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zavaboy
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: f(x)
Insane since: Jun 2004

posted posted 10-17-2007 23:22

I made a design for my Drupal powered website.

http://zavaboy.com/

I already ran it by TP, so I got feedback from him, but I'd like to hear from the rest of you guys.

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Mad Librarian

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

posted posted 10-18-2007 02:47

Simple enough. Not too much to mention.

1) I'm not a big fan of light text on a dark background, generally speaking. This isn't too bad because the text is subdued (not too bright), but you might consider offering a dark text on light background alternative.

2) The "something" text in the twisted text tutorial breaks out of the box used to contain all your content.

3) You might think about creating an archives to store content. After a while that front page is going to get pretty long.

That's about all I can think of at the moment. Haven't checked out the code.


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zavaboy
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: f(x)
Insane since: Jun 2004

posted posted 10-18-2007 02:57

1. I will get around to adding more distinct designs as time goes on. I also need to get around to making a print stylesheet for this design.

2. I am aware of that. I have just been quite lazy to reduce the image size.

3. Right now I have it limited to showing the latest 10 postings on the front page, but I think I will reduce that unless I choose to only show the teasers.

Thanks Suho!

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Mad Librarian

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

posted posted 10-18-2007 15:06

No problem.

Regarding #3, are you going to have a place where people can go to find old content?

zavaboy
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: f(x)
Insane since: Jun 2004

posted posted 10-19-2007 01:39

Page numbers will be seen at the bottom when there are more than displayed posts.

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Mad Librarian

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

posted posted 10-19-2007 06:20

I've got another suggestion... I just sent you an email via your contact form, and after submitting the message it dropped me back onto the main page. It would be nice if there was a confirmation screen to let people know that the message was sent.

zavaboy
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: f(x)
Insane since: Jun 2004

posted posted 10-19-2007 06:30

It's what Drupal does... I will look into that and see what I can do. Thanks for letting me know!

drmadcow
Obsessive-Compulsive (I) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Nov 2007

posted posted 11-08-2007 05:20

I like the colours, and the overall design is appealing. I do however find the the outer glow on the character to be way to wide. I'd also redo the test on your buttons there a little bit jaggy. Cheers.

Daryl Quenet, Web Developer / SEO Consultant
PHP Development Company, Scenic British Columbia, Dr MadCow's Web Portal

Blaise
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: London
Insane since: Jun 2003

posted posted 11-08-2007 11:16

You have a few errors there in your HTML, you've got some Spans (inline elements) surrounding your UL's (block elements) I would change the spans to Divs, and if necessary float or change to display: inline;

Cheers,

Wes
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Inside THE BOX
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 11-12-2007 08:44

zavaboy: You need to add <?php print $messages ?> to your page.tpl.php. This is the statement that outputs all Drupal error and confirmation messages.

One of those messages happens to be the contact-confirmation message, which should say "The message has been sent."

FYI, if you want to change that message:
1. Make sure you have the Locale module installed. (It's one of the core modules.)
2. Go to Site Configuration > Localization and select "Add language."
3. Look under Custom Language. For language code, enter something like en-US. For language name, enter something like custom-English. Doesn't really matter.
4. Disable the original language and enable your new one, setting it as default.
5. Select Manage Strings.
6. Search for the message above and you can add a translation, which can just be your own wording. You can do this with about anything, as long as it uses the t function in the code/template. I've customized a lot of messages like this. No need to edit the code.



(Edited by Wes on 11-12-2007 08:45)

zavaboy
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: f(x)
Insane since: Jun 2004

posted posted 11-12-2007 13:10

drmadcow: I like the amount of glow on the header text. If someone else agrees with you that there is too much glow, I will consider reducing it. And I don't understand what you mean by redoing the test (er, text?) on my buttons.

Blaise: Thanks for pointing that out, I will get to fixing that soon.

Wes: Thanks, that helps me lot. I will fix that too.

Edit: Wes, I found this in my page.tpl.php:
<?php if ($show_messages && $messages): print $messages; endif; ?>



(Edited by zavaboy on 11-12-2007 16:12)

Wes
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Inside THE BOX
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 11-12-2007 22:00

Are you using Drupal 6? That looks to be a Drupal 6 addition. I'm not sure where or how the show_messages option is set, but I'd bet that's what's preventing the Contact module from displaying its output.

Personally, I'd do something like:

code:
<?php if (isset($show_messages) && $show_messages && $messages): print $messages; endif; ?>



See if that doesn't allow Contact to output its messages.

zavaboy
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: f(x)
Insane since: Jun 2004

posted posted 11-12-2007 22:39

When you mentioned version 6, I realized that I was using some of the stuff from garland v6 when I'm using v5.2. I'll now check with the 5.2 version and change my page.tpl.php as needed. If you're wondering where I may have got the v6 garland, read my first posting on my website.



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