This was originally posted as a reply to "Truly corporate Drupal sites" in this same forum. It was suggested by Khalid that I move it to its own topic here. So I did.
ourgreenbelt.ca is a site I put together for the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation in Toronto, Canada. I didn't do the design, but I did everything else, including recommending Drupal. :)
I had only two weeks to choose a CMS, learn that CMS, and put the entire site together as you see it now, exactly matching an existing design done in Adobe Illustrator. That was a LOT of work!
I think it turned out well, and doesn't look very Drupalish. Not that there's anything wrong with that... Right now the site is in its Winter clothes. As Spring approaches the theme will be modified to represent the changing season.
There's no custom PHP in this site. But there are many custom blocks with specific visibility to create the variety of pages. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to choose anything but the XTemplate engine. I'm hoping I'll get the opportunity to update the site with PHPTemplate some time in the future.
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key point
I think this is a key reason to use Drupal. It is one of the strengths that you can put to gether a site that has your look and not like every other site that uses the same backend CMS that you do.
The other nice thing on theming, is that with a test user account, you can create a theme, assign it to that user through the admin interface, then log in and see what it looks like without disturbing the public view.
-sp
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
Test user theme assignment
I agree: it's an excellent way to work on the look of a site with minimal impact on the users of that site.
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