Roople with Drupal

I have few sites running on Drupal and I am blown away with the new drag and drop features!

Being that I have been running on Drupal since 4.6 I have been blown away with of how fast the community has grown and how well the system better than anything I have ever used online before. I have been promoting my services online now for over 8 years. And my best efforts have been with Drupal!

All The Best!

Johnny

Poking around in the themes - I looked at The Internet Corporation theme! Its amazing how first impressions can really make you wonder how hard the theme will be to edit and customize.

Some slight editing of the CSS and this theme is pretty clean! Move over Roople, Light Jazz can take a rest.
Don't even need to worry about the nice menus - they are cleaner looking than ever before!
A little more clean up is needed on the css but hey this theme can even handle the larger images I have posted on the site for Free Desktops!!! And again the site looks light enough for a wedding photographer's website!

Reasons I search the Drupal themes and put much time in reviewing the power of the theme and why after one year toying with the provided themes I have ended up here on March 11th 2008 after 13 months and 4 major theme concepts that only require hours of editing not weeks of editing.

Including Aberdeen, Blue Breeze, Blue Zone, Foliage, litejazz, and finally the current arrival at Internet Corporation!

All these themes support left hand side bars for your menus. Which allows proper use of the image module that automatically produces a original link for the observations of original uploaded files. Some themes just don't work with this with the fixed right side sidebars getting in the way. Of course not all Drupal users will need to display large samples like I need to for my destination brides wanting to view samples with ease online. But this is a powerful way to utilize the effectiveness of Drupal very powerful image module!

The next reason for testing these themes is even though the quality of monitors on average has improve most folks still prefer to browse a site of under 1024px wide which requires a theme that has a slick layout working resolutions around 900px wide but is still able to display extra large images without leaving the current page ( like this free desktop http://mybanffphotographer.com/node/488?size=_original ) . It's a lot to ask - a site that can have hundreds and even thousands images to exhibit and sell with ease, still be compact, and fool proof to navigate for e commerce of packages and the sale of independent download files as well - Drupal does all of this with ease for the photographer that is burden by the high over head of daily operation in a Prime Resort location like Banff with rents higher than large cities with a very seasonal earning period!

What a dream to edit in just over a hour with building a new intro.jpg !!

Worth the go a sharp looking as well!
J

http://mybanffphotographer.com

It's been only 4 days since i posted this reply about my success gaining the top 10 of Google with the 2 most searched keywords for my region. Now with much dedication.. updating my site on regular basis and adding fresh content that is rich with strong key words have come from a listing of number 10 out of top 10 to a listing of number 5! This is an amazing jump for just 4 days as this top ten group are core businesses that have dominated the top ten for years. Some of these companies have huge marketing dollars and yet my humble efforts with a very little marketing budget is still catching on to the number one listing which is a company that incomes at least 30 times what I income in a years time.

The only difference is I am running on Drupal - they have a flash landing page with a few links an a 3 image slide show

Go Drupal!

So be sure when your building your site make sure you have important keywords on every page in every sentence . Make sure that your key words used in the node words module follows the content you are adding.

Reasons I am with Drupal - The Top Ten!

1) The Freedom to Update on a Regular Daily basis regardless where I am on the Planet.

2) I can add almost what ever kind of content I wish.

3) A group of modules that run bug free and are tested by solid developers.

4) Themes that are easy to edit with very little prior knowledge - Did not have any really web developing training before I STUMBLED on to Drupal.

5) Flexible content display

6) E commerce that integrates with CORE better than any other paid E commerce application that you can purchase. This is a huge one for - there is nothing worst than building a store front that is invisible to search engines.

7) Security updates almost once every three months at the least.

8) The most real time Website Statistics Admin Panel I have ever seen.

9) I can install a Drupal site in about 5 minutes.

10) The most important reason I am with Drupal is the Community. These people are real people - yes we do think that Drupal is the best but with infrastructure of support. The huge amount information that branches into so many solutions in every forum thread. Drupal can truly help Individuals like myself. 2 years ago I was in financial mayhem and with following some basic SEO guidelines to success and Drupals amazing power and huge support group online 24/7/ 365. I am now in the top ten with zero monies spent on pay per click with the most searched key words for the region in my industry. This would have cost me hundreds of dollars per month alone with Google and I would have never have grown as much as I have with all I have learned on my most favorite website!

If you are just starting online keep your faith and remember if you give your new relationship with Drupal a chance you won't be sorry how far you will go if you do your part because the Drupal Core has gone further than most programs I have seen folks pay huge dollars for in less time!

As basic as this is I hope this helps new folks looking for a reliable Online solution that has more of a Future compared to most solutions I have tried.

Johnny