New Website Look & Feel - Feedback

It's incredibly simple to use. Thanks

Feedback received was that the teasers on the Wellness page (generated by Simple Views module, sorted by title alphabetically) did not coincide with the submenu order.

Using the Views module, I removed the sort by title, and added a sort by node id, now it jives!

I added an Advanced help module, to assist with Views development.

For fun, I also added the Nice Menus module, and placed their canned block onto the footer.  Our current theme already has this capability; it has been enabled and is shown at the top of the page (not really the header, it is built right into the theme).  Feel free to compare the two.  I like the theme-based one better (has nicer shadowing).

What I really like is the drop menus in concert with the dynamic side menus.  Watch how they update (expand and contract) depending on where you are at the moment.

[ team effort, 1 hour; result, priceless ]

Well, playing with Simple Views actually.  It's incredibly simple to use!!!

I created two new content types - Events - and Sermon Text

I haven't played with Sermon Text yet, but Events worked beautifully and easily.  Click [Faith Events] and see...

In the usual place where you create content select Event from the list instead of Story or Page

Then, create your Event mash-up including pictures or whatever, much like John would do as separate pulisher files in the old/current environment.

Then, just save it.  I've told "Simple Views" to go and find every node of "Event" type and display the teaser of them in reverse chronological order - although we could also do it as a list if that would work better.  Then if the user wants to know more than the teaser they just click "More" and it goes to the fuller event mash-up.  It will have to fit in the standard drupal page environment, but I think ultimately that's a good thing for consistency.

Also - I tinkered with the front page by making the What's New bit pop out a bit more and adding a horizontal line.  It's weird that the What's New shows as centred in the edit window but displays justified left???

I also edited and rearranged the front page right hand sidebar elements.  We don't need the worship info there anymore because it's now in the masthead.

This is fun!!!!!!!!

Shalom,
Larry
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I added the Images Module, which provides image file import, and storage within "galleries".

I created a main gallery at Faith - Photos. Administrators can create more nested galleries.

Images can also be uploaded individually, then inserted into web pages using the WYSIWYG editor with a URL link.