Crikeymiles.com

I recently completed a refresh of the theming for London-based string quartet, the Finzi Quartet‘s site.

Finzi have been getting a fair amount of exposure and they wanted to ensure their site remained fresh and modern. We went for something that was a little lighter, a little more gentle, and a little crisper. I’m very pleased with the outcome, I hope they are too!

Professional site for actor Kerry Gooderson. Built in Drupal with a theme based around a photo shoot we did in the dressing rooms of the Criterion theatre in London’s West End. The background image was built from the photo shoot images, and a film-frame by Struckdumb, which I found on DeviantArt.

I used pretty standard modules – CCK, Views, Login Destination, Lightbox2, Audio – although I wrote a (10 line) custom module to display a user guide node on an admin url, so that it could be viewed using the admin theme. I also didn’t use the Image module. Custom CCK content type for images + Views = much more flexible and powerful gallery.

I’m very pleased with how this site turned out. Nice tight design and a very tidy admin experience (I hope Kerry will agree!).

Recently completed another Drupal site, this time for London-based string quartet; the Finzi Quartet.

The requirement was for a neat public site, stylish but classy, which captured something of the girls’ personalities and was accessible to a slightly older visitor, in line with the audience for their music.

I chose to use Drupal as they required a quite full featured website which they could keep up to date themselves.

I had a lot of trouble with the Image Gallery module, (which I have to say I’m not a big fan of), and ended up (re)building the photo galleries from scratch using CCK file fields, Views and CSS.

Vanessa and I couldn’t decide on a single shop to put a wedding list in, so I decided to make this here Wedding website. It is a list of all the nice things that we imagine that people will want to to get us! In time, we will add maps and other wedding details, but for now it is a list linking to stuff on other random shops and websites. Once people have claimed a gift, they should put their name against it by editing the item and putting your name in the “Bought By…” field. I hope people can work it out!

I have re-built the Thumpermonkey site in Drupal. Tthe site is now entirely dynamic and super-easy to keep up to date by any of the guys in the band. This is good because (a) we have a bunch of gigs coming up and (b) I’m leaving Thumpermonkey at the end of the year, so I can hand over the admin of the site to the rest of the guys knowing that the site will always look fresh and alive.

Fun and colourful site for my friend Jessica and her new homemade cake business: A Little Of What You Fancy. This is my first full public site with Drupal, and it works really well. Jess has a log-in which allows her to add and edit content (cakes) but all the admin garbage in the background is hidden from her. Still lots to learn, but I think this looks great as a first stab.