It's ALIVE...
Posted by Matt White, Wed Dec 05 21:38:00 UTC 2007
Thermal has launched our new website! Well, to be completely honest, it’s our FIRST website. Up to this point we’ve been surviving on a first-round logo draft and no business cards, which I suppose is a testament to the strength of the economy and the demand for people like us.
However, we had some time this fall, and decided to get all professional-like and make an actual website.
The site is based on Drupal, with a lot of help from Views, CCK, and ImageCache. My biggest frustration (as mentioned in the previous post) is the difficulty in building themes and customizing the appearance of modules. Shamefully, I did end up hacking the core contact form, after all of my wrangling with hook_form didn’t produce the desired results. Since Drupal modules often end up outputting HTML (though they should do a minimum of this if they use the theme functions), it seems that some hacking is always required to get the job done.
Also included were Javascript support from ThickBox and JCarousel. This was also my first experience with JQuery, and it’s not bad at all. A lot of similarities to Prototype, though I still like the Prototype coding style a bit better.
We’re still planning for more features in the future for the site, but for now it’s back to the “real” work!