Chawlk

1. Drawar
2. Fenxy
3. Decaflon
4. Two Credits
5. Wriging
6. Loose Suits
7. Chixe
8. Dud3s
9. Wing Colors

 

so, in taking hints from ya'll, and a bit of my own relative ingeniousness, I went ahead and redesigned the Home Grown Music site template, and this is what I came up with...

I've still got some more tweaking to do, some more modules/functions, and will probably redesign the front page panels, but this is what I've got now...

Would love to hear what ya'll think so far, and any suggestions too.

http://www.homegrownmusic.net/

thanks!
-Trevor

I second Drupal...

They have lots of content modules which relate directly to audio/video...

The template system for Drupal is pretty easy to work with too...on a very simple level, it's just a matter of plugging in a few php snippets into an html template, though I'm sure most CMS' have matured to about that point now.

Most of the time I work in a pretty silent environment by myself..but for some reason, today, I have a Widespread Panic show from '98 blaring in the background while I work on some customer documentation...it's on the house stereo too, because my computer speakers aren't that great...and no-where near as loud...

Hats are awesome...if you feel comfortable wearing it, then do so!

And remember, most of the time, people are more worried about what you think they look like, and not what you look like.

yeah, it's pretty out of this world...

but that Millennium Falcon remote...oh lawdy, I gotta have one!

do restraining orders expire? lol

seriously though...do they?

no, really, I've run into quite a few here and there over time, and it's in some cases a lot like running into an old best friend to...hi, how're you, etc...small talk, b/s in my book...

I personally never seek out any of my old flames...as I'm not sure if restraining orders expire or not...(j/k) Honestly, what is there, could there really be to say...

-t

very sad...

the RAMA series was one of my favorite all time sets of books read...might have to re-read them again...

two of my favorites:

"While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one."
-Salvador Dali

"The more we know, the more we learn that we know nothing."
-Ayn Rand

the white lines are definitely a distraction, and they do have a slight element of...and it's hard to explain, but almost like looking at one of those odd optical illusion images...does that make sense?

I agree with Oli regarding title/date and such on the left side...the related posts seem to take my attention away from the content as well

two things...

the lines are very "distracting", though, you mentioned a possible change in color scheme, so that might help...to me, the white lines are the "distracting" element in that they are very contrast to the design.

your h2 titles, they are kind of small and dark, and overpowered by the white lines. A change of sorts to the h2 titles that makes them a bit more prominent may offset the lines contrast I mentioned

there's my two cents...and dammit...now I'm broke again...

Overall, I really do like the design ! !

well, I am more of a live music fan (jambands and the like)...and most of these do their best financially selling concert tickets, as opposed to record & merchandise sales.

Now, if I happen to like one of these bands, I will, in addition to buying regular tickets to their shows, purchase cds and such to help "further the cause".

A prime examples from my own experience...and I know I'm not the "norm", but I have HUNDREDS of hours of live Widespread Panic recordings (well over 150 cd's)...and some of these are super high quality (better than what you can get at a store anyday). These were also all freely traded either online via bit torrent, or through a network of folks I know personally. That being said, I also "try" to see anywhere from 5-15 Panic shows a year. And on top of that, at least once a year, I buy a shirt or something, and a poster or two from the concert's merch booth. AND, I also own almost every studio & live commercial release on cd (and a couple of tapes), and several vhs/dvd movies. The only thing I haven't hopped on in this case, is purchasing the live recordings from their "concert vault".

Now...this type business model doesn't work for everyone, but right now, Panic is 25 years into the game, full on, and they are one of the top touring acts around. This same model has also worked for The Grateful Dead, Phish, String Cheese Incident, Sound Tribe Sector 9, The Allman Brothers, Lotus, and many others...

clear out of the blue last saturday night (sunday morning really), I revived "jeepers"....and it's been stuck in my personal vocab since...

*UPDATE*

Well, I've known from the start, that if "I could rewrite" the form, I'd be able to do what I needed to do...well, turns out using phptemplate in Drupal...I can...

so...yet something else to learn...lets see how this goes once I figure out how to rebuild all the variables and whatever else would go in there into the custom template just for that form!

-t

it's AMAZING what a halfway good night's sleep will do...plus some help in the right direction of the use of block:

so I GOT it...and I think I got it right...at least on three browsers...FF/IE/Opera, Safari is still showing it messed up...but also safari acts funky on XP sometimes so...

here is the link with the form in place...had to make some more css adjustments to counter stuff that drupal does, as well as some of the theme css...

Form In Use

Now, and I was able to get the next part somewhat handled, but still running into another issue, and I feel I've got my css right...or mostly...

