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TFnS Web Design is a boutique web design group based in South Bend, Indiana. The owner and designer of the group, Brandon Morrison, has been developing with Drupal off and on for about 4 years. His first project with Drupal was a Drupal 4.5 social site for his student newspaper at Middle Tennessee State University that never quite got off the ground.

TFnS works primarily with clients to develop out web sites that are easy to use and are as accessible as possible. One of TFnS's specialties is integrating Flash components into websites in a responsible, accessible manner.

Design

This is the second iteration of the TFnS site. The original site was essentially a fairly straightforward skin of a standard Drupal installation.

The goal of the redesign was to give the site a more professional, less blog-like look, especially on the home landing page. The main issue with having a blog-like look for the home page was that I'm not a consistent blogger, and having a site that looks like nothings changed in weeks/months is off-putting to a potential client coming to the site for the first time. Plus, I was tired of new clients asking to see my work site, rather than my blog *sigh*. The site needed to showcase the strengths of TFnS as a developer, not my weaknesses at consistent writing.

Front Page

Hi,

I'm working on my second Drupal site.

Modules used:

Administration Menu
Plugin Manager

Advanced Taxonomy Blocks
Jquery Menu
Aggregator
DHTML Menu
Taxonomy Menu
Web Links

Theme used:
Plutado
Designed by David Plutado Fugate

This site is basically a collection of links and eventually I will add some original content of my own about building a Home Theater Personal Computer or "HTPC" machine.

When designing this site the very first module I installed was the Plugin Manager. I really think this one should be part of the Drupal core since it gives the admin user the ability to install modules and themes without leaving the Drupal environment. It's really convenient and if you happen to be on a network with ftp firewall restrictions (like a public library or school) you can still build your site by installing modules and themes since the ftp transaction is occuring between your hosting server and the Drupal repositories.

The other discovery I made, is that the Web Links, Taxonomy Menu, and Advanced Taxonomy Blocks modules work well together. It was sort of an accident, but as it turns out my navigation menu updates automatically based on any new groups I add to the Weblinks module. So basically all I have to do to maintain the site now, is to just add new links to the Web Links module.

I have created a brand new blog, using Drupal. I really love Drupal, it works really well.
It is a great new blog for Jokes, Pranks, Interesting facts, and Strange laws! New content is added every day, and is always great!
Come along today, at www.tonyperez.biz/blog and comment on my amazing content!

Also, I got some awesome help from KahneFan from this site www.ipostyoupost.com . He gave me great advice, and helped a lot :)

Modules currently in use:
CCK
View 2
Classified Ads
Taxonomy Manager
Content Taxonomy Autocomplete
Aggregator
Book Post Filter
Web Links
External Links

For Administration I found these modules to be indispensable too:
Administration Menu
Plugin Manager

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All the best,
Sam.

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