Stonehenge Solved: new Drupal website
iantresman - May 7, 2008 - 13:49
New Drupal Website announcement:
Stonehenge Solved:
Its Three Observatories, Who built them, How and Why
Why Drupal?
- The client wanted the ability to be able to post-edit, and it was faster and more convenient if they could make their own corrections when it suited them.
- There was talk of visitors being able to leave comments, Although this was not included at launch, at least it can be "switched on" when required.
- Consistent design throughout, based on the CristalX4Drupal theme
- Ability to shield the client from most of the "complicated" administrative features
Drupal and Additional Modules
- Drupal 5.7 (not enough modules available in Drupal v6 yet)
- Lightbox2 (because the pop-up images looks great!)
- Backup and Migrate (you can't be too careful)
- Pathauto (descriptive URLs help the search engines)
- Poormanscron (handles housekeeping)
- Search Engine Referers (good to know how people reach the site)
- Update status (make sure modules up current)
- Whizzywig (lets the client edit pages more easily)
- CAPTCHA (to help stop spam)
- XML Sitemap (more search engine help)
- Core options enabled: Color, Contact (does the contact form), Help, Menu, Path, Search, Statistics
- "Create new Revision"s enabled in Content type, so the client can always revert back to a good version of the page
Issues
None really. I'd like to have done all the illustrations "properly", and uploaded them as nodes, so I could auto-generate a gallery and list of illustrations.
Zen
How did you apply that CSS style to this theme. Did you start with Zen theme?
I uploaded and enabled the
I uploaded and enabled the CristalX4Drupal theme, and then made half a dozen changes to its style.css file, and edited its heading.jpg file to get the stonehenge image in place. I also made a minor change to its page.tpl.php in order to hard-wire the copyright into place.