Alafranga.com powered by Drupal

kc - June 27, 2004 - 23:10

I have setup a blog for Turkish Community using Drupal. Alafranga.com It is in Turkish. Everyday I am discovering a great feature of Drupal.
I have used the path alias available in Drupal to use the title of nodes as the URL for the node and it has helped me a lot with Google search results.

Any comments, feedback is welcome.

Thanks to all who contribute to Drupal in any way.

Cheers

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It looks good, very professional

Bèr Kessels - June 27, 2004 - 23:21

ITs a very progfessional looking site. I like that.

One thing though: If you are really happy about drupal and its community, you can give something back, i guess. It looks like you have translated drupal into turkish. I think you would be of great help if you can share that translation.

[Ber | webschuur.com]

if you want learn mean

dostroyer - April 4, 2008 - 22:34

if you want learn mean alafranga enter to google image search :))
thax alex anna

Automatic title aliasing

Steven - June 28, 2004 - 00:10

There was some discussion here about making a nodeapi module which would automatically make path aliases with the title when you create/edit a node. I don't have the URL, but I'm sure some searching will locate it.

path alias auto-generated would be great

kc - April 13, 2006 - 23:41

Steven,

I had actually asked a question about how to add the node titles to the URL before I discovered the use of path.module and killes mentioned in his comment that it could be possible to auto-generate a path alias for each node but AFAIK there is non-created yet.

Unfortunately I am not a programmer myself so I could not write this code myself and for now I am manually adding path alias to each node I create.

I am also wondering if it could ever be possible to have a script that goes through the title that has Turkish chars and replace them with English ones? For example: "Ş" 's replaced with "S" and such. there is only a set of those characters, so maybe they can be predefined and an English alternative provided for the script to replace.

I would be more than happy to

kc - June 28, 2004 - 03:59

Thanks for the encouraging feedback.

It took a while to convert Drupal to Turkish but I would love to share it with people interested in it. I just dont know how to share it though. I think it is stored in DB but, I am not sure how to take it out from there and if it is transferable to another site. (BTW: Some text like in Recipe module were hardcoded in the script and I had to put the translation in the script)

Drupal is really the most flexible CMS out there available for FREE. You can do so many stuff with it. Module system, clean code, Search Engine Friendly URLs, one of my favorites nowadays: path module, so many to list, everything is so well thought. Even someone like me with the least amount of PHP knowledge can bend it to his liking.

Two thumbs up guys!

KC

My Sites:

powershotblog.com | one-stop-ecommerce.com | amazam.com | alafranga.com

Exporting translations

elfur - July 24, 2004 - 22:05

And on the same note ... if you've started the translation before discovering the enhanced version of the locale module, how do you go about sharing it?
Should I start using the enhanced module now or keep on with the built in locale?

thanks
/elfur

Very Professional Looking. How about that theme?

wernst - July 27, 2004 - 18:24

I like the look and layout of your site quite a bit. If you did your own theme, consider releasing it to the community as well.

At the very least, *I* would love too see how it works. You can email me at warren at warrenernst dot com if you like, and perhaps we can arrange something.

-Warr

Magic is in the stylesheet

kc - July 28, 2004 - 21:54

It is,in fact not a new theme, it comes with Drupal, called pushbutton theme. I basically modified the settings in CSS files. Both Drupal.css and xtemplate.css, which is in pushbutton folder. Also a few minor changes on the theme file mostly for functionality not for the look of the site though.

Basically 95% of it is CSS file changes. You should be able to achive the look you want by doing the same, modifying your CSS file.

I hope this helps.

KC

My Sites:
powershotblog.com | one-stop-ecommerce.com | amazam.com |

Pushbutton/xTemplate

Robert Castelo - July 29, 2004 - 09:17

There's some information about the Pushbutton template here:

http://www.cortextcommunications.com/pushbutton/

Also, there's a guide to customising xTemplate based templates, like Pushbutton, here:

http://drupal.org/book/view/6493

If you do adapt Default or Pushbutton to create your own template, I suggest reading the section "Creating a New Template", and giving your new template a new name.

This will make it easier for you when you upgrade Drupal.

Simple site. You don't have

naveenpl - April 5, 2008 - 07:05

Simple site.
You don't have logo, but used drupal's logo as your favicon???.
My suggestion is set drupal's logo, if you are using it as your favicon.
Check out search404 module, doesn't provide you with an empty search result.
If you have more topics or categories for blogs then left menu will have more contents and search for a particular topic will be easy. You can even set login, contact us, home, about us, etc in your primary link, site would have more professional look.
Some of the footer links are directed to opendns.

This is just my opinion from my little knowledge.
Cheers.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but

johnhesston - June 16, 2008 - 21:46

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this just the Garland theme with content added? Are you going to theme it or leave as is?