Hiya all

Kudos first. As stated by some reviewers of the Drupal OS application, she is a little beast to get used to but once you get the basics down, she is unstoppable. What a great app!

Next...I would love to have some comments about our soft-launched site over here in NZ. It ain't a blog, it ain't a news site. It's a semi moderated CJ site. No content up there yet as we work on getting intelligent folk up there to start writing. Role hierarchy goes from anonymous -> authenticated -> recruit -> writer -> moderator -> content admin

It's been a long 2 months and, while we could keep on working on it, have decided to soft launch. No time like the present, eh?

Input please?

The greatest regards to all the developers and contributors on the Drupal project!

Pat

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mdixoncm’s picture

Nice site.

Going to include a link to make it easier for the lazy folks :) http://kiwime.co.nz/

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Patrick Van Rinsvelt’s picture

Hmmm.

DNS has been setup so that kiwime.co.nz is available as well. Did we miss something?

Just looked at booktribe. Do you want my honest opinion?

Remember that the human eye and all attention goes from left to right. Mute the stuff that does not need to be front of mind. What do you want the user to remember in the first 2 seconds they see the site?

Big logos and big graphics detract the limited concentration that most web users now have as we live in a very fast digital age. Unless, of course it is a naked woman :)

Content is key. Especially if it is niche and intelligent. Flashy graphics normally work only in the interactive website arena. When delivering content, make it easy and unencumbered.

Just my 2c

Pat

mdixoncm’s picture

Ah sorry, no you didn't miss anything - its just that there wasn't a link to the site in your origional post - so I thought I would be helpful and include one so that lazy folks wouldn't have to cut and paste :)

Yeah - we are having teething issues with the front page on bootktribes, it used to be nice and clean but more and more and more stuff has been added so it now hurts my brain a bit to look at it LOL ... cheers for the feedback though, always appreciated :)

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cantthinkofanickname’s picture

I am going to do a site for a charity as a volunteer and am trying to decide between using Jomla! and Drupal. I see your site degrades nicely with JS, CSS & images off. Does it pass w3c accessibility tests?

Be interested to know what template you used or if it is available for me to use (assuming it is mainly HTML/CSS and no tables for the main structure)?

Thanks

vanchisel’s picture

Your site is exactly what I'm looking for in a design with the login bar at top and rounded corner boxes. Since I'm not a php freak I search far and wide to get what I have at Cayne Fitness Studio (under development).

The boxes on my website are not rounded in Internet Explorer. I have no idea why that is so. No problem in FF. I got the idea from Mindsack. When I run Mindsack in IE and FF it shows as it should.

Do you mind telling me what you use to get the boxes like that? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thomas Cayne
Cayne Fitness Studio

andreavr’s picture

Thanks for the thumbs up on our design. We started out using the box grey theme (http://drupal.org/project/box_grey) with a lot of blue breeze influence. Other things:

1. The login bar at top was done by tweaking HOWTO: Create a custom user login bar: http://drupal.org/node/92657

2. The rounded corners I basically used sliding doors for the primary nav and ended up using background graphics for the LHS and RHS blocks - tried nifty corners but gave up.

3. To make the top nav rounded I added extra div's around the user_bar in page.tpl.php to put three background images - small LHS curve, middle gradient and small RHS curve:

<div id="nav-user-bar">
  <div class="rhs">
    <div class="middle">
      <?php print user_bar() ?>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

#nav-user-bar {
height: 30px;
border: solid 0px #CCC;
background:#FFF url(images/bg_user_login_lhs.gif) no-repeat top left;
margin: 0 0 0.2em 0;
}

#nav-user-bar .middle {
padding: 0;
margin: 0em 2px 0em 0px;
height: 30px;
background:#FFF url(images/bg_user_login.gif) top center;
}

#nav-user-bar .rhs {
padding: 0;
margin: 0em 0px 0em 2px;
height: 30px;
background:#FFF url(images/bg_user_login_rhs.gif) no-repeat top right;
}

Hope this helps - there's sure to be many ways to do these styles but this worked for me.

Cheers
Andrea

vanchisel’s picture

Thanks Andrea,

After taking the user bar approach for a spin for months I've decided to go a different route. I'm about 25% into my project (a 2 year one with only 1 person doing the work, namely, me). I've porting from my test site: Fitness to the working site: deQuindío Fitness. The project has taken on a life of its own from a brain storm to a universe (especially for a non-programmer), but I'm sticking with it.

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Thomas Cayne