By Luneh on

Hi there,

Here is a new Drupal website: www.hyboria.info

This site is dedicated to the world of Conan and especially the MMORPG Age of Conan and Conan Atlantean Adventures RPG. It is in french.

As you can probably see, there was a big work done on the template.

Main Modules:
- Audio
- CCK + Content Templates
- Image
- Privatemsg
- Usernode
Buddylist + Invite
- Video
- Views
- TinyMCE
- Related Links

And more like FAQ, Legal, phpbb, printer friendly pages,...

Do not hesitate to comment.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

Johnboat’s picture

Johnboat commented

This completely kicks ass! However it doesn't validate both HTML and CSS, it does look freakin awesome though. Good job with that!

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Luneh commented

Hi!

It was hard to validate, especially when being a complete newbie in CSS. By the way, maybe I'll try to do the modifications necessary to validate. Could you please tell me how I could see what does not validate? Thanks!

And... yes, it is my design. ;) But most of the pictures I based myself on are from Funcom (Age of Conan).

Johnboat’s picture

Johnboat commented

When you run the validation tool on it it will return the errors and it explains what you can do to fix the errors, well it tells you why you got the error. Look http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hyboria.inf...

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Luneh commented

Hi,

I am now working on that but there is unfortunately a lot of code coming directly from the modules that does not validate as well... A pity... And I cannot decently change this code, I'll have to change it each time I do updates...

Johnboat’s picture

Johnboat commented

I think for the most part drupal validates. The site I'm working on validates so far.

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Luneh commented

Actually, I have only problems with two parts:

- CSS coming from CCK, the part concerning opacity (which is not supported by W3C)
- XHTML (a lot!) in audio module

All the other parts that I worked on now validate.

Johnboat’s picture

Johnboat commented

The opacity will be supported in CSS3, I don't worry too much about that one.

What is the audio module you use? There may be a way to clean it up.

Luneh’s picture

Luneh commented

Hi!

Sorry for being so late in replying. I am currently becoming mad with a layout bug I have with Safari (long pages cut off, I don't know why).

The audio module I use is "Audio" but not the latest version (previous). I have not looked into the code in order to clean it yet, but if I remember well the biggest problems are with tags such as links, params...

Look into the validator!

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themegarden.org commented

Really nice drupal theme and site.
Is it your design?
Shade that I don't understend franch (?)
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Ardeo commented

How did you manage dropdowns on the primary navigation bar?

Did you use a module or custom code it? I've been trying forever to do the same thing.

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Luneh commented

Hi!

I initially used the nice-menu module that you can find on this site. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work for me with all versions of navigators, perhaps because of some parts of my layout, I don't know. So if you did not try it yet, check the nice_menu module and check very carefully with each navigator (I have mostly problems with IE7 and IE6 if I remember well).

So I had to apply a little trick... My menu is a simple block not linked at all with the menu module, which means that whenever I need to change the links, I have to go to the html code, but fair enough for me, it is not changing all the time.

The code I used and adapted was found there: CSS play

I discussed this drop down menu with a few people knowing CSS far better than I do and they rather recommend CSS + Javascript menus (but mostly would not recommend any drop down menu at all...), but I was not satisfied by those I found. This one has the advantage of working with all navigators without questions, even if some layout adaptations must sometimes be made in order to match them all.

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tomislav23 commented

Hey, great site.

What I'd really like to know, though, is how did you make those blocks at the bottom of the content part of the website? The poll, the RSS feeds and the rest. What I mean is, how did you make them exist in a row? Usually drupal only has a single type of centre block that stack in a column, each beneath the other.

I'm in the process of making my own site and I'd like to have left and right centre blocks (similar to yours) but I don't know how to do that which is really bad for the design of the site.

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Luneh commented

Hi!

Sorry for replying so late. Now that the website is done I spend less time here and had not noticed your message.

What I did for the blocks is a little trick. The whole homepage is a page I designed myself, not the default homepage. This page contains a table and I have simply included the blocks in the table. That means that I use php code in the page itself and not the bloc tool in the administration area.

The php code itself is for example:

<?php
echo '<tr><td colspan="3" class="home_secondary"><div class="home_sec"><h3>Mais aussi</h3>';
$block = module_invoke('views', 'block', 'view', 'Actu_News2');
print $block['content'];
echo '</div></td></tr>';
?>

I should probably not use tables here but it was the fastest and easiest way to build the page.

The main part of the code is 

$block = module_invoke('views', 'block', 'view', 'Actu_News2');
print $block['content'];

Where it says that my block is coming from Views and is called Actu_News2. You can find this kind of information when you point at the links allowing to edit the blocks on the admin build blocks page. :)

Hope it helps!