This is my first attempt at creating a Drupal-based website. The site allows users to submit links to legal news, articles, etc. Other users may then vote on the link in a "Digg" fashion.
I used the Zen theme and made a lot of small changes to the CSS to get the look I needed. Most of the kinks are worked out, but a few pop up in IE6. My biggest challenge was with the Vote Up Down Module and its included CSS not displaying consistently on all browsers.
I made the logo, many of the icons, and menu backgrounds in photoshop (including the vote icons - which have hover effects and change colors when you actually vote for a link), and I plan to eventually replace the bullet icons and a few other "standard" images in the zen theme. Of course, including the various images and icons required some modification to the included CSS files. The addition of a second icon (and link) in the header also required modification to the template .php files.
My plans for the site include:
- More graphic work (buttons, icons, etc.)
- Changing the "standard" look of the content in the right column
- Upgrading the VotingAPI module to promote highly ranked content to the front page (don't have the time to debug it if it doesn't work the first time)
- Adding some background gradients to the page and some dividers between the main content and the right column.