New website for Delmot

Yesterday I made a new website for Delmot (www.del-mot.be). It's another example of how fast you can create something nice with Drupal.

The template is purchased from www.templatemonster.com for a meager 55 USD. I was surprised to even find Cufon font substitution correctly used in the template. The default CSS classes for the Drupal basic content types where installed, although some hardlinks had to be adapted in the CSS to correctly implement the included menu icons. (yes I know those need to be replaced with something more meaningfull someday).

The Drupal installation is as standard as can be, with only the Imagecache module installed to correctly resize the project images. Instead of using views/cck to construct my project list, I just used the standard blog and formatted the content appropriately by quickly adding a "left column" and "right column" div in the CSS. I then entered the project descriptions in full HTML with my own markup instead of filtered HTML. At the suggestion of @litrik I also added the Pathauto module to ensure URL's are human readable, which is also better for SEO.

Since the site only is in 1 language, I misused the translation feature of Drupal to rename all references to "blog" into "project list", a much quicker and easier way then implementing a custom content type. "Project list" is now the Dutch translation of "Koen's Blog" and the site is switched to Dutch. Thanks to all of my shortcuts, most of the day was spent creating content, with the actual website construction, CSS editing and Drupal configuration and deployment only taking a few hours.