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By Wolfe on
Hey, folks. I'm the leader of a 3 year old online community called "Dreams in Digital" that hasn't even gotten off the ground yet. We have no web-site, no finished projects, nothing to show for it at all but 100MB of IRC logs and a crapload of knowledge on CMS's (such as Drupal).
So I decided that it was time for me to take this a bit more seriously. I decided that I want that site up and running before 2005 (hopefully). But I need someone with PHP experience to help us make a theme for drupal and also maybe help out with modifying or even making a few modules for drupal. But also to join our oh so small group for future projects. The main reason I wanted to get the site done is because we're starting a new project soon that demands all my time and concentration. We're going to make an RPG (for Windows, but we might concidur porting to Linux and Mac OS X to).
Well let me explain to you what "Dreams in Digital" is:
Dreams in Digital is basically just a little community that me and my buddies made to make the time pass. We've (almost) made alot of stuff. We've attempted to make games, music, art, graphics, stories, most as solo projects but some as mutual projects, and sometimes we've even come up with some great stuff. The members have changed all along and the list has gone from small, to big, to small, to miniscule (yeah yeah yeah). But we've also made alot of friends oversea's and we've also included alot of these people in our projects.
The web-site (or web-design) has also changed alot acording to what the people of the community (or just me sometimes) want.
So I guess it's just like the name say's and I'm going to do my best to make this one come true.
Now I'm serious about this and if I can't find someone to help me, well then screw the CMS. I'll just use HTML with a forum *shrugs*. But please don't be discouraged, I really want to use Drupal.
(PS: Here, take a look at the design me and Myrk, the co-leader of DiD, made for the new web-site: http://dreaming.uni.cc/betaland/did/ )
Comments
Bright
Wow, that sure is a beautiful photograph on the front page. When I look at it, I actually feel like I have to cover my eyes to protect them. That little patch of white in the middle of the sun is so much whiter and hotter than a the much larger white background of this site.
- Robert Douglass
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visit me at www.robshouse.net
I'll let Myrk know you liked
I'll let Myrk know you liked it =)
nice pic
Hi Wolfe...
I was in the same position you were a few months ago...i.e. looking for a CMS tool that, once set up, can be fairly much left to it's own devices.
Drupal is ideal for that...although it took me a while to get my head around very simple basic tasks. Once you get over that hurdle. It's fairly much a breeze and based on what you just typed up...I recommend you stick with it and spend a day or two fumbling around to get just the basics up and running..and searching for specific hassles on here.
Keep the faith..
Jason
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
Man, there's plenty of CMS's
Man, there's plenty of CMS's that meet that description :P I just want one to meet my requirements, and so far I'm not sure Drupal meets these requirements but I'll take my chances.
I agree...
there are a lot of CMS' out there...but for community development or a very simple private site..that can be updated by the community...drupal is by far the best in my humble opinion...and that's after a lot of searching, downloading, installing...basically checking out other CMS.
Hope it works out for ya.,.
Jason
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
It's worked for me so far
It's worked for me so far, Myrk (co-owner of Dreams in DIgital) also agrees that Drupal is a fine solution to our problem. But we want to enhance it as well. Like for example, the standard forum template: It's ok for this forum but for our forum we'd like it to look like a standard forum. Maybe a row at the top with the avatar, status of the user, rank of the user, some small information about the user. So we basically need some help with the templates and PHP.
xtemplate = easy solution
You should be able to do a more-or-less copy/paste operation with your current code into an xtemplate theme.
Make a copy of the bluemarine directory (it's inside "themes") and rename it as whatever you want to call your new theme. You should then be able to basically copy/paste code from your current design into the xtemplate.xtmpl file. Xtemplate works by replacing {tags} with content. After taking a quick look at a rendered page from the bluemarine theme, you can figure out what each tag does and, where it should be placed within your (new) template. You'll want to rename your CSS file to style.css as well.
Of course, you could do the same thing with phptemplate or by creating a plain PHP-based Drupal theme, which would give you more flexibility... but it would also probably take longer and be more difficult.
I've made Xtemplate's before
I've made an Xtemplate before, but the problem is I want something more then what Xtemplate can deliver. Therefor I need a php theme.
Dark text
If I were you I would make the text on the site a bit lighter, it's hard to read here. The photo is indeed nice though ;).
I've been getting complaints
I've been getting complaints about this since day 1, but mostly just from people at #HTML. But you see, if I have to change the colour of the text the same goes for the border, and right now the borders are perfect. If I make it lighter (which I have tested) it'll look awfull.