My Drupal Blog

So, as promised, here's the full write up on the Lhmdesign redesign. I'll cover the whole site, but focus mainly on the blog section as it incorporates the more complex setup and theming.

Firstly, then, a few details:

• I built the site in Firefox, with frequent use of the ever awesome Firebug extension.
• IE7 corrections were handled using conditional comments placed in the page.tpl.php file.
• IE6 fixes were handled via a secondary style sheet - a process which I outlined previously here.
• Safari and Opera corrections are a straight up hack:
  @media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
  #divid {
    rules: here;
  }
}
• Blog posts are story nodes which, by default, are promoted to the front page and have comments enabled.
• Blog post tags are a vocabulary (admin/content/taxonomy/add/vocabulary).

The entire site is built on Drupal 5.7. I would have liked to build it on 6.x, but a number of the contributed modules used don't yet have 6.x support, so for now it's 5.7 all the way.

And speaking of modules (smooth eh ;) the ones I've used (excluding core required modules) are:

THEMING:

Due to the site being built on Drupal 5.7 the theme is also tailored for Drupal 5.x, so just be aware that all following references are as such.

After a few weeks of tinkering, I am pleased today to launch the newly redesigned Lhmdesign.

I'll be posting a detailed explanation of the site's construction (particularly the theming :) in a couple of days time, so please stick any questions you have about the new site in the comments.

Thanks!

So, long-story-short, I've decided it's time to give the whole Lhmdesign site, including this blog, a redesign. It's been about a year now since the current design went live and, well, you know what designers are like - fiddlers!

Anyway, as this blog is written for you, I'd like to get your input on what features etc. you think should stay/go/be introduced in the redesign.

Currently, I'm thinking:

Staying

• Most recent posts block
• RSS subscription options

Going

• Random tags cloud block
• Sponsors block

New Stuff

• Most popular posts block
• Top commenters block
• Subscribe via e-mail option
• Recommended block
• Categories block/page

Any thoughts?