Updated the user pages on anthrocon.org

[giza]

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.

Old and busted:		New hotness:

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?

Comments

[kyraeus.livejournal.com]

Very smooth. The gaming additions and such are a really nice touch, since the massive populace of AC are gamer nerds. Did the database port over fairly easily? Or did you have a massive boost of people having to go in and update or bug you about data in their profiles tweaking out/etc?

[giza.livejournal.com]

What database port? I just wrote some PHP code.

[kyraeus.livejournal.com]

Bad wording. More so I was just wondering if the new format of everything played hob with the actual data saved in the profiles at all, since it looks like some of the actual fields didn't exist before, or if it just asked all the previous users to update and add in, leaving the new fields blank until they do.