By nautis on

After using XOOPS for the past year and using Mambo for another site, I discovered Drupal via the urlgreyhot.com site. I have a few sites, but I decided to pilot Drupal on my personal web site, Nautis Project. My day job is management consulting (IT Strategy and Knowledge Management) - so I work with information architects quite a bit. I'm impressed by Drupal's taxonomy core. This system seems to have been built correctly from the ground up. Some of the most sophisticated content management systems out there (Interwoven, Vignette, Documentum) have still not mastered this idea very well. I've written quite a bit about Content Management elsewhere, here and here. Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you to the development team for making this freely available. It's a remarkable product.

Nautis Project: When I'm not working, I study evolutionary biology. I'm a big fan of Henri Bergson, Rupert Sheldrake, Carl Jung, etc. In addition to my personal blog, it's a collection of papers (thanks to the articles module) by academic types writing on similar subjects.

http://www.nautis.com/

Theme inspired by the negen9 theme and SimpleBits' cool, green rollovers. Thanks.

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Rick Cogley’s picture

Rick Cogley commented

Nice-looking site!

Rick Cogley :: rick.cogley@esolia.co.jp
Tokyo, Japan

drunsen’s picture

drunsen commented

Excellent design. It looks outstanding in Firefox. In Internet Explorer, the right-hand column (latest articles, recent blog posts, etc.) is way, way down the screen. Not sure if that can be fixed, but you might look into it. If you were to fix that, Nautis is rock solid. Apart from that, it's hard to tell the difference between "home" and "journal." The content for both seems to be quite similar; I'd suggest static content for "home" and blog content for "journal." I mean, I was convinced--for a long time--that Dr. Sheldrake was personally contributing to Nautis. It looks cool to see his name there (not as cool as Stephen J. Gould, mind you), but it's misleading.

Overall, a gorgeous accomplishment. It certainly belongs in the Zen echelon.

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Dublin Drupaller commented

Very very nice design and layout nautis. very well thought out.

Dub

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Using Drupal to help build Artist & Band web communities.

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

Steven’s picture

Steven commented

The design is quite nice and colorful. I just don't like a couple of things:

  • The white text on the golden background for the mission is very hard to read on my screen.
  • The form edit boxes (e.g. log-in) look identical to buttons due to the shading. Typically, edit boxes are in-set rather than out-set. Consider flipping the gradient around.
  • The fat shadow at the top edge of the page seems wrong, as the light source seems to be coming from that direction.
  • The header seems inconsistently flat compared to the rest of the page. A subtle shadow below the green bar could help. If it is supposed to be in-set into the white, add a similar shadow on the top/left/right edges of the blue area.
  • The font size for the header seems disproportionately small.

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crackerjackmack’s picture

crackerjackmack commented

I concur with steven. The white text on the golden background is very hard to read. I have a very nice LCD and it is still very hard to read. Maybe use a bold or more contrasting gold (less yellow) to make the white stand out more.

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gtoddv commented

I have looked at the site on both Firefox and Internet Explorer and find no significant difference. Easy to read, pleasant colors. Very impressive! I am also very interested, but not particularly knowledgeable, in evolutionary biology. I will be spending some time at nautis!

rjpa’s picture

rjpa commented

Absolutely stunning, ever thaught about releasing your theme to the public?

/rjpa

carl ditzler’s picture

carl ditzler commented

The theme he used, negen9, (and others like it) are publicly available [English version by Google], thanks to Federico.

dtamas’s picture

dtamas commented

Cool, but the author of SimpleBits is knowing that you rip his work?
It is not under CC or GPL as the template by ne9en!

[ dtamas ]

nautis’s picture

nautis commented

dtamas - I talked to Dan (simplebits.com), and he agreed. I restored the nav bar to the original. :( I'll try to jazz it up a little later.

Thanks everyone for your comments. I will try to incorporate many of your suggestions over the next few days. Also, everyone should check out http://negen.altervista.org. The themes there are really well done.

- Matthew

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Donovan commented

Nautis, your theme is absolutely stunning! I can definitely see the influences of negen 9 and simplebits; however, your derivative is anything but -- it stands on its own and is quite unique. Great work!

"It always seems impossible, until it is done."
- Nelson Mandela

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negen commented

Nice work nautis ;^)
great toolbar

Federico Olivieri
My blog | My themes | Negen @ Theme gaden

Stefanos Karagos’s picture

Stefanos Karagos commented

Very nice site!

is there any link for ur wonderfull theme?
if no could i donate some $ to have it? :)
yes im serious!

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negen’s picture

negen commented

You can get it here
http://negen.altervista.org/?q=themes

download negen 9-1

Federico Olivieri
http://negen.altervista.org/

Donovan’s picture

Donovan commented

This theme is just awesome. It gave my amateur site instant credibility. Check it out at http://www.extremeppc.com.

One problem though: the search box and button are misplaced at the top right of the page. The problem exists with both IE6 and the latest Firefox. Any ideas why?

"It always seems impossible, until it is done."
- Nelson Mandela

Rick Cogley’s picture

Rick Cogley commented

... your mission "bumping" it?

Rick Cogley :: rick.cogley@esolia.co.jp
Tokyo, Japan

negen’s picture

negen commented

Add an image logo in your admin/theme/settings page. The search box will shift down.

Federico Olivieri
http://negen.altervista.org

Donovan’s picture

Donovan commented

Thanks! That did the trick. Much appreciated.

"It always seems impossible, until it is done."
- Nelson Mandela

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kbahey commented

Federico

If you allow others to use the theme, then why not contribute it to the Drupal contrib repository, so anyone can get it?

It also gets a project page on its own like here http://drupal.org/project/Themes

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Donovan’s picture

Donovan commented

This theme is awesome; however it doesn't render properly with certain Drupal pages. I am not a theme or CSS expert, but I suspect it has something to do with the width of the content on each page. For example:

  • All of the "teasers" on my home page render beautifully;
  • However, when this particular post ("Follow-up on the STB incident") is selected, the right column is shifted waaay down and only shows up beneath the post.

    If I remove the comment, everything renders fine though.

    Any ideas what the cause (and fix) is?

    • "It always seems impossible, until it is done."
    - Nelson Mandela

    clairem’s picture

    clairem commented

    Very nice indeed -- clean and crisp, and very useable.

    But (like most sites) it could really do with a text-re-sizing facility. The default text size is just a little small for me, and would cause big problems for the visually-impaired.

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    marlowe commented

    Very nice work, a clean and elegant style. You are in my personal list of "best drupal sites".

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    mdroste commented

    at our regional Information Portal Swf-Info.de.

    But at this weekend we've made a complete redesign of our site.

    We like it very much.

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