The company I work for, Nu-Designs, has been in business since 1996 in Northern California. We have worked with hundreds of clients and have launched well over 1,000 websites over the years. We started out building simple HTML-based sites, eventually got into E-Commerce and database applications. We built sites with a hodge-podge of PHP scripts, different databases, and various CMS programs. We even built our own CMS at one point. However we felt none of this was really working the way we wanted it to. I had been keeping my eye on Drupal for quite a while but for various reasons I never really had a chance to push Drupal. Over time that began to change and in the beginning of 2009 I made a serious push for my company to start using Drupal. It took some convincing (people are resistant to change) but eventually people really *got* it. Well, it's been a great success for us. In the last year and a half, we've built (or have in development) well over 100 Drupal sites. Our clients love it, our designers and developers love it. Heck, even our accountants love it as it has increased our profitability. These days, 100% of new projects are built in Drupal. We are also convincing a good number of our existing clients to rebuild their old sites in Drupal. We spent a good part of the last month or two re-building our own company site in Drupal, and I'm pretty proud of it.
Anyway I just wanted to share and give some respect to the entire Drupal community! Our site is http://nu-designs.com/
I'd love to hear any feedback from you folks here on the Drupal forum.
-- Quinn S.
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Looks cool. But I found the
Looks cool.
But I found the header may have much empty whitespace. A search bar there may help. What do you think?
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Hmm, I'm not quite sure what
Hmm, I'm not quite sure what you mean. There is *some* whitespace in the header but it doesn't seem excessive to our eyes. Also, there already is a search box up top. Can you let me know what system/browser you are using and maybe even post a screen shot so we can take a look? Thanks.
Hi, looks good. I really like
Hi, looks good.
I really like the red combination in the photo and logo on the home page, maybe it would be better for the brand to continue the red theme in images for the other pages.
Well done :)
Alby
Under the portfolio section,
Under the portfolio section, how did u implement the individual page header image of each work ?
Getting those headers just
Getting those headers just right was one of the more interesting aspects of the project. Here's what we did:
* Each header image is a CCK image-field on the "portfolio" content-type.
* The image is automatically cropped and scaled using imagecache actions.
* There's a View generates a block to render the image. The view uses an argument to "get the current node id" and if that node has a header image, it uses it.
* If there's no image the view just uses the "empty text" field.
* The "empty text" field is set to PHP mode and there's a little script that chooses an image at random from our pool of "random images".
So, in effect, if there's an image for that portfolio item (most of them have one) it uses it, otherwise it uses one of the random images.