[Contest] Mount Carmel College of Nursing - Replicant
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- Scott B.
- Elite Rocketeer
- Posts: 600
- Thanks: 2
- Web Developer, UI Developer
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- Website URL: www.mccn.edu
- Additional Extensions (Components, Modules, Plug ins): Heavily modified versions of the standard modules and plug-ins (including Rok components/modules).
- Custom Development: Background Switcher by Section ID with PHP , IE 6 Pathway PNG Fix , customized main menu, customized top menu, added footer menu module, over 20 module-suffix additions, including customization of module hilites (added transparency to headers, etc.), padding adjustments, etc. Completely customized side navigation, and notice styles (added a PDF notice style). Modified the Newsflash Module to dynamically display random news items at the top, most current 3 on the homepage, and a repository on the News Releases category. I needed to design a new module location to integrate with the contentpane. In addition, edited the NewsFlash module to display the list automatically in the PDF notice style with bullets. Modified the RokLatest module on the front page to allow the use of different PNG files for the category listings. I have many more, so if you find something you like or have a question about, please feel free to ask!
- Other Features: Outside product being used for the flash slideshow, SlideShow Pro.
- Any specific areas of my site that I'd like feedback on, if any: Worked heavily within each CSS file to ensure maximized compatibility with IE6, IE7, Firefox 2.x, and Safari. So please feel free to comment on any issues you are finding with the site. Two issues I am aware of are (1) on Linux boxes running Firefox, the menu drops behind the Flash slideshow, and (2) the new Apache web server will not be ready until mid-September so we are running it on an old IIS box that is causing some lag. The site will run faster and more efficiently once the server is installed.
- Additional Comments: This was my first project working with the Joomla CMS (worked mostly with custom ColdFusion CMSs) and the biggest challenge I had was trying to not make the site look to "CMSified". Overall, I was pleased with the results and extremely, extremely thrilled with how this theme worked into the site. It adds originality, without falling to far from the Replicant roots. My client was blown away with the results (simply loved the transparency items) and is launching their advertising campaign on the 27th of August. I can't thank this site enough for producing outstanding templates and 5 Star support.
Great job to the RocketTheme team & thanks to the members of this forum and to my counterpart Bill--my partner in crime/PHP/MySQL guru on the project ;D
Scott
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Site finally moved to a Quad Core Duo with Apache (from IIS) on 1/27/08. Not only is the site 500% faster, I've incorporated JoomSEO and ArtioSEF plugins/components to take advantage of .htaccess. - Last Edit: 16 years 11 months ago by Scott B..
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- The Wingman
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Amazing use of the template... 
- "You can learn a lot from a dummy. So, pay attention to yourself." Quote by me.
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If there was a site of the month, this would be it - Outstanding!!
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- Heather Claus
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Scott, it looks just wonderful. You done your clients proud.
I know what it is like to come over to Joomla from another system. It is a shock, yet exhilarating, eh? I just turned away from the dark side, myself. ;D - --
Heather M. Claus
www.nookienotes.com/index.php <--- in development
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- Scott B.
- Elite Rocketeer
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- Web Developer, UI Developer
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Thanks all! It was about 6 weeks of development before the go-live. I was lucky because 95% of the content already existed on the old site, so I just had to populate for the most part.
I am still having trouble with the flash slideshow and linux-Firefox/Iceweasel/Konquerer browsers (the menu drops behind the module). I'm not sure if anyone here has had this issue--but help in resolving it would be great. If it helps, it may just be a flash issue as I noticed the same thing happens on Adobe's actual homepage! - ٩(•̮̮̃•̃)۶
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- GollumX
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Overall, Truly great work!
I rarely see the small-caps font-variant in use... looks great in the menu.
I'll also take this opportunity to thank you for submitting the changing background code back to the community... I'll definitely use it... thanks heaps. - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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- Robby Timmermans
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I can only say that this site is a true beauty. The code for the changing background is great. The way the background and the topbanner seem to flow in each other is magnificent.
About your problem: maybe this has something to do with the z-index ? - I use simplix, does this mean that I'm a simple guy ?
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- Jeffrey Reger
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Very beautiful work! I'm in the process of trying to convince Southern States to go with Joomla! and a RocketTheme (they like Replicant and Simplex the best). I'm going to use this in my showcase of the fact that a template like Replicant can be used as a starting point and then customized to give a unique look/feel to the site without looking the same as 100 other sites.
Uphill battle, but this is a great example. <salute> - ___________________________
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- Skeeter
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Scott,
The site looks great! All of the customizations and modifications make this an excellent example of the versatility of this template and the skill of your programmer and design team.
I want to use SlideShow Pro in some of my sites and I really like the no-padding in your example. Since there is no module suffix parameter in SSP to add a hillite, where did you attach your <div class="moduletable-advert1nopad"> to the "advert1" module location. I am a newbie too and so I don't seem to be able to figure this out. The blended look you have achieved here really looks nice.
Thanks,
Skeeter
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- Scott B.
- Elite Rocketeer
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Thanks again everyone, this is truly a great theme (thanks RocketTheme) and I am constantly amazed with the versatility of the Joomla CMS. Our team consisted of two--myself and Bill--and we were able to get things up and running in less than two months. I worked on all of the design and CSS aspects while Bill worked with the PHP/MySQL stuff (I dabbled in PHP coming up with the newsflash customization and found myself very impressed with the ease of use of the code and library).
Robby - we've tried all of the obvious fixes and none seem to work. I have noticed that even Adobe's own website has the same issue with Linux.
Another bug we're working on is that we have to embed all flash as objects instead of using javascript. There is some sort of conflict somewhere that is causing the javascript to crap out on Safari and IE6.
Another bug we have fixed with the IE png .htc file was that if in the configuration.php file, the $mosConfig_live_site = is set to " www.mccn.edu " if a user browses to "mccn.edu" without the "www" the png .htc fix would not load (until another page is served by $mosConfig_live_site).
To solve this issue, in the root index.php file, we put the following code in after line 12 (remember, we're running on IIS at the moment, once the Apache is installed, we'll use .htaccess to solve this)"
//IE Redirect $ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; if (strpos($ua,'MSIE') != false && strpos($ua,'Opera') === false) { if (substr($ua,strpos($ua,'MSIE')+5,1) < 7) { if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'mccn.edu') { header('Location:http://www.mccn.edu'); } } }
This uses an http re-direct for IE6(-) only to re-direct users to " www.mccn.edu " instead of "mccn.edu". Crappy work-around as the page loads twice--but hey, if you're using IE6, that's your problem
Skeeter, add the CSS moduletable-advert1nopad with padding: 0px to your template CSS and in the IE6 template, add the same (div.moduletable-advert1nopad) with a margin-bottom of -3px to solve the padding issue in IE6 at the bottom. Then, in your module under Module Class Suffix, just add -advert1nopad and bam! No padding.
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