By grubesteak on

While I adapted a Drupal theme for my business web site, this is my first adoption of Drupal for my own "from scratch" design.

Let me tell you ... I'm new to Drupal, but this is going to take a lot of work out of site maintenance. The less work I have to do to update content (such as making the site owner do it), the better.

I would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!

Eric

The web site: http://www.thepomonas.com

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.5.x or older

Comments

KSA213755’s picture

KSA213755 commented

The flash player is nice. Listening to Two Seat Cessna as I post this comment. I'd recommend that you enable Clean URL's. Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh. :)
Roger

grubesteak’s picture

grubesteak commented

Thanks for the suggestion. Can you give me the benefit of clean vs. (dirty?).

Yes, Two Seat Cessna is one of my favs too.

KSA213755’s picture

KSA213755 commented

The link to your music link now:
http://www.thepomonas.com/?q=node/5&PHPSESSID=b843c6917a861d4b5c9700f9a8...

or

http://www.thepomonas.com/?q=node/5

As it could be:
http://www.thepomonas.com/music

Ever play at the Bottleneck? Last concert I went to was some latin band (Caribe or Carribe) at the Bottleneck. Years ago.

Roger

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grubesteak commented

I tried to enable and ran into a few issues. I think I should learn more about it (and their server) before getting in over my head.

I agree though; that would be an easier link.

I think they do play at the Bottleneck from time to time, although they spend a lot of time at the Replay and the Jackpot. I'm not in the band, just the web guy.

But on of my old bands ... I played there. Great venue.

KSA213755’s picture

KSA213755 commented

Is the server you're on the reason you're using 4.5 instead of 4.6? I had problems with Clean URL's running a local install with XAMPP. There were some modifications needed in httpd.conf and php.ini.

Roger

grubesteak’s picture

grubesteak commented

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of their host and not sure if I can get in and made the necessary modifications to make clean URL's work.

But it's something work looking into.

mrgoltra’s picture

mrgoltra commented

Hi,

I was wondering if you can give me some information why enabling clean urls is a better option than disabling it? I am a newbie and have been spending the last 8 hours reading up on Clean URLs and all I have come across are the issues that happens when it is enabled. How will my website benefit from having this option enabled?

Thank you very much,

Mark

jt6919’s picture

jt6919 commented

enabling clean URL's is much better, and it's in your best interest.

First - it's better for you. Once you get a lot of content in your site - it gets difficult to manage. Let's say that you have 100 nodes in your site, and you're checking the activity log or stats to see what's most popular. Would you rather have www.site.com/?node=99 or www.site.com/name_of_my_article instead? It's better for you to find and manage your site when it comes to the logs (access and error), and also makes it easier to access stuff. You might not remember you can just type in www.site.com/?node=43, but you probably will remember www.site.com/my_popular_article.

Last - it's better for search engine indexing. When you have keywords in your URL path, it makes the relevance (and your page rank) much higher.

read more in my help guide:
http://www.smorgasbord.net/how_to_optimize_drupal_web_site_for_google_ya...

somes’s picture

somes commented

Have you thought about puting the events module in for a gig guide, you wouldnt need all of it and if you stripped it down it could be a nice addition.

like the swf file havent seen it before what fla file are you using,

ddonat’s picture

ddonat commented

I like the simplicity. And I would say a stellar result for your first go at Drupal. I highly recommend the clean URLS, though as was stated previously.

I also dig the music.

David

http://www.projectopus.com

grubesteak’s picture

grubesteak commented

Thanks for the comment. I love the guys' music and hopefully, once I figure out how to configure the server properly, clean urls will make them rock even more. :)

David, is ProjectOpus yours? Very nice.

Eric

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bombaclot commented

Hi did you use/integrate this player w/ the audio module or some other way. I have the audio module up and running nicely, but I'd like to use this other player. Can you help with that. Also, I'd like to have the playlists stream to it rather than opening an external player like Itunes, which is what happens now.
Thank you!

jt6919’s picture

jt6919 commented

I have clean URL's on (since day one) using 4.7.3, and I still get PHPSESSID's listed in the search engine by the crawler...any idea why?