Monarch Digital

By ultimateboy on 10 Mar 2008 at 22:41 UTC

After hours and hours of design time, followed by countless days of development, Monarch Digital's theme as been completely revamped. The goal of this new theme was to give a much more professional look to Monarch to hopefully escalate the size of contacts.

This site has a basic taxonomy structure and uses path-auto and automatic nodetitles to create URLS and page titles. (I am also an avid user of the Page Title module to help with SEO)

Most of the functionality is hidden to non-administer users. For example, we post proofs of photography and video using a content type created by CCK. I have created several different views which allow us to easily find recent and archived proofs. Finally, I have created a fairly complex display using contemplate. These proofs can be commented on by clients allowing us to quickly and easily receive feedback.

We extensively use simplenews to publish semi-monthly newsletters which have a custom simplenews template which matches our theme.

The main function of this site is not the functionality, but merely the appearance. Hopefully this redesign will provide a consistent look and feel to company to attach higher-end clients.

If you have any questions about the implementation of any of the features described above, feel free to ask. Also, take a look around our site to see some of our recent web development work.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy,