By webslinger on

Hello!

-I've just launched a website, http://www.ubermondo.com, and I'd love to get your input. It's a community-driven site, and there aren't very many users yet, so there isn't a lot of content yet, but I'd still like to hear what you think.

Thanks,
Dieter

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Bèr Kessels’s picture

Bèr Kessels commented

Dear Dieter,

The site looks allright, allthough for (power)drupal users it is clear that the theme is a quick hack of chameleon. Nothing wrong with that though, because you gavew it a nice twist, and made the site looks nice.

I have one concer though. I cannot see what it is about, that site. To me it looks like another blog. But you state clearly in your post (above) that its a community site. If i stumble upon your site, I cannot see what community I stumbled upon, if i can make out its about a community at all. So I as JoeUser, would not subscribe. since I do not know what I can expect.

[Ber | webschuur.com]

webslinger’s picture

webslinger commented

Good point -- I'll give that some more thought. Along those lines (and this is a little off-topic), do you know of a good way to display the Mission on the main page for anonymous users, but hide it for authenticated users? That might do the trick.

Thanks,
Dieter

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Bèr Kessels’s picture

Bèr Kessels commented

Without going into detail here. I would do the following if I were you.

Create a php block that prints the mission (if it is static a htmml mission copied from the other mission will do)

Make that block custom.

Print that block in your theme.

This way you can edit anything in that block online (and never need to open up the theme-php file)

Another option is to add something like this:
[?
global $user;
if($user->uid) {
print variable_get("site_mission","");
}
?]

to your theme. Note that this code is untested.
[Ber | webschuur.com]

webslinger’s picture

webslinger commented

Thanks -- I've added something similar to the code you've suggested, and have also modified the site title to something a bit more descriptive. I appreciate your input; thanks again!

wurch’s picture

wurch commented

I tried the other option with the php and it does not work: I copied&pasted it between
<!-- BEGIN: mission -->
and
<!-- END: mission -->
and on the webpage I see only the text:

uid) {print variable_get("site_mission","");}?>

As you can see I know nothing about php, so is there another way to get the mission only visible to anonymous users on the site?

Tia, wil