[openbeos] Re: New website home page mockup
- From: Gavin James <gavin.james@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:34:57 +0100
Petter Holt Juliussen wrote:
It does at least seems to work somewhat. I don't know what you fixed, but
I'll download the updated version and continue on it. We should try to
apply
that menu box style to the welcome box as I did here:
http://bug-nordic.org/test.php
I think that it would make the welcome box stand out a bit more and
separate
it from the news items.
Agreed!
I've been working on applying that theme to Koki's mockup lately, and I
talked
with him about how on earth we're going to incorporate that page
(http://www.zeta-zone.net/haiku/haiku-home-mockup.jpg)
with Drupal. We'll probably have to hack! ;)
Nope, no need for any hackery on this. :)
Drupal can support different page layouts for different node types, and
even a different layout for the front page. It's also *REALLY* easy to
render the contents of a "block" anywhere in a template file with a tiny
bit of PHP.
I also did a proposal mockup on a system I could write, but since we
have agreed on
sticking to Drupal, I'll stop further development, and try to continue
on the theme /
help out with creating that start page if thats something we're going
for. I wan't to
post my proposal anyway, since I think it has some nice ideas for the
Drupal theme:
http://drupal.bug-nordic.org/haiku-os.org/proposal/index.php (Check out
community, corporate and development as well there). Hope it looks well
in your browsers,
it does in my Firefox! ;)
It looks GREAT, I *REALLY* like it!
With regards to a home-grown system though I would say it just simply
isn't worth the effort. From experience with beunited.org it is an
ENORMOUS undertaking and it's just far too easy to fall into the trap of
not doing things properly and just getting things working, which makes
for a completely unmaintainable system.
There is so much to take into consideration with a content management
system it would be impossible for us in our small team to develop a
solution to fit all needs (our needs today may not necessarily be our
needs tomorrow). Drupal may not be perfect but it is a proven solution
that has stood the test of many a website. It also has a large, avid
community of users and developers which we can exploit to our advantage,
while of course giving back what we can.
As it happens we won't even need to apply a hack for creating different
sections (i.e. Community) as I originally thought. There is a Module,
(Sections) designed for that very thing (applying different templates to
different sections of a Drupal site).
- Gavin
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