By 8manj-dupe on

Hello Community,

I wanted to share with you a project we are particulary proud of, both in terms of design / layout and functionality. The site is called Kitchen Goddess and can be viewed at the following address:

www.kitchengoddess.co.uk

We have made full use of some of Drupals best features and additional modules which are becoming a necessary for nearly all our builds. The site is a magazine style site with various sections, directories, search facilities, competitions, pay per node functions, HTML newsletter etc etc.

The site is constantly growing, we are pleased to say that now in the hands of the client, new content is added regulary and the site is slowly massing a large user following. If you are into cooking, eating out, social drinking or just keeping up with current social events I do suggest you signup, a newsletter is sent weekly to your email address with loads of new stuff. If like me you have young children, check out the childrens recipes, they are some really wicked ideas!!

I would love to hear from other Drupal designers and developers to see their thoughts and feedback on the site.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

socialtalker’s picture

socialtalker commented

What a pretty site! love the translucent labels and the color change of the backgroud, and its nicely organized.

i dont see any comments or ratings like for the recipes, the customers didnt want those options?

-Anti-’s picture

-Anti- commented

> love the translucent labels and the color change of the background

Yes, me too. Any insight on how to do those things would be welcome.

ztyx’s picture

ztyx commented

A good looking site but you are lacking any type of description of the site. Who is hosting it? Is it community based?

Keep on rocking,

Jens

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minesota commented

Very good indeed!

Though I feel design wise, there is lot of empty space on the right side, adjacent to the site logo.
Maybe the the menu tabs can be taken there or the logo put adjacent to 'Spotlight' or a picture (bannershaped) be rotated in the elongated empty space?

It will be nice to know what version of Drupal you are using - 5.10, 5.11 ?
What are the non-core modules you are using?
Any special performance tweaks?
What webhosting?

Congrats for the nice work!

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badabing commented

Nice work m8.

Can u tell us how u made those translucent text over an image?

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8manj-dupe commented

Hello,

I will try and answer as many of the queries you have...

socialtalker...
Firstly the recipes do not have community based feedback, this was not requested by the client at point of development, but it is definitely worth mentioning to continue the progress sof the site, a very good suggestion to bring the ever increasing mass of users to input to the site.

-Anti-...
The labels were done with CSS, we used views theme wizard and panels to get the layout (call the correct content etc) and then CSS the effect you see (we were planning something more adventurous, but the IE6 lack of png24 support held us back, even now I'm not happy as the CSS transperancy is not official valid code, but it does the trick.

ztyx...
Detail on the site as requested...

  • Hosted in the UK by EUKhost, we normally host our own sites but the client requested something with a more dedicated edge
  • Non a community input site directly, a user may choose to add content by paying for the node, but as yet there is not direct free community input available, although it does seem to be a good progression to consider.

minesota...

  • The large space to the right of the logo should have an external sourced ad, there is some performance issue with these but you should see a 468x60px advert, as there should be 300x250 ads within the content
  • Currently running version 5.12 of Drupal - no plans as yet to migrate to D6
  • Non standard modules, there are loads, most dependent on views and panels, which have developed heavily on to get the feature content and split node content into the various panel areas. Imagecache plays a massive role as does mailout. The site also has pay-per-node ecommerce functionality. Of course CCK (there are over 2o content types) and JCarousel provide some movement, there is nothing extremely unusual module wise, taxonomy plays a massive role, but its pretty mush views and panels!
  • No special performance tweaks enabled, we will only be adding the standard Drupal cache and CSS compression once all the tiny tweaks are added
  • Hosted in the UK by EUKhost, we normally host our own sites but the client requested something with a more dedicated edge

badabing...
The labels were done with CSS, we used views theme wizard and panels to get the layout (call the correct content etc) and then CSS the effect you see (we were planning something more adventurous, but the IE6 lack of png24 support held us back, even now I'm not happy as the CSS transparency is not official valid code, but it does the trick.

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badabing commented

Wow really astunning. Thanks for that very long post where u replied everyone here. This is a couple months work?

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8manj-dupe commented

Sorry, been away a while, yes the project was drawn out for a couple of months, mainly down to moving goalposts (clients, who'd have them!!)

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Witgoedreparateur commented

Very nice work!