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hey there laurence, i came

katholicgirl — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:33:44 -0700

hey there laurence,

i came across your blog while trying to find a possible solution to a redesign problem. i would concur with the comments posted above. i would almost love to see a contents page if that is possible, just because i'm an amateur, closet techie who, perhaps, spends way too much time teaching myself bits of code. that said, your categories column is much more helpful (& easier to scan through) than most.

i was wondering if you could offer a suggestion to a fix regarding, surprise surprise, firefox/explorer page view. i'm new to the drupal community, so i'll likely be posting this question there too. ff is fine; explorer has defaulted the background color of my content from white to a terrible shade of pink, and is also blocking some images (although the icon shows that the path isn't broken). i'd read about z-index, but i'm not sure if that applies to the images, plus it all started to hurt my head. could you take a quick look? the in-progress redesign site is morenamedia.com/index.php (firefox is how it should be, explorer is doing it's own thing -- also, i purposely got explorer to ignore the search bar in the header as it was causing me too much grief, so the difference there was intentional).

thanks for a really resourceful and easy to follow blog!

Hi Bikram, I think what

Laurence — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:20:41 -0700

Hi Bikram,
I think what you're after is the 'Post Settings' page (Log in > Administer > Post settings
- URL admin/content/node-settings).

Here you can change the length of your trimmed posts to 'unlimited' which will then effectively disable teasers, although only for new or updated content.

Hey man sorry to bother, but

Bikram — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:22:36 -0700

Hey man sorry to bother, but ive been working on a school project for a week now and found no solutions. Were making a website on drupal and trying to put a story on the front page or any page for that matter and want the content displayed in full without any link to lead to it, so the entier story would be displayed in full in the body of the page without any links at all (leading to the body of after the body). Do you have any advice, we are total newbs using Drupal.

Thank You

Thanks Eric - I guess it

Laurence — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:48:40 -0700

Thanks Eric - I guess it would be wrong to rate myself... ;)

Laurence, Sorry, I must've

Drupal Museum — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:16:14 -0700

Laurence,

Sorry, I must've looked at the image above the background in the "view image information" page of my firefox web developer plugin. Anyway, nice site... I just added it to Drupal Museum.

All of my posts have break

Laurence — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:20:20 -0700

All of my posts have break tags already.

The reason the whole post is aggregated on Drupal Planet is because I publish whole posts in my RSS feed.

please add a break tag the

Guest — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:45:09 -0700

please add a break tag the whole article got on the Drupal Planet

Hi Kieran, thanks for the

Laurence — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:36:29 -0700

Hi Kieran,
thanks for the suggestion - I'll have a look at doing that.

It would be great to add

Kieran Lal — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:01:58 -0700

It would be great to add this as a case study here http://drupal.org/cases

Thanks for writing this up.

Kieran

Hi Eric, thanks for your

Laurence — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:39:18 -0700

Hi Eric, thanks for your comment about the design. However, the background image already is a JPG (and has always been so). I've actually now reduced it in size from its original 180KB (when I launched the new design) to the current 95KBish.

With regards the portfolio images you may have a fair point, although even for these images PNG files are not always larger than the equivalent JPG, and can sometimes have both a smaller file size and better quality.

I guess in both cases it's the old problem of balancing quality vs file size
- I'm still working on that one ;)

I really like the design!

Drupal Museum — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:58:40 -0700

I really like the design! You could make the background image a whole lot smaller if you make it a jpg. Same goes for your portfolio images. Png's are great for gradients but excessively large for what you're using them for. Just a suggestion.

Hi Chad, that's a good point

Laurence — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:43:33 -0700

Hi Chad, that's a good point you make about the right-clicking and opening in a new tab - I'll see if there's a way to resolve it.

I'm not sure why the pages are scrolling slowly for you - they scroll fine for me. If anyone else has this issue please leave a comment.

Thanks.

Hey Laurence, Looks good,

Chad — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:05:10 -0700

Hey Laurence, Looks good, one quick thing.. you can't rightclick "open in new window" on your node title due to flash, a lot of users work in tabs. Also, the pages scroll very slow? Looks good though!

Hi, the sidebar block h2s

Laurence — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:09:15 -0700

Hi, the sidebar block h2s are Helvetica Neue LT Std, 65 Medium, 14 point, with sharp anti-aliasing - try saying that quickly!

Hey Laurence, What approach

Guest — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:20:22 -0700

Hey Laurence, What approach did you take to creating the text images for the sidebar headers? By approach, I mean Font and aliasing. It looks really clean.