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Updated the user pages on anthrocon.org
Wow, it's been awhile since I've written here. Real life has had me very busy lately. I've done some neat things though, and I hope to post more about them soon.
The first neat thing I did recently was to roll out some badly needed updates for the user pages on anthrocon.org.
Before, I merely used the default pages that Drupal provided. The problem was that the pages looked a little... bland. Among other things, there were no icons for the various social networking services, and that just wouldn't do. So I read up on how to customize the user profile layout in Drupal and spent a couple of evenings writing some PHP code and making use of Drupal's theming functions.
Here are the old and the new pages side by side. Click on either to get a full page in a separate window.
The upside of this effort is that when I'm ready to upgrade the Save Ardmore Coalition site to Drupal 6, I can pretty much just copy over my user templates on a wholesale basis, and save myself from having to redo all that work. :-)
How has everyone else been here in LJ-land?
The first neat thing I did recently was to roll out some badly needed updates for the user pages on anthrocon.org.
Before, I merely used the default pages that Drupal provided. The problem was that the pages looked a little... bland. Among other things, there were no icons for the various social networking services, and that just wouldn't do. So I read up on how to customize the user profile layout in Drupal and spent a couple of evenings writing some PHP code and making use of Drupal's theming functions.
Here are the old and the new pages side by side. Click on either to get a full page in a separate window.
| Old and busted: | New hotness: | |
|---|---|---|
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The upside of this effort is that when I'm ready to upgrade the Save Ardmore Coalition site to Drupal 6, I can pretty much just copy over my user templates on a wholesale basis, and save myself from having to redo all that work. :-)
How has everyone else been here in LJ-land?