By andre75 on
I am proud to say that I have finished transfering my static website to Drupal:
http://www.aguntherphotography.com/
- I have close to 1500 pictures online. I have chosen Acidfree to present them, as it was a perfect solution for me.
The worst pain was to create those many path aliases to make sure that google does not get too upset over the transfer. - I transfered my Photo Journal from Blogger to Drupal relatively easily using this script:
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/junyor/import...
It worked without a hitch. The reason I lost my comments was, that I forgot to set the user permissions for anonymous comments. Since I didn't have a whole lot, I didn't redo this step - Not all of the origninal files could be represented by path aliases. Since my website was static, an album had multiple index files (eg. index2.html, index3.html). I wanted to forward them using .htaccess. It took me quite some time to find out, that mod rewrite with Drupal is a little different. You have to terminate each rewrite with [L] so that the line:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]does not get executed. So my mod-rewrites look something like this:
RewriteRule ^(.*)index2.html$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1index.html?from=9 [R=301,L]They have to be inserted before the line for clean urls (the one above).
- I set a couple of rewrites for the pictures that are hotlinked the most. While most people are against hotlinking, I do have the url on each image so I consider this advertisement
- My tutorials are now a book - very convenient.
- My wallpapers are a book too. This may see odd, but it works much better than a gallery, since I have multiple download links below most of them
I would like to thank the Drupal Community for all your help and a CMS second to none!
Naturally I am very open to feedback of any kind.
Andre
http://www.aguntherphotography.com
http://www.opentravelinfo.com
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I like it
Andre, that is a really fine looking photosite you have there. Especially the brushed metallic look is pleasant for the eyes and everything is very 'clean'. Just the way I like it.
And.... nice pictures as well (have been to Mexico myself and enjoyed seeing all the places I had been as well).
greetings
MJ
Thanks :-)
Thanks a lot. I got the brushed metal style from here:
http://drupal.org/node/34630
For the first couple of hours after I updated my website I was online and monitoring as the yahoo crawler showed up in my watchdog, I was able to figure out the path aliases that I had wrong and a couple of redirects to put into my .htaccess file.
Andre
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http://www.opentravelinfo.com
http://www.aguntherphotography.com
Very nice. And, thanks for
Very nice. And, thanks for sharing the process with the community. The .htaccess tip is invaluable.
If I understand you correctly:
1.) You used only Acid Free
2.) The .htm paths are generated by pathauto
Some suggestions:
1.) Link to opentravelinfo in a distinct way. Right now, the menu seems as if it is part of the photo site, but the user is landed on an entirely diff. site without warning.
2.) The Main link in the top nav seems redundant
3.) How about linking to specific travel guides from opentravelinfo from specific sections of your photo site? Say, European guides from the european sections etc. Or, you could even use the publish and subscription contrib modules to pull in info on the relevant pages of the photo site.
Yes
Yes, correct.
Thanks for the tip. Its a good idea. I changed the link and put it somewhere lese.
The Home button is there for people that do not know Drupal (clicking on the banner). When you browse galleries it takes you back to the main site quickly.
Thanks for your feedback!!!
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http://www.opentravelinfo.com
http://www.aguntherphotography.com