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I just am working on transferring my web hosting to just host and it is a giant pain! Taking forever! I'm kinda at a stall until I get this completed. I will be doing mass work over spring break! I hope you all have a fantastic Spring break 2 and spring break 3

-Kyle

jeff is a genius.





do you see that? different backgrounds, same CSS. thanks to jeff.

as of right now, i'm working on picking out different backgrounds and editing my newly taken portfolio photos.

also, i will probably start designing another website in the same manner (drupal) for a friend who needs a small portfolio site.
so i will be extra needy.

tonight i spent time researching domain/hosting options.
what i have found so far:

godaddy.com
hostgator.com
pair.com
networksolutions.com
1and1.com
justhost.com
domain.com

obviously, i want it to be reliable and affordable. oh and support drupal and be not terribly confusing for a n00b like me.

thoughts?

Hosting

So I haven't made much progress in the last few days because I've been out of town, but I thought I'd make a post anyway. Danelle texted me earlier to ask about hosting and domain names, so I just thought I'd share about mine. I got both my hosting and domain name through GoDaddy.com. The domain name was like 15 bucks or something like that. The hosting service was more expensive. I got it last summer for like 130 bucks or so, but that is for 3 years worth of hosting with GoDaddy. Drupal should be compatible with GoDaddy as far as I know but I haven't tested it. Anyway I think there are probably free hosting places out there so don't go paying 130 bucks just because you think Danica Patrick is hot.

-Love Dan

I have been playing with the css trying to figure out how to get these two nodes to sit right where I want them. I have not had much luck though.

These first two are modules I'm considering playing with. They seem like they could be potentially helpful, but also potentially distracting.

http://drupal.org/project/glossary

http://drupal.org/project/nodeasblock

These two links lead to blog posts that focus on helping with Drupal development. I've found some useful information, but at the same time I've found a lot of information that I'm not sure what to do with.

http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/weblog/drupal_tip_1_inserting_blocks_content_pages_blog_entries_etc

http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/taxonomy/term/101

While visiting this blog, however, I discovered that a problem I have with Drupal on my machine is translating to other Drupal-based websites.


The first image is a screen capture from the blog I just referenced, and the second is from my drupal test site. It seems to be a problem with anything classified as a certain header type, but I'm not entirely sure how to go about fixing it. Any ideas?

This is what I'm looking at as of today. I've got my logo and navigation in the correct location. The specific CSS styles are what has been giving me the most issues.

From the start of this direction I wanted my website design to rely heavily on visual interpretation and not so much on verbal. I wanted the emphasis for my gallery website to be on pictures, and I knew that I needed to limit my online portfolio to a very small selection of pieces.

With this comp I realized that I wanted the visitor to know immediately what they could find and how they could find it. By bringing thumbnails and the sub-navigation for the gallery page to the forefront of the website I could immediately immerse the viewer in my work, which seems to be a proper introduction to who I am and how I think.

(As a note: the 'magenta' parts are what would appear during a rollover state and each section would have actual images, not gray boxes (admittedly I am still working on thumbnail images for each section, and even on category titles).)