I thought I would add a page on my site explaining its construction as the site itself is built with Drupal and itself is a part of my portfolio.

The site has undergone already a few different incarnations but needed to be updated due to changes in my status and needs. Im now a more active twitter user and feel and strange urge to blog here and there. Instead of just updating my old site i thought I'd give it a fresh overhaul. So here is the technical info.

The Theme

The theme was designed and created by myself, the background image was purchased at istockphoto.com and then edited in Adobe Fireworks CS4 to fit the needs of the site. Some parts of the site use partially transparent png images such as the content wrapper background and the navigation and is therefore not accessible in Internet Explorer 6. But claiming less than 6% of the browser market last time i checked, I felt it unnecessary, otherwise the site is optimised for all browsers and screen sizes across the windows and mac platforms.

The Structure

This site uses a two column layout with the right sidebar being used primary as links and additional information relating to the content being displayed. The aggregator module was used to import Facebook and Twitter feeds from my accounts and display them. The Twitter feed is displayed directly on screen whereas the Facebook feed is displayed via Views to control the output.

CCK is used to create a content type specifically for my web projects. From this I can continually and easily add more projects over time without affecting other content on the site. The information in these projects are then used and displayed via Views.

The home page is created using mainly the Views module to display teaser content included in the site and the blog module of course for my simple blogging needs. Other modules used in the contruction of this site include, pathauto, imagefield, NoIE6, CAPTCHA and poor mans cron.