Modern Home Portal - Iridium
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- zheeka
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http://www.moderandom.com
An architecture and interior/exterior design portal in croatian language.
Additional Extensions : only two of them: Jxtc's newspro module and JommComment. I am trying to develop a fast loading non-complicated portal and I think that less non-core addons is better :cheesy:
I'd like some feedback on loading times, and I still haven't had the time to thoroughly check it for cross-browser compatibility so if anybody sees something weird, please do comment here!
Thnx
Zheeka
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- Sheldon
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Very clean, nice design. Seemed to load in good time.
No browser issues I could see at a glance on Firefox/Mac. There was an odd horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the main column in one page.
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- Insider Emirates
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- My site it iridium based ( insideremirates.com ). I have no idea how you managed to make your site look like that! Beautifully clean. I may ask for some tips!
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- zheeka
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Insider Emirates wrote:
My site it iridium based ( insideremirates.com ). I have no idea how you managed to make your site look like that! Beautifully clean. I may ask for some tips!
Well thank you very much!
I have taken a look at your site, it is a very interesting site and I can see some improvements to it but that could be an entirely subjective opinion....but anyway, here it comes :cheesy: :
You do have a lot of content meant for your homepage, and that asks for some serious and intuitive organisation of displaying news to your users. When I need to display different sections of articles on frontpage, I try to make main news modules look as similar as possible (as you did in the middle column) and diferentiate them by, let's say, specific color of module headings, just so frequent users can quickly scroll to and distinguish the desired content from other content in which they have less interest, without having to "search" for it through the frontpage.
Allso, my (humble) opinion is that modules in "inset" module position would serve better purpouse if put into module position "inset2", beacuse that would "push" your main content to the left side of your site, and that is, I think, the best place for displaying main content of your frontpage (now your main content is bounded by all sides with lots of different info and possibilities).
P.S.: Please do note that after three years of working in web design and development I still consider myself as a noob, so all I said here could very well be totaly wrong, it's just my opinion :cheesy: :cheesy:
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- Insider Emirates
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Thanks so much Zheeka - I totally get what you are saying - especially after looking at your site - it is so clear and simple.
On Insider there is a lot more going on, in part because - unlike you - I sort of started without knowing where I wanted to end up. A basic mistake I guess.
I think the result is that your site follows conventions and has a real clarity of purpose. My site will take you a bit of time to get your head around which people may not have time for.
Moving to inset2 is probably a good idea... but I have to build up the strength. Will require a little reworking. I don't think the page would balance if I just moved the columns around.
Would be very interested to here how you can colour code headers. These are taking the iridium style sheet so I would need to rework that I am guessing... Would really like to know how you also colour the insides of the boxes you have.... Very cool.
Thanks again for spending the time thinking about my site - really, really helpful.
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- zheeka
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well, let me try and explain how I managed to add custom colors.
We both used the same template style which is defined in css file named style2.css
You can find it under .../templates/rt_iridium_j15/css/style2.css .
It has three module styles called hilite1, hilite2 and hilite3.
Basicaly all i did was to:
1. copy those four lines of code inside style2.css that start with .hilite2 and
2. paste it below the line of code which starts with .hilite3
3. Then I changed the beginnings of every newly created row from .hilite2 to .hilite4 and changed colors to my preferences. I allso removed the background image just by commenting it out (maybe I will use it later in future)
4. the last step is to edit the file template.css which can be found here: .../templates/rt_iridium_j15/css/template.css
You have to find a row which starts like this:and just add newly made styling there. it should look like this:.hilite1 .module-inner, .hilite2 .module-inner, .inset .module-inner
you have to do this last step only if you want to preserve the same inner paddings as other module styles..hilite1 .module-inner, .hilite2 .module-inner, .hilite4 .module-inner, .inset .module-inner
I repeated steps 1 to 4 for every new module style I wanted, and the only difference is that in step 3 you have to give a new number to the styling you make (.hilite5, .hilite6......)
I know I'm bad at explaining things, so if you have trouble understanding these steps I can do it for you, it's realy extremely simple and takes just a few minutes to do it.
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- RedRiverBlack
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