hi,
I've recently started using Drupal (a very big thank you to all the developers by the way - it's excellent and I haven't looked back since) and I'd appreciate some feedback on these first two sites with custom-made phptemplate themes.
http://www.thomaseagle.com is my own design/photography portfolio site
http://www.cosmealeadership.org is a small (read: cheap) site for a client
Neither makes full use of all the drupal features and modules yet, and as a php cut-and-paster rather than real programmer, I'm only just getting stuck into the guts of it... I hope I'll be able to give something back to drupal soon.
Both sites have been labours of love in terms of theming and some very basic, decorative flash bits and bobs. In both cases, I wanted to hide the menus and only show the primary navigation links to anonymous users. thomaseagle.com uses the flexiblock module with custom content types for web & print portfolio items. I tried acidfree for the photography, but then reverted to image and image import. Path is indispensible. Cosmealeadership.org uses a flash header/background that changes the flash object based on node id.
I'm using i18n but only just starting with translations, and finding that this very useful module sometimes doesn't work in conjunction with others... as an Englishman in Italy, I agree with many users that it would be great if i18n were part of drupal core... it sets drupal above most cms apps I've used or seen in the past (from MovableType - which I love but can't cope with translation of content - through Jahia - which I hate, but can cope with translation but clunckily - up to ATG Dynamo - which I only know very superficially for obvious reasons).
If by any chance there is anything in either of these two themes that anyone else wanted/needed to do but couldn't, let me know and I'll see if I can remember what I did during the late nights.
thanks for any feedback,
Thomas
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very, very nice
Hello Thomas,
Nice sites. I really like www.thomaseagle.com. It has a very unique design. I gotta ask about the galleries. How on earth did you:
1. Get the photos to line up straight on the bottom AND being nicely stacked on top of each other?
2. Get square photos? The height and width are perfectly square...how did you manage that?
I have to say that's one of the nicer uses of the image.module I've ever seen. Very pleasing to the eye. Nice job!
cheers,
larry
--There are no Kangaroos in Austria--
Hello Larry,
Hello Larry,
thank you for your comments - I'm relieved you liked the site!
on to your questions...
1) because all the thumbnail images are square and inside spans (not divs), which by default display inline (next to each other on the same line) instead of block (on a new line each), they align nicely, even if you switch the stylesheet off and just show the raw html... so I can't claim much credit for that. I don't use descriptions or excerpts for my photos, so there's nothing else in the teaser to get in the way and mess up the grid layout.
On the identity and design index pages, I basically copied the useful elements of this default grid layout using divs in the flexiblock content type definition settings, and then setting the css of the relevant divs to display:inline;
2) The photos are (so far) all square because they're taken with a Rolleiflex camera which has a 6x6 square negative, so that bit's easy... they just come that way. What will be harder and messier is when I start putting normal 35mm-type photos up!
Images in other sections of the site are resized and saved in photoshop instead of with a resizing php script. Creating/sizing them by hand means I can force them to be square if I want.
I'm not sure if these are good enough answers!
Best wishes, Thomas
thank you for clearing that up for me...
Hello Thomas,
I thank you for your reply and in-depth explanation. It really helped me make headway with the image module. I've been pounding on it awhile, so your help is very much appreciated. Once again, I really like the layout of your unique site. Looks awesome. Thanks again.
cheers,
larry
--There are no Kangaroos in Austria--