By fkdsfodsf on

I just migrated over to drupal on Technology and Change.

http://www.technologyandchange.com/

For this design I was really trying to push the limits of Drupal's fixed 3 column layout and stand apart from the myriad of 3 column layouts so common for mambo, drupal, and phpnuke. Structurally (I tried to hide this with backgrounds), the layout is a simple 3 column tabled design (yuk I know) which utilizes the mobules to great a unique asymmetrical layout. I chose a color scheme which uses strong earthly colors to show both strength and sustainable progress. I feel the deep and rich colors fullfilled this requirement. Both the green navigation menu and far right white boxes are Drupal blocks. The top centered yellow search bar in a drupal php include. The design makes extensive use of non-structural css and hard coding sitewide links to minimize the bandwidth.

I hope you enjoy it and I would love some feedback.

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Samat Jain’s picture

Samat Jain commented

I like it! Nice use of colors. The font sizes on some things like node titles are sort of big though. Consider sizing them down a bit.

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sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

All your top links have PHPSSID's in them. The fix is listed in the forums somewhere.

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fkdsfodsf’s picture

fkdsfodsf commented

They do? Hmmm... I can't seem to replicate this problem. Wierd.

Anyone else seeing this?

birken@drupal.tredive.dk’s picture

birken@drupal.tredive.dk commented

Yep, I see them too.

Except that now when I refresh the page, they're gone. Weird. Could it have something to do with cookie handling?

fkdsfodsf’s picture

fkdsfodsf commented

Ya, I was able to replicate it by loading the site with IE for the first time. However, when I refreshed the page they went away.

Will the phpsessid fixes solve this problem?

fkdsfodsf’s picture

fkdsfodsf commented

I have added:

php_value session.use_only_cookies 1
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0

to the htaccess

Anyone who hasn't already loaded the site still see the problem?

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

They seem to be gone now. It's just one of those 'little' things :).
Very nice design too. Have fun with it.

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fkdsfodsf’s picture

fkdsfodsf commented

Thanks for the help sep and brik.

I NEVER would of found that bug on my own.

jmengle’s picture

jmengle commented

Really cool site... great design, great concept. I really like it. The only thing that strikes me as out of place are the blue links in the center column. The color doesn't seem to mesh with the rest of the theme. Great work, though!

fkdsfodsf’s picture

fkdsfodsf commented

I've long been torn in regard of the center column link color.

Your right that from a purely visual standpoint a different color would be better. But I have always worried about straying from the standard "blue text = link" theory of design.

lennart’s picture

lennart commented

Consider your audience - they might not all have resolutions of 1024 * 768 or higher.

Otherwise really nice design

Best regards,
Lennart

Best regards,
Lennart

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

scaled right down.

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fkdsfodsf commented

The template was designed for 800x600 minimum and to my knowledge works fine on that resolution.

The template can APPEAR not to fix 800x600 if you load the page in a high resolution and then scale down the window without reloading the page. This is simply because I used tables (in order to let legacy browsers work better) instead of div tags. I don't think it will be a problem because most users are not constantly manually resizing their browser window

If anyone is interested I'd be happy to release under GPL a beta version of an alternative layout people were very impressed with. Someone would just have to spend an hour or so replacing my hardcodings with drupal tags.

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

If you hit my contact form, I can give it a shot and add it to the themes download.

-sp
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Drupal Best Practices Guide - My stuff Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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lennart commented

I scaled my window down - and did not try it in 800 * 600 natively, sorry. I am glad your site workds great.

Good luck!

Best regards,
Lennart

Best regards,
Lennart