By chronnus on

Hey guys,

I've finally completed my blog / portfolio , http://www.chronnus.com. I've been meaning to finish the site for awhile now but something always got in the way.

The site is built on Drupal 5.x, and uses the following modules : CCK, Views, Imagecache, Imagefield, Jquery_update, Nodeasblock, Pathauto, Simplemenu and a custom module for all custom functionality.

I also have three more Drupal projects on my portfolio page (http://www.chronnus.com/projects), Toledo City Government, YKK Bikes, and Arctech Solutions.

Soo, tell me what you think :). I'll also be happy to answer any questions that you guys might have

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that1guy commented

You have a very nicely designed site, congrats. I got to ask about the slideshow - tell me what you can about it! :D sadly it is a bit choppy for me on Opera. I'll try it out on other browsers to see how it is.

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chronnus commented

Thanks :). I'll check the site with Opera to see if i can solve the choppiness.

About the slideshow:

On the flash end, I started with the source of this tutorial : http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_slideshow.htm and customized it for my needs.

On Drupal i then made a new content type (featured_project) which basically has 4 node references with type project (another cck'd content type) and 4 textareas for the description. Initially I was thinking of using views but I wanted more control over which projects I show on the front page.

Custom_front is a function that basically spits out the xml that the flash gallery could use.It gets the node_id of the featured_project node, loads the node, then loads the nodes referenced in it, then formats the xml (grabs the node title, image_front field, and nid of the 4 referenced nodes) and outputs it.

Finally i point the flash gallery to the xml, and it takes care of everything else.

Let me know if that was unclear.

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dubovik commented

i like that garden theme.... looks good.