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By kvarnelis on
http://www.varnelis.net, one of four sites that I'm maintaining, is now running on drupal 4.7b3. Thanks to everyone who has helped along the way.
I'm using a custom phptemplate theme for a semi-liquid layout. I didn't want my columns resizing like mad since there were images in them, so the whole thing floats around in a container. 800 x 600 isn't going to work, but the critical material is legible in 1024x768. The flickr block on the left is my own work, and you can find the code for it in another post on these forums.
The font is specified in ems, which lets IE users resize it (fonts specified in pixels don't resize). The page validates as xhtml transitional (until I do something dumb in a post and mess it up).
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Clean design felicitations
Thanks for showing us that 4.7 b3 is more than beta and can be use in production...
I have one little question...Did you use flexinode for the images or the CVS version of the images.module ???
i cheated
Or rather, I haven't upgraded the site after I loading the images on board. Well, that's true to some extent, others are simply uploaded. Drupal's image management doesn't completely thrill me. I don't like the step of having to create a node per image with either method. That takes too much time for me. Nor do I really see any advantage for me in doing so. I don't really need people to find only one image, nor do I want my images appearing in taxonomies.
I wish there was support for mass import from folders on a web server. So I'm finding myself doing bad things like uploading my images en masse with ftp. The biggest step in this regard is probably going to be the galleries section of the site (example: http://varnelis.net/galleries/expo_2000/index.htm), which is still being worked on a bit, but is likely to go up as a series of static pages since it's just so much easier to do that way. I wish they could be integrated but the idea with Drupal is to save my time, not eat it up trying to use the wrong tool for the wrong job.
Gallery seemed like the best possibility, but I didn't like the way it integrated with Drupal. http://varnelis.net/gallery2/main.php
The theming was a bear and I was never satisfied with it. The urls are pretty ugly too.
But I'm also open to suggestions.
http://www.varnelis.net
moving up...
to beta 4...no problems on this site. thanks to everyone who is working on the betas!!