Site Redesign

setfree - February 4, 2008 - 22:38

Team Hope was my first ever Drupal site. I made it several months ago and posted it to the Showcase Forum with out any fanfare :( Not one posted comment was made, lol.

Since then (with a lot of help from the Drupal Pro development book) I have leaned a lot, so I redesigned my first site. It's light on content now but more will come later. I'd really appreciate any input, critiques, comments, etc. I'm going to announce the new site design to all the newsletter subscribers in two days and wanted some improvement tips first.

http://team-hope.org

Thanks~

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ray_223 - February 4, 2008 - 23:36

I don't have any constructive comments other then ... nice site ;)

looks really good. Did you make your own theme? or use a current theme?

Ray Smith
http://RaymondSmith.com

Thanks...

setfree - February 5, 2008 - 01:56

Thanks. I modified a free css template from http://www.freecsstemplates.org .

The Cosmic Gift | Complete Computer Care | Team Hope

Very good looking theme. I

zeta ζ - February 5, 2008 - 01:19

Very good looking theme.

I have three suggestions;

you have;
margin: auto; vertical-align: middle;
on the paragraph in the mission statement. What you need is padding on the surrounding div, and adjust the size to match. eg.
#mission { height: 50px; padding: 5px 16px; width: 668px; }
You could pre-load the rollover images for your menu tabs: bit of a delay first time you mouse-over.
http://drupal.org/project/bible or http://drupal.org/project/scripturefilter might be useful.

Cool, thanks!

setfree - February 5, 2008 - 01:58

I implemented the css change suggestion and made the tab rollover images into sprites (one image that is shifted).

I discover the scripturefilter module after I had hard-coded all of the scripture links into this site. I have used the module on another site and it works great. One day I will remove the hard coding and add it to this site.

Thanks for the tips!!

The Cosmic Gift | Complete Computer Care | Team Hope

Really nice design.Only,

alan.fork - February 5, 2008 - 13:44

Really nice design.

Only, ... You could add some more visual appealing background in header of your drupal theme (some graphics ?)

Alan F.
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