The drupal module adds two radio buttons to the form when you "move into" your search, IE/FF no problem, a little block/float here and there...and all was right with the world...but, back to the opera problem...nope nadda

so here is the cut version of the form with the radio buttons
[new form]

again, a huge thanks to you two...

*I'll be over here pulling my hair out and trying more combinations of what might/might not work in the meantime*

-trev

tried adding just that, as well as tried getting rid of some of the "extra" css, and had those two elements like this:

#faceted-search-ui-form .form-text { /* text box */
background-color: #FFF;
border 1px solid #000;
width:170px;
}
#faceted-search-ui-form .form-submit { /* submit button */
margin-top:2px;
height:20px;
background-color: #FFF;
border: 1px solid #000;
width:60px;
}

plus I've tried who knows how many float: and display: combinations...I think I've even repeated on or two...

also, I've found sometimes, especially when are already in "the mix", taking classes on what I'm already doing, tends to lag me behind a bit, but some years back, I took a simple class in c++, with no intention of ever becoming a programmer, and immediatly, I never felt like I learned much, but some time later, I found the things I did learn there instantly applied to my unix world, whether it was learning perl for the first time, or having to go in and edit kernel or apache source files...

I also don't advertise that I took this class, as it never really applied, but it did sure help my skills at being an engineer.

finally...

If it doesn't work out, that's fine. At least I tried.

Don't take that attitude :) approach this with the zest of "this has got to work", "I can do this"...my first year not having a "real job" SUCKED...but now, I think my skills are catching up to my aspirations, and I feel good about what I do now...

good luck friend :)

here's a couple things you could try

offer your skills towards some pro-bono type charity work you believe in, local church/civic groups/school, etc...and it's a great way to get the word of mouth on you started...

build some open source templates and get them onto sites like opendesigns.org

-t

I'm unfortunately lacking in proper terminology...so please bear with me :)

input as in my submit button ?

block level elements as in my input,text/input,submit/anchor ?

yup...just like it appears now in firefox or ie

nice effect :)

works now (I looked at it last night), so am guessing you fixed it..using FF2 here

nope...nothing but .post & #faux are set to 100%

not much css in the way of handling ol's

thanks :)

I think this was the winning ticket:

I ran into something "similar" not too long ago...maybe poking around my stuff can help, but if I recall I had to do some playing with z-index's and wmode opaque on the swf object...doesn't work in IE6 though

here is the site I'm talking about: http://www.amjam.net/

'96 Jeep Cherokee, 200K + miles, PAID For, and runs solid...

awesome info, thanks ya'll

I've never tried to install drupal into a sub directory...usually I create a new subdomain/hostname of sorts to test on, then move over to production once done...

not sure if your webhost supports that or not...

yeah, saw the thing on D6, can't wait to check it out, however I'm still using 5...and well, from reading the forum, there are people out there still rolling 4.7 sites...all a matter of preference at this point... Plus, I'm also not sure what the overall percentage of modules that might have been ported to 6 yet...

just holler if you have any questions about Drupal, I'll be happy to assist if I can :)

Drupal would be my first choice for this job (really the only one in any case for me).

But you are going to have go get wet...

My thinking would be this though...maybe enough to get you started...

First you'd want to build a custom content type for inventory...you'd need the following modules...
Content Construction Kit (CCK)
CCK Imagefield
Thickbox
and Contemplate (to theme your content type)

Then you would setup a category (aka taxonomy), for cars...there's a lot of different ways this could be done, but you'd have something like this...

Cars
-- Buick
-- Subaru
-- Ford
-- Ferrari
-- Yugo

and so on...once you have your terms setup, then assign that to your inventory content type, and away you go...

this has the potential for becoming very complex very quickly though, as no doubt you'll want custom ways to display the inventory and such, and this would get into views (and possibly panels territory).

@ryanarrowsmith - Booze is supposed to taste, boozey...and the higher quality booze, the better the boozey taste is...

@abi

Yuengling? I have serious doubts about the palate of the entirety of Eastern Pennsylvania. Cheez whiz and watery beer, ew.

NICE Comment!

gotta keep that stuff cold...always have a jar or two in my freezer, never full it seems though :)

and while I'm not a regular drinker(I keep my drinking to weekends, and when I do watch the heck out), but every so often...taking a wee taste does provide a bit of "uplifting" w/out any adverse effects.

that does sound good though, a moonshine margarita

double bourbon on the rocks

(or)

straight outta the bottle (depending on the time of night)

corn liquor (moonshine)

already in my ideal relocation spot...

the wife and I just moved about 6mos ago to rural NC. we're about 30mins from Durham/RTP, 20 mins from Chapel Hill, and 15mins from "town" (or the nearest gas station).

We're surrounded by lush pastures with free range cattle...

a few more trees would be nice though...