My first Drupal site. Yay!

I'm having a really tough time tweaking the template so the content would look the way I want. This used to be the bluemarine theme and I just tweaked it. If there is a better way...I'm not sure I want to know. Wait, okay, I do, just as long as it doesn't involve doing everything all over again. :D

I've been staring at this site for so long I think I've lost perspective. Would appreciate feedback.

Thanks so much!

Judy

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shanghaiguide’s picture

Hint: You might want to share the link to the site so we can all share the love (and feedback).

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Marco Palmero’s picture

Sometimes, amingst all the excitement of revealing our websites to the world we forget the most obvious of things ;)

Good work!

I like the theme - did you build it from another existing theme? I like how it is liquid to a certain width...

Also another question is: how did you get adsense to appear between posts?

Thanks!

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Anonymous’s picture

Thank you! :)

I build it by replacing the graphics and tweaking the xtemplate and the css of the bluemarine theme that comes with the Drupal download. I tried to make it work with 800x600, but there's just too much stuff. :p

As for adsense, I put the adsense code in xtemplate.xtmpl where it was recursing for node.

Just before this:

  </div>
<!-- END: node -->

I think there's an adsense module that can make adsense work anywhere, but it needs the phptemplate engine thing, which I discovered AFTER I did all the theme work, so I just did the work around with the above.

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Marco Palmero’s picture

Oh ok... I thought I made up something new for it....

I see that you've limited the number of posts per page as three - as if you put more - more of those adsense ads will come up - and will be against terms of service as you can only put three on one page.

Am I right or did you use some other code?

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Anonymous’s picture

Oops, I didn't see that on the TOS.

In any case, I tested it, if I put more posts, the ads just won't show up.

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Marco Palmero’s picture

Yes I know they dont show up... coz google doesnt let it

But if you ask google compliance they still ask that the code for adsense only be put in there three times for ads and one link block.

Just dont want you to get banned... (a lot of people have)

Anonymous’s picture

Wow, okay, thanks, I appreciate the heads up. :)

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beginner’s picture

It looks good :)

I like the design.

btw, here's the section of my site about "the other" China:
http://www.wechange.org/taiwan

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Thank you for taking a look. I'm originally from 'the other china', but my site is covering the background cultural stuff, which is similar on either side of the strait.

Your website looks gorgeous, btw. :)

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