Topic: new design (Page 1 of 1)

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.

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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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!

No problem.

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

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

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.

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

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

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,

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)

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)

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:

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

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

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.