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General Community => WebsiteBaker Website Showcase => Topic started by: chris_s on August 10, 2006, 10:26:33 PM

Title: New Site & New Templates
Post by: chris_s on August 10, 2006, 10:26:33 PM

After using Nuke and looking into Drupal, I'm really impressed by WB's ease of use. I'm not overly impressed by the free templates however; so I've started to do some work on building some new ones (based on some of the existing ones).

You can see the site using one variation on my first template at:
http://structures.sma-sportsmgmt.com/

I created three versions, a yellow one, a gray one and a blue one. To make it easier to customize and create new versions, I pulled many of the graphics variables out of the index module and put them in a separate (commented) parms module. I think this makes it pretty easy to create a custom look. I'd like to be able to put a color / theme option into the Settings display but I don't know if there is a standardized way to do that (if anyone has a simple example please let me know).

I wanted to add buttons into the navigation menu but I didn't see a simple way to do that so I made a small change to the class.frontend.php module that I have included with each template. Again, if there is a simple standard way to do this, let me know.

I emailed the three templates (chris1_gray, chris1_blue and chris1_yellow) to one of the gurus so I guess they will appear in the repository once it s straightened out.

Chris

Title: Re: New Site & New Templates
Post by: kweitzel on August 13, 2006, 10:27:16 PM

impressed ... not bad Chris. Please keep it up.

thanks and cheers

Klaus

Title: Stretching WB
Post by: chris_s on August 16, 2006, 09:29:01 PM

Well I'm still working on how far I can stretch WB. I came across a site that I liked so I decided to work on duplicating the home page in WB. I wanted to do this using standard WB as much as possible without too much customization.  It isn't a perfect match but it's close enough to declare success. With a bit more work I could make it that much closer but I think I'll move on and try another one. You can see my version and the original using the links below:

The original:        http://www.torontomusicscene.com
The WB version:  http://wb2.innovationsdesign.net/pages/home2.php

Title: Re: New Site & New Templates
Post by: heavenchun83 on August 17, 2006, 08:05:50 AM

I think just ok........but some font color is not match.I means like font red and blue background for wb version.........but not bad also........if using simple design and black white design,i think will be better..........

Title: Re: New Site & New Templates
Post by: kweitzel on August 17, 2006, 09:41:13 AM

it's not a bad copy, zou just need to get zour margins - paddings right ... again, keep on.

cheers

Klaus