Castle Hill Baptist Church
August 6, 2007 - 7:43am
2 things
I like this. I usually don't like drop down menus but I think they work here.
2 quick things.
1) When your theme is done turn on css preprocessing.
2) The page is not very accessible and isn't semantic. If you can, rework the page to be that way. It can look the same but the difference will be in finding it in a search engine and for all those people with a disability.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.mattfarina.com
August 6, 2007 - 6:50pm
Thanks for the feedback...
Thanks for the feedback, any chance you could point me towards some resources on accessibility and semantics?
I have tried to make it XHTML and CSS compliant but beyond that I am not really sure what to do!
Thanks again,
Andy
August 7, 2007 - 8:07am
A semantic start
Here is a link that provides a starting point.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.mattfarina.com
August 7, 2007 - 5:46pm
Nice Look with room for improvement.
Quite nice!
A little too pastel for my tastes, but that's pretty subjective. You've got things organized, laid out and working in a way that I find easy to understand and appealing.
The menus could probably stand some extra styling as they look pretty generic. I also found the main text content often appearrd with longer line lengths and tighter line spacing than I thought desirable for easy reading.
Still, generally quite good.
Mark
BTW:
If your could you tell me a little about how you implemented the drop downs and what code your are using I'd very much apprecieate it.
Example:
Is it linked in to Drupal's default menu manager?
Is it using Suckerfish menus?
August 8, 2007 - 8:39am
August 8, 2007 - 9:20am
mootools and smoothgallery
That is using the smooth gallery and the mooltools javascript framework.
If you want something similar in jquery check out http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.mattfarina.com
August 8, 2007 - 9:41am
and Views...
It is indeed Smooth Gallery, the code for the images etc is generated from the news items using the views module, which inputs the content in the correct format for smoothgallery... It is a nice gallery, and quite easy to work with, apart from the fact that it doesn't play nicely with jQuery.
You need to run jQuery in noconflict mode and to do that you need to update the version of jQuery that comes with drupal as the stick version doesn't have the noconflict mode.
Andy
August 8, 2007 - 9:45am
Drop-down Menus
The drop-down menus are based around sucker-fish. They started as sucker-fish but ended up being SuperFish (basically sucker-fish with jQuery!)
The are generated by the the Primary Links within drupal's menu structure.
Andy
August 8, 2007 - 11:20am
in jquery
I like what this does. I think, for an upcoming project, i have do something like this jquery. I don't want to use more than one framework. It adds more overhead than I want to deal with on a single page.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.mattfarina.com
August 8, 2007 - 11:57am
I agree...
I would prefer not to have to use both but I came across Smooth Gallery before I realised that drupal now had jQuery in the core!
If you come up with a nice solution I would be interested in seeing it as I would prefer not to have to try and run both libraries at the same time!
Andy
August 8, 2007 - 12:12pm
any other mootools things?
Are you using mootools for anything else?
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.mattfarina.com
August 8, 2007 - 1:23pm
Nothing...
No, I only use mootools for that one thing on that page so it is only downloaded on the frontpage...
Andy
The redesign of the Castle Hill Baptist Church site is almost finished and I would really appreciate some feedback on the design.
It is all built around drupal (the old site was done in wordpress).
Any comments on layout, content, presentation, accessibility and usability would be greatly appreciated!
Warwick Baptist Church Website
Thanks!
Andy
Andy
Warwick Baptist Church - The Kemps' Blog