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This site is definitely the best candidate to be the web portal for this issue. They will be the last one laughing when global warming comes into full force and the site gets millions of hits from frustrated "men of all races, creeds, and religions". Yahoo, Google, and MSN will get into a crazy auction to buy the site. Will you give me a share of the site if I click every day on some of the Google ads?

One little suggestion : teasers cut the testimonials in the middle of the words. I guess there are ways to solve this problem.

One little question: How did you manage the middle column to display like that? Is there a Drupal theme that has similar functionality?

Middle block is composed of 3 parts: top, middle and bottom

Posted by varunvnair on December 27, 2005 at 1:09pm

The image behind the content in the middle column is composed of 3 separate images, 1 for the top, 1 for the middle and 1 for the bottom.

If you are using Firefox install the excellent Web Developer extension. (After restarting your browser) Go to powderyourballs.com and from the Web Developer toolbar select Outline » Outline Block level elements. You will see how the image is composed.

The actual composing is done in CSS... some of the relevant statements are:

#top {
   height: 73px;
	background-image: url(/sites/powderyourballs.com/themes/powderyourballs/top.jpg);
}
#fill {
	background-image: url(/sites/powderyourballs.com/themes/powderyourballs/fill.jpg);
	overflow:hidden;
}
#bottom {
	height: 77px;
	background-image: url(/sites/powderyourballs.com/themes/powderyourballs/bottom.jpg);
}

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Web Developer is indeed great

Posted by pembeci on December 29, 2005 at 8:23am

Varun, thanks for the explanation. Actually, I am using Firefox and the Web Developer extension is installed but I guess I haven't quite yet used to employing all of its power.

Thanks

Posted by epicflux on January 5, 2006 at 7:44pm

Thanks for your advice; fixed the teasers. I based this theme off the http://drupal.org/project/argeebee theme. Someone else already explained the powder-container center column.

I never thought about the global warming connection. I would be a little afraid of pushing that point and then alienating people who don’t believe that global warming is occurring. Sweat glands don’t seem to care for the political leanings of the individual…

I set up this site simply to garner a few laughs, but I think it is an example of how great Drupal is to work with. That I can create a cheesy site like this with relatively little time and effort is a testament to Drupal’s ease of use.