By fuzzydru on

hi everyone,
i would like to introduce to you a new creation of drupal website: http://www.beyondtrails.com

This site is still beta and needs finalization, but I would like to get drupal developer input on the setup.

this website is supposed to get a base for everyone looking for related info on

    Outdoor Activities
    Trail/Location/Activity Description
    Trail/Location/Activity Maps
    User exchange forums
    User Galleries
    User Shops
    etc.

Any kind of feedback (preferable from users who like to play in natures backyard) are more then appreciated.
thanks and I'm looking forward hearing from you,
Felix

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fuzzydru commented

no one? this site must be worth some comment.

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smallfluffykat commented

Few comments - you might want to get rid of your PHP session ID's in the address bar - they look kind of ugly.
I couldn't get the kayaking video to play in either firefox or IE. Maybe someone else can check this to make sure it's not just a plugin problem with my browsers.
Your WC3 button seems to result in a weird Javascript alert - is this my browser again?
I like the look of your gallery - it's nice a clean looking but the bottom of the grey background the pictures sit in appears to be cut off in both FF and IE. It wouldn't matter but it appears to cut off text and whatever the box thing is under the Members album on the main gallery page.
I can't get the map to show in IE without IE throwing an error and going white with a page can not be found message.
The different header banners are cool - it's a nice litlle easter egg for people checking your site's functionality! ;-)
Your front page is very long - maybe you could take a few blocks out and just display them on other pages?
Apparently I'm not authorised to view the weather section. Is this intentional?

So...um...that's a lot of nit-picks but honestly I think your site looks very nice. It looks decent in both browsers (although I think the FF version looks cooler) and your subject should give you loads of gorgeous photos and interesting content. I look forward to seeing it when it's more populated with content.

Hope this helps...

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fuzzydru commented

thanks for your comment.
obviously, I'm developing on mac. ;) that's why some of the mentioned issues haven't come to my attention yet. i will have a closer look at those and fix them.

sorry, the weather module is now acessable for public. i hacked it together the last 2 days and it's absolute beta right now. having said that everything around it works though. you can, standard-weather.com-like, search for your location/city and it gives you the possible results back which you can choose from. the reason i went for weather.com xml feed is simply because i wanted to be able to display weather locations from around the globe (and to be able to distribute the module later for public use).

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michelle
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commented

It's nice and simple. Is that a custom theme?

Michelle

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intel352 commented

i love the theme, although the search box and footer aren't quite my taste. but the appearance of the rest of the site is nice. good to see a site that isn't too obvious about being drupal :-)

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Marco Palmero commented

Great stuff...

I think you hacked one of the themes from:
http://negen.altervista.org/?q=themes
as it looks vaguely similiar to nautis.com

But the theme is great - wish I had more time to work on my theme...

As others have mentioned - you might want to do something with the search box.

With the gallery are you using G2? with the shopping cart activated?

looks good.

When I browse to http://www.beyondtrails.com/gallery&g2_view=map.ShowMap my browser IE6 gets halted... couldn't load something

One random pic is on its side:
DSC00212

Is the weather page something you made or is it a module?

Oh, on the weather page, when I searched for my city (Sydney) it found it but on the "search results page"
The page showed the results and asking the length of forecast and to hit the "get weather" button - the confusing part is when it shows the search box again - "Enter your City/Location:" maybe you can remove that from the page?

Am I correct in guessing that you are using flexinode for this section:
"Start: 02/02/2006 - 10:00
End: 22/03/2006 - 17:00
Timezone: -7: US Mountain"?

Good site overall.

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My Blog - Photography, travelling and University...

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fuzzydru commented

theme is based on the "negen9-1" from http://negen.altervista.org/?q=themes . it gave me the best start for the site. maybe, i will hack my own later.

well, the search box seems to be an issue. ;) i will try to find a better way.

the weather module is my own hack and is souly beta right now. let me know what you think and i will try to make it public once i have the code cleaned up. i'm trying to use the main elements of the xml-feed of http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html . weather data will be stored in the database for performance reason.
i'm also thinking about relating the module to the local.module and let the user set his default location while editing his account.

the 'start', 'end' in a blog is related to the event.module.

thanks again for your feedback.
felix

btw, this is first time working on a cms again after developing for PHPNuke years ago. so please, bare with me. i'm just getting to know Drupal - and i love it.