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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 7th Jan 2007 15:47
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I'm using drupal to build my website, I've never had any real website, but after Cian kindly set me up something to tag along his website (Koetsu Aboshi) I have taken the chance to actually get myself a website, as I don't care so much for coding or using dreamweaver to make a whole website, but rather something that looks good and is more maintainable.

Now I am not an egghead when it comes to the Mechanics and appearance of a website, although studying a bit of graphology, comments would be appreciated on how I've set everything out so far.

The purposed of my site being for Games, literature, tutorials and 3D modelling related items. (Currently has a prologue to a story, 3 of my tutorials, a project page for my game, a blog, a small forum, and a showcase of my 3D work)

http://seppuku-arts.koetsuaboshi.net/

Cheers dudes.

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Roxas
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Posted: 7th Jan 2007 15:51
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Nice site (goes and download's Drupal in my own php www server )

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Kohaku
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Posted: 7th Jan 2007 16:29
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Tis a nice site. Crammed with stuff. I too use Drupal along with a load of modules for the forum and stuff.

Your site looks fine to me.


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 7th Jan 2007 16:45 Edited at: 7th Jan 2007 17:16
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Good good, cheers, I was a bit hesitant with the side bar and how the links where laid out and the 'Seppuku Arts' bar at the bottom.

Thanks.

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spooky
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Posted: 7th Jan 2007 20:12
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Not bad, but you obviously have a huge monitor running at some huge resolution as the images you have all over the site are far too large and forcing horizontal scroll bars.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 7th Jan 2007 21:01
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I see, well I am running at 1280x1024, I'll guess I'll fix that one.

Cheers.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th Jan 2007 22:31
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I only get horizontal scrollbars if I reduce the window size to about 640 pixels wide. (though the text column is a tad unreadable at that point with only 1 word per line!)

Visually, nothing too exciting. But its simple and the data is organized well and easy to navigate.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 8th Jan 2007 00:06
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I see, I'm afraid with the unreadable column, that lays in how drupal works, I cannot change that (at least from what I've seen I can't), but your browser should be able to increase your text size (In FF its ctrl ++) which is what I do when my resolution is too high for readability on some websites.

Cheers for the comment. (I changed theme of the layout because the colours didn't match as someone told me)

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Phaelax
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Posted: 8th Jan 2007 03:38
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Oh its completely readable at 1600x1200, its just how the text gets laid out when I shrink the window size to a point to create the horizontal scrollbar. As long as you 800x600 or better, the page should appear just fine.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 8th Jan 2007 17:07
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I tried it on our school computers today, they're always at a low resolution, I think it was 640x480 and I personally didn't feel there to be problem although there was a horizontal rule, as for images, I could resize some, but for example the tutorial ones, I think it makes more practical sense to keep them at their resolution.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 10th Jan 2007 10:42 Edited at: 10th Jan 2007 10:43
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Nice site! Try one of the newer themes off the site - (my favourite is BlueBreeze)

I absolutely LOVE drupal as a CMS and as a developer platform. I use it for my site (I made a custom theme - very easy!)

Are you using 4.7.x or 5.0?

I wrote a module for Drupal called Global Redirect. Basically, if you have path.module enabled then you potentially have two URL's for every page (the node/123 one and the alias one) - which is search engine suicide due to duplicate content. Global Redirect checks the current URL for any aliases and redirects (301) to the target. Example:
http://www.sportbusiness.com/node/161024
http://www.sportbusiness.com/news/161024/fia-creates-new-motor-sport-commission

Sportbusiness is a Drupal site I developed at work - its now been handed over to a colleague to maintain while I work on converting www.pponline.co.uk into Drupal (which is almost done).

EDIT: Switch on Clean URL's from the Admin section - makes the site's URL's look nicer

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