Summerhillfarm.co.za/drupal

Did this site as a project for an old friend.

Theme

I am used to Zen so I've used the HTML5 responsive theme as a base for my subtheme. I haven't made use of the left sidebar and changed the layout to 70% content and 30% sidebar. All of the Zen CSS files are untouched, everthing is overriden in one CSS file.

The site is intended to be fully responsive but I still haven't resolved the frontpage slideshow in resolutions below 1024px wide.

The rounded corners, box-shadows, text-shadows and gradients are all CSS3 except for the panel backgrounds which is a 10px by 400px png.

Modules

VIEWS

I've made extensive use of Views, The 'Tariffs' block is a view of two pieces of content so the guesthouse owner can maintain current prices. The 'Afiliations' block under the content is also a view of 12 items of content consisting of an image and a link. The 'Accomodation' page is a view of teasers as is the 'Local Attractions', Galleries' and 'About Worcester' pages.

FIELD-GROUP & COLORBOX

All the image layouts in the content pages are done with the field-group module and CSS. All images are custom sizes. The colorbox module is used for viewing images in an overlay.

ROOMS

Rooms availability is handled onsite by the owners with the Rooms module.

SPAM

Spam control is handled by the Captcha module and Mollom Module.

WEBFORM

The webform modules is used for all enquiries, bookings, reviews, and other feedback.

SEO

I've used Metatag, Global Redirect and redirect to boost search engine optimisation. Also Google analytics is installed as well as Pathauto URL aliases.

TRIP ADVISOR BLOCK

This a block with the Tripadvisor code snippet in.

USER HANDBOOK

I've created a handbook for the guesthouse owners using the core 'Book' module. This covers using the Rooms module, managing users, dealing with webform submissions, and creating/editing content.

The whole site took me about three weeks start to finish. Although I'm still expecting some new images and body from the owner before I move the site to its permanent home at http://summerhillfarm.co.za

Comments

mike_sandes’s picture

Site is a bit slow to load - should I aggregate CSS and JS? Perhaps uninstall Devel, Views UI and other development modules.