaslaw on

I created this restaurant site a year or so ago. Just thought I'd throw it out there.

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thomaslaw commented

marlowstavern.com

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nathanwyse commented

nice site ... i've been checking out drupal for a bit now and have been inspired by sites like yours
thanks
nathan h wyse
principle - wdl
nathan at wysen.us

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banglogic commented

Just wanted to say nice work! Shows how a Drupal based site can really shine.

Thanks,
Ken Knicker
Bang Logic

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eurokc98 commented

I love it. This pushes me over the edge and will now focus more on Drupal with projects going forward. Thanks for the inspiration, also cant wait to see the new site.

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adinah commented

This site gives me inspiration. As a new user of Drupal, I don't really know what it can do. Thanks for posting this. You did excellent work!!

Do you have any tricks that you used that you may want to share?

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thomaslaw commented

Thanks for the compliments, its always appreciated when people like your work.

As for any tricks to this design, there really aren't any. It's pretty straight-forward. If you're new to Drupal and want to figure out how to get the most out of your designs, the best way I've found to learn is to just take an existing theme and start altering it. Trying to design or "theme" a site from scratch is much more difficult and, quite frankly, not necessary. Just know that Drupal can be configured into anything. Even the best site or most favorite site you've seen can be stylistically accomplished in Drupal.

Good luck.

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errolsimon commented

Great looking site. Which template did you use?

Thanks,

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thomaslaw commented

Actually, I think I beat bluemarine into submission for this one.

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katherined
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It's a long way from bluemarine. Very nice! It is slick and polished, but also straightforward and well presented.

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sjh-1 commented

That's a nice looking site. The attractive graphic design aside though, I'm interested in how you went about the drupal design aspects. Say for example, the "Tavern Talk" page. Is that a single article that is edited each time there are changes, or a listing of a taxonomy term, or something else? Similarly, is there anything automatic about the calendar?

I also notice that a lot of the graphics seem to be in the theme directory. Are they just manually uploaded there, or is the some reason they appear in that location?

Also to note, the enterntainment page has a broken link on the vinings location image, and a quick look at the html indicates that there are some duplicate ID attributes.

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thomaslaw commented

A lot of what you're noticing is recently requested functionality by the client that I mocked up manually in the system because I wanted to delay building it out until v.5 was released. The current version of that site is 4.6.3. I'll basically be upgrading/recreating the whole thing within a month or so and all of the manual design will be replaced with actual dynamic structure.

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sjh-1 commented

It will be good to see the new version and some ideas on the dynamic implementation once you get it up and running. One of the tough things with Drupal learning is to know which tools to use for a given structure once you move away from blogs, and this site has some good examples.

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jaketess commented

Hi,

I like the site you made, and it doesn;t look like drupal themes.

I am newbie in using drupal so I kind of puzzle on how did you do your site. With lots of modules available out there I really don;t know what to use and which is which for this purpose.

Hope you can help me!

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newdru commented

Few Questions

1) how did you do the gmap location embedded in your location pages?

2) how does the mmg subscription service work. it looks external to your site. do you create a newletter and then send it out to this external mailing list?

3) the employment site goes to an external link as well. how does that work? how much does that cost?

thanks

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thomaslaw commented

To answer your questions...

1) When you're registering a gmap key, you need to register it for the primary domain (i.e. www.whatevertheaddressis.com), not for the specific url (in my case: marlowstavern.com/locations would not work). Since the url's generated dynamically and aren't necessarily directories, the key won't work. I used GMapEZ to embed the actual map, not the code created by Google. It's all fairly simple to implement.

2) The Newsletter service is completely external, what's on Marlow's is just a outbound link to the service provider.

3) The situation is the same for the employment site. That's a separate service they pay for and all you see is a link. I have no idea what the Newsletter service or the Employment service cost. I'm just glad I'm not the one dealing with that crap.

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Ella-1 commented

Really nice site. I can't believe you just 'beat blue marine into submission'!

I've been modifying other themes for awhile and was going to try to start from scratch - thanks for your tip, if you can get this from bluemarine then one really need not ever start from scratch.

Well done!

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Creative_Mind commented

Hello all,

After viewing this website I just had to respond. It is awesome and tastefully done!

Being new to Drupal and trying to learn all of what it is capable of........my question is, why did you use Drupal to design this site? I mean, what 'modules' did you use? I am not sure I am seeing any modules in effect? (again, i'm new to this, pardon my ignorance)

Don't get me wrong, everything looks nice! Just curious.

Thanks all!

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thomaslaw commented

Thanks for the response Creative,

I tried to explain in one of my previous replies that this is a v4.6 site and my client came back to me and said they wanted new kinds of functionality after we had finished. These requests were made relatively close to the release of v5.0 and I wanted to wait before going feature-crazy so I manually rigged some stuff. All will be dynamic in the new version I'm working on for release later this month.