billdavisracing.com up and running, whew!!!
Hello All,
After a couple hundred hours and thousands of indirect tips from the Drupal community, I'm proud to announce the launch of my first Drupal effort. I just flipped the switch on http://billdavisracing.com this morning. With the NASCAR race season beginning today I was under huge time pressure but managed to get the job done. I still have lots of tweaks and improvements to make and content to add, but...I'm more than well on my way.
Not only did I want to pat myself on the back in this arena (by the way, I'm open and interested in any critiques or criticisms that you guys have), I also wanted to thank the Drupal developers and and the Drupal community in general for creating a such a powerful tool. My horizons have been greatly expanded as this site was converted from a FrontPage 2000 site. Great work, now that I'll have a few extra hours here and there I'll have to check out 6.x to see what the future holds.
That's it for now. Have a wonderful day!!!
Russ Winters
nice!
now that is a great looking site!
~silverwing - get rid of the druplicon favicon!
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MisguidedThoughts | showcaseCMS
Ahhhh
Geez, you'd think after looking at this thing for weeks I would've noticed that. Thanks!!!
Cool Site
What modules are you using for the start page?
Start Page
Hey Willi, I'm not using any modules to specifically generate the home page or the team home pages, here's what I did:
The graphical part of the navigation is all external HTML/CSS that gets included into my page.tpl.php.
The home page(s) themselves are just normal nodes that have been "Promoted to Front Page". Since I'm not using this flag for it's intended purpose, I use it as a condition in my node.tpl.php to affect the the style class for the node.
<div class="node<?php if ($node->promote) { print " front"; } ?>">
...then in my css I use...
.front {
display: none;
}
...to hide the node title and body.
This way the page title (in the title bar) is correct but I don't have to put the slideshow code in the node. If I ever wanted to use that node content for something I can just un-promote it from the front page and, viola.
Everything else on the home pages are just blocks set to only display for certain nodes.
The slideshow, merchandise and sponsors blocks all use Jereon Wijering's Image Rotator and some code in my template.php to select the playlist depending on the subtheme being used (giving me a context sensitive block).
That's pretty much it. I've tried from the beginning to use as few contributed modules as possible to get the job done. So far I'm only using:
I hope this answers your question.
Russ
Start Page
Thank's Russ for that inside information of your great site. It's very interessting to know and learn how cool sites are made up.
contemplate
Interesting commment on Contemplate. Personally I don't like using it as it writes the template code to a database so I'm never quite sure what can over ride what (probably my being stupid). Also contemplate doesn't work so well if you are using imagecache, which you are not.
Saying that where I do find it very valuable is that it gives me a list of available cck fields -- it also shows you how ridiculous all those divs are ...
File based templates
Hi John, Contemplate does support file-based templates that live in /sites/all/contemplates. I'm still trying to decide which div tags I need and which ones I can toss. Time pressure forced be to cruise past a few details like that during round one.
contemplate
Interesting commment on Contemplate. Personally I don't like using it as it writes the template code to a database so I'm never quite sure what can over ride what (probably my being stupid). Also contemplate doesn't work so well if you are using imagecache, which you are not.
Saying that where I do find it very valuable is that it gives me a list of available cck fields -- it also shows you how ridiculous all those divs are ...
contemplate
Interesting commment on Contemplate. Personally I don't like using it as it writes the template code to a database so I'm never quite sure what can over ride what (probably my being stupid). Also contemplate doesn't work so well if you are using imagecache, which you are not.
Saying that where I do find it very valuable is that it gives me a list of available cck fields -- it also shows you how ridiculous all those divs are ...
Great site
Russ -- great site. Good to see NASCAR getting on to the Drupal bandwagon
Real Nice
Great job! Site looks great, and is easy to move around...
Really great looking drupal
Really great looking drupal powered site.
Nice work done.
Question about contemplate: is there some good article/tutorial about contemplate ?
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Alan F.
themeartists.com
Contemplate Tutorial
Hello Alan,
My info on Contemplate evolved after looking at a video tutorial found here (http://www.theartlab.net/drupal-school-custom-content-types-cck-imagefie...). It's really nothing fancy but does tie everything together and was enough to get me started on the right track.
Take Care
Russ
Very impressed
I think the site is fantastic.
I especially like the way you have all of the car numbers with their own menu.