First I'd like to state drupal's nearly line-for-line the CMS I've always wanted to write, but never found time to. Consequently I've decided after reading through some of the module development portions of the handbook and elsewhere, to go with drupal as both a work and home solution for all of my project for the next year and beyond. any modules i wind up with that might be of use to the community, i'll do my best to publish in some manner. this from a 10 year LAMP developer and useability guy who's really, really psyched with what he's seen so far.
to get the feet wet on using drupal, i first used it to toss up a new blog site, which is here:
http://www.lespritdeslescalier.com
(the domain name is french, but the content is english)
i've got an education portal that we'll be showing off after new years as well. after that i've got three other (larrrrge scale) projects lined up to finish before april.
the blog's nothing terribly extended; fiddled with the blocks a bit and wrote a custom comments module that changed a few trivial details. i used kubrick as a starting reference when getting started with theming, but obviously it's fairly unreckognizable from its parent at this point.
comments welcome :]
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http://www.lespritdelescalier.com/ ?
http://www.lespritdelescalier.com/ ... right?
looks cool. very new-ish.
... arg I wish I could think of something better to say.
heehee, yup, thas the one
heehee, yup, thas the one :]
had a blog 6 years ago, moved to LJ for awhile, moving back to running my own show.
i've got my LJ readers to sign up for the syndication feed, though i'm not sure they've figured out how to reply and do much of anything yet. we'll see how it goes :P
Well, that's certainly a
Well, that's certainly a very different looking Drupal site.
Well done.
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thanks :]
thanks :]
I know what I should have said!
I know what I should have said! I like the two columns on the left thing, with the one column having a nice image that breaks things up. Cool stuff.
yeh, the idea being that
yeh, the idea being that everything sort of frames the main column i guess.
for the links, while i s'pose i could have done one large block, i made 12 custom blocks (labeled 1-12, weighted -10 through +1), so i can change any of the links easily enough.
block 2 also starts the alternate background color, which closes in block 10 or 11. it seemed a fun alternative to zebra stripes, if you know your block placement is more or less fixed.
i always thought the detriment to phpnuke sites was that they all looked identical other than the colors and what buckets were displayed. it's nice that drupal's flexible enough to keep all the rather powerful features intact on the admin side, without it just looking like "my generic, out-of-the-box portal site, install #372" on the front end, which obviously is overkill for a simple lil blog site like this.
Your site seems to be down.
Your site seems to be down. Unable to reach it.
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Yup, same problem here, but
Yup, same problem here, but by the time I scanned the thread and tried again, it was up.
If you care, you might have it monitored for a while. It seemed like a DNS problem as I got an instant "not found" alert box rather than a timeout or a 404 problem.
Site's up on my end
Site is up on my end.
Website looks good...
Its the graphics that really make it look unique. - Are they your own pictures/textures you photoshopped together?
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yup.
"Are they your own pictures/textures you photoshopped together?"
yup. the lil ghost guy is a tiny ceramic figurine that used to go on top of a haunted halloween house we'd put on the coffee table every year as a kid. the tin cup hangs in a shadowbox on the wall.
the stairwell is from an old papermill, clone tooled a bunch to look longer, and then using the liquify filter to achieve all the weird bendy shapes.
the raggedy looking homeless toy was a gift from an ex girlfriend. the barrels were google image search results. the weird stuff at the bottom of the bottle shape was all random brush strokes liquified and mixed with assorted insect imagery, some googlesearched, some from my own collection.
everything was masked out in photoshop and then placed together later, saving the masks so i could reuse them in future production graphics.
the funky metal satelite looking thing on the leftmost bar was the most involved piece.
that was a wacom sketch, using a camera lens and an old oiling can for reference. the sci-fi aztech patterns come from making random marquee selections and then stroking them on various layers with overlaying and softlit effects.
i then created photoshop patterns out of the result, and used the layer effects "texture" option and the pattern stamp to paint between the outlines of the structure, applying various levels of overlay and soft light to those as well. colored gradients were applied for the metalic and green hues, and lastly a black/white gradient was overlayed to increase the lighting source.
bigger version of that can be found at http://www.graphicsdesign.org/
a lot of the reference photos can be seen if you wade through http://www.awayfromkeyboard.com long enough, but there's a good 450 pages to that site currently, and i don't recall the specific image numbers offhand :]
DOWN AGAIN
Just tried to visit your site and it's not resolving again.
I think you're having DNS issues or server response issues. You should definitely get it nailed down. Don't know where you're hosting, but for super cheap hosting, I've had good luck with
- jaguarpc.com
- site5.com
people say good things about dreamhost, 1and1 and well... many others, but your host/server seems really flaky.
Good luck!
really strange.
i've been working on it here and there, but nothing that should generate a 404. i've been using phpwebhosting.com for years, and never had any reported performance issues.
i'm guessing it was probably my screwing around on the live version around the 11th/12th. you should hopefully have no problem now?
I'm not getting 404s - page
I'm not getting 404s - page not found - which requires a response from the server. I'm getting server not found alert boxes, as if the server is not responding at all.
Could be a server issue or a DNS issue, but unless you run your own server, it shouldn't be anything you're doing.
Actually, it's down right
Actually, it's down right now:
I've tried it about five times today. No luck. It's possible that it's a DNS problem on my end or something. You might nevertheless try one of the ping services and ping your site from several different countries and see how it goes.
If you have your server IP, you can use something like
http://www.tracert.com/cgi-bin/ping.pl
and ping it from several locations and see what happens
IGNORE ME!
Arrrgghhhhh!!! Ignore me and my stupidity. I saw your site when I clicked on the corrected link. I didn't see it when I clicked on the incorrect link in the first post. Doh!
Sorry for the confusion
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oh good grief; yeah that's my fault for not being able to type my own silly domain name, heheheheh.
aye, it's:
http://www.lespritdelescalier.com/
d'oh! sorry about that :]