I'm still putting the finishing touches on the site but it's mostly finished.
I've worked with drupal for the last 2 years but this is the first drupal 6 site I've built.
I'm really loving the new views module, took a while to get my head around it but it's so powerful.
The biggest problem I had was with getting the correct breadcrumbs, I think it would be nice to see a separate breadcrumbs module to control them, or perhaps tie it in with pathauto since my breadcrumbs should always reflect my pathauto urls.
Had a little play with the new panels module as well, great work, really good interface and very easy to use.
Views Slideshow is a great little module that I used in the favourites block to display anything I like (I just promote that item of content to the Front Page and views slideshow picks it up)
Lightbox2 is super impressive, big leap forward, highly configurable module. I'd always used thickbox with my ubercart sites but i'm hoping ubercart supports lightbox2 in the future.
I'm a little disappointed Imagecache actions isn't out for drupal 6 yet, I love imagecache and would really like to utilise imagecache actions on the site for watermarking etc.
Had a play around with the Storm module for project management. I like it but it's a bit fiddly and adds tons of content types and stuff. I think i'll do my project management on a separate drupal installation, as a multisite setup.
The theme is a mod of garland that allows me to put big graphics all over the place. I love being able to change the colors whenever I like.
One of my favourite features in drupal is it's taxonomy system, absolute genius.
Overall Drupal 6 is awesome. I've never used a CMS that was so flexible and powerful. Since using drupal over the past 2 years I haven't built any sites using anything else, and I don't plan to in the future. I'm a little surprised that drupal 6 has been out for so long and yet so many modules aren't ready for it yet and I find it a little concerning hearing about drupal 7 when some key drupal 6 modules like views and panels aren't complete.
I'd love to get some feedback on the site, does it seem slow loading to you?
Cheers,
matt
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colors for tag cloud blocks?
hi matt and thanks
great work...!
just wondering how you got the diffrerent, variable colors going in your tag cloud blocks?
any advice would be greatly appreciated.
thanks again-
vincent, in buffalo
http://basicmagic.net
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buffalo, new york usa
I'm using the tagadelic
I'm using the tagadelic module for the tag clouds, then i used Panels to place the 3 groups on the home page.
Do you think it's a good layout? The idea is that it's very quick to find out about certain skills for someone visiting the site who has work in a particular area. But I think it's a little confusing for other people.
Tagadelic lets you set the number of levels to use, i'm using 10.
Then in my theme's style.css file i've got this at the bottom:
/*tagadelic*/
.wrapper.tagadelic {
text-align : justify;
margin-right: 1em;
}
.tagadelic:link, .tagadelic:visited, .tagadelic:active {
diplay:block;
padding:2px 8px 2px 0;
}
.tagadelic.level1 {font-size : 1em;}
.tagadelic.level2 {font-size : 1.1em;}
.tagadelic.level3 {font-size : 1.15em;}
.tagadelic.level4 {font-size : 1.2em;}
.tagadelic.level5 {font-size : 1.25em;}
.tagadelic.level6 {font-size : 1.3em;}
.tagadelic.level7 {font-size : 1.35em;}
.tagadelic.level8 {font-size : 1.4em;}
.tagadelic.level9 {font-size : 1.45em;}
.tagadelic.level10 {font-size : 1.5em;}
.level1:link, .level1:visited, .level1:active {color:#ddd;}
.level2:link, .level2:visited, .level2:active {color:#ccc;}
.level3:link, .level3:visited, .level3:active {color:#bbb;}
.level4:link, .level4:visited, .level4:active {color:#aaa;}
.level5:link, .level5:visited, .level5:active {color:#999;}
.level6:link, .level6:visited, .level6:active {color:#888;}
.level7:link, .level7:visited, .level7:active {color:#777;}
.level8:link, .level8:visited, .level8:active {color:#666;}
.level9:link, .level9:visited, .level9:active {color:#555;}
.level10:link, .level10:visited, .level10:active {color:#444;}
.tagadelic:hover{
background-color:#eee;
color:#444;
text-decoration:none;
diplay:block;
}
Only just did it actually, i like the fade effect a lot. Should be even better when i've got more content cos it will show up with more levels of tags. Haven't really tested it in IE etc but looks good in linux firefox.
Drupal Freelance : Brighton uk
alternate for breadcrumbs
matt, very nice - regarding breadcrumb issues, take a look at clickpath as a complete repalcement with more control:
http://drupal.org/project/clickpath
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Cheers Zilla, that module
Cheers Zilla, that module looks good, I'll have a play with it.
Drupal Freelance : Brighton uk
love your site
good work, i just launched my own site on drupal 7
it also has a portfolio page
http://www.portable-design.com/portfolio
let me know what you think
regards,
Adrian
portable-design