By ipwa on

Hello everyone!!

I just wanted to let you guys know about this site I did with Drupal as part of my dissertation. The adress is: http://www.mulpo.com, it's an online community for people who work with multimedia. Please join and make a profile, and you could show your work at a new audience, my traffic mainly comes from Europe and south America, so it's a good chance to network. the site has been live just for a few days, but expect fresh and quality content uploaded every day. The site is still in working progress, and you can expect it to get better every day. Thanks to anyone who comes visits the site and joins, and I'll be eternally gratefull to anyone who contributes!!
Cheers!!!!!!

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mileZ’s picture

mileZ commented

Hi ipwa,

I like your site!!

How did u themed the date?

thnx
MileZ

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futbal commented

your site is taking too much time to load, please check if there is any problem with the database...

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ipwa commented

Thanks for the head up. I checked my database using the cPanel XP from my host and it gave me a report that all the tables were ok. I think that the site might be taking a bit long to load on your computer because the posts have large images, and some user post png images, so that might be it. I'll look into optimizing the cache for my site. In many computers I've tested the site, the site seems to load relatively quickly. Because my site has a lot of images in the front page my site could be taking long to load compared to sites that just have text, but in my site images are very important for user to see what they are going to download.

Nicolas
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yaph commented

Firebug tells me that the whole download of the start page took 44,65 s! There where 39 HTTP requests and 306kb download. That's pretty much but does not justify the long loadtime with a DSL connection. There is also lots of javascript being used and you use both jquery and prototype.

You can at least reduce the number of HTTP requests and the download size a bit by enabling "Aggregate and compress CSS files:" in "admin/settings/performance". Do you have caching enabled?

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ipwa commented

Thanks a lot yaph, the website has only been live for 7 days, and I had to do my dissertation presentation yesterday, so I did not have a lot of time, because I was practicing my presentation. I had caching on the dev version on the site but not on the live one, d'oh. I enabled it in normal mode, and used the aggregate and compress CSS files. I had never seen that feature of Firebug, it's wicked!! Now on my connection it tells me that the site loaded in 7,33 s. After I submit my presentation on Friday I'm going to start looking into ways for reducing the JavaScripts I use. Thanks a million yaph and by the way I love SEO-Expert-Blog, the diggthis module is wicked!

Cheers,

Nicolas
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mulpo.com

Nicolas
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yaph commented

You're right diggthis is wicked ;) Thanks!
One more thing I've noticed that you use prototype for the lightbox. There is a really good jquery plugin called jqmodal (http://dev.iceburg.net/jquery/jqModal/) that can be used for lightboxes etc. And it is really lightweight and you don't need to integrate another javascript library. AFAIK there is no Drupal integration yet, but I'am sure this will change soon.

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ipwa commented

I wrapped the day and the month variables in individual spans and wrapped both in a div, I gave the div the icon background. Here is the what I have in my node.tpl.php

  <div class="content">
  	<div class="post-date"><span class="post-month"><?php print (format_date($node->created, 'custom', 'M')) ?></span> <span class="post-day"><?php print (format_date($node->created, 'custom', 'd')) ?></span></div>
    <?php print $content; ?>
  </div>

and this is my CSS:

.post-date {
	width: 48px;
	height: 43px;
	float:left;
	margin-right: 10px;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	background: url(images/cal-icon.gif) no-repeat;
}
.post-month {
	font-size: 11px;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-align: center;
	display:block;
	line-height: 11px;
	padding-top: 4px;
	margin-left: -3px;
}
.post-day {
	font-size: 18px;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: #000;
	text-align: center;
	display:block;
	line-height: 18px;
	padding-top: 4px;
	margin-left: -4px;
}

hope it helps!!!

Nicolas
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