Hi,
After successfully using drupal to produce our organisation's closed intranet, I was assigned to make our public pages as well. I chose drupal also for this project, as I wanted the pages to be flexible:
- they will be updated by many people in separate locations and without any web publishing skills
- I need to be able to administer them from anywhere
- I want to be able to transfer administrative tasks when my assignment ends
- they need to be easily modified
- a solid registration functionality for our script contest participants (not enabled yet)
- we wanted integrated forums
- I was comfortable with drupal & Interlaced theme :)
As this is still sort of a prelaunch (and my 3rd published website), I would surely appreciate any suggestions or comments you may have. Our advetising campaign for the annual script contest starts in couple of months, and last year the site attracted 1000-2000 visitors at peak times, so I would like the pages to be fit & smooth.
If you can find the time to visit Nisi Masa, I would be very grateful for your input on how to improve them.
Thanks & happy cycling,
Jon
Comments
As a newbie
... I would surely appreciate any comments on the site from you, more experienced websters?
.jontu
It's a nice, clean layout.
It's a nice, clean layout. The one thing I noticed is that it doesn't look like you have Clean URL's turned on. Those really help with search engine rankings. Search engine spiders don't like the "?" character, so all of your nodes won't be indexed without Clean URL's turned on. The option is in the Admin->Settings page.
Using Firefox's Web Developer extension, I noticed that the title of the node extends all the way into the right sidebar. Not sure if that's a problem with your template, or if you plan on using the right sidebar. Just thought you should know.
http://www.dawninglight.net
Just a note
I don't have clean url's on on any of my sites and they are regularly searched. I had one which is really not publlished and got a call from someone within a day of an article being posted.
-Steven Peck
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