Planning a new site for a very small retail store selling specialized designer quality items.
Sales are not expected to be made from the site. The site is to promote and encourage the site user to contact the store.
A google map thingy will "help them find their way". LOL
Basically the site will be static content produced at the server side only.
I need W3C compliant theme choices that are structured but not standard looking block and menu stuff.
I not thinking of fancy off the wall kind of theme here, just different. The flash stuff is out of the question.
The designer desires white background pages for all articles and color scheme that is easy on the eyes.
In other words, no extreme color variations to distract from content.
The loading time for the site has to be pretty good even for dial ups. The graphics will be in places other than the frontpage.
The stategy is for the user to get on the frontpage quickly, and then choices available (that are graphic) will be the users choice.
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This will be a commercial kind of site and hopefully we can build a unique enough SEO package to get enough hits.
Basic SEO requirements, if possible. It's been awhile since I worked with Drupal, and I never really got a handle on it then.
I found there were modules that addressed most of the below items, but there seemed to be alot of workarounds.
Possibly the modules that are used for the below items work better with the current Drupal release.
---1) Full Title tag control
---2) Full Meta tag control
---3) SEO friendly URLs
---4) Control of title & alt attributes for Tags and Images
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The site should contain articles of interest, a gallery with some video, contact form.
A few ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Some modules to look
Some modules to look at:
For video it depends somewhat on the type of video you want to use (flv, avi, mov, etc). Entering the extension for the type of video you plan to use into the 'Search downloads" box should get you to the available modules. Two one-stop shop video handlers that come to mind are http://drupal.org/project/jquery_media and http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2.
As for themes, check the ones available on drupal.org and see if any come close to what you are looking for. Changing colors and images is relatively easy if you have even a passing familiarity with css and html. Another option is to use one of the starter themes (zen, framework, genesis, hunchbaque, etc) which are made to be easily customizable.
good luck ;-)
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