By bjornarneson on

We've just relaunched http://bethlehem-church.org after an upgrade to Drupal 4.7. In addition to Drupal core, we're running:

- a custom phptemplate theme
- front_page
- image
- img_assist
- scripturefilter
- search404
- tinymce
- urlfilter
- webform

The site is a work in progress, and we're making improvements every day. One of the more unique elements in our site are the tooltips that appear on rollover of the primary links. Using a little javascript function, we repurpose the title attribute of the primary link and display it as a tooltip on mouseover.

Can't paste javascript here, but if you dig into the source code of the page above, you'll find the well-commented javascript in a file called scripts.js.

-b

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

Comments

orbert’s picture

orbert commented

First: the site is visually very appealing. Your site is a great example of how choosing one or two visual elements of great appeal (in your case the beautiful headline graphic) and keeping everything else fairly clean can result in a great looking site. Nice choice of fonts and colors, too.

Second: great organization and navigation. Yay! Not always the case with Drupal sites. And I agree,
the way you have integrated the top menu rollovers with the design is a really nice touch.

figaro’s picture

figaro commented

Your site might benefit from coloring the background of the footer the same darkred color as you are already using, but double the lightness. Otherwise a well-made site.

jevans337’s picture

jevans337 commented

I am the web master of our church site and I am in the decision process for going to a drupal based site. Yours has given me a good idea of how ours can be transferred and built to benefit the maintenance and the people viewing it.

vjordan’s picture

vjordan commented

The site is very impressive. Are you still using just the 9 contributed modules you list above or have you added any more during the 'improvements' you mention were ongoing?

I'm doing a site for my local parish church and I've a couple of questions:

  • I'd be very interested to see the way you have used taxonomy to help structure the site. Could you give me some insight into the way you set up the site taxonomy?
  • I see elsewhere you have 6-8 contributors. I'm trying to relate this to my own parish. Could you tell me the size of your church's population?
  • What areas of the site have you found to be most popular with your users?

- Vincent

bjornarneson’s picture

bjornarneson commented

Current contrib modules in use:
event
eventrepeat
front
image
img_assist
scripturefilter
search404
tinymce
urlfilter
viewback
views
webform

Our taxonomy is relatively simple. We use it primarily to categorize

1. News items (can belong to multiple categories: "youth", "connect", "health", "worship", etc...)
2. Weekly resources (i.e. sermon texts, daily bible readings, devotional resources, etc...)

Most nodes will belong to one of those categories. We then use the views.module to manage the front-end display of news items. For instance, when you visit the /connect page, you'll see a list of news items categorized with the "connect" term. Using taxonomy, we can also provide RSS feeds for sermon texts and devotional resources.

Demographic info on the church available at http://elca.org/ScriptLib/OS/Congregations/cdsDetail.asp?Id=A69EA5AA97.

jmontano’s picture

jmontano commented

What a beautiful and useful site you made

blessings

J.M.