Posted by ksweet on June 27, 2011 at 3:55pm
Last week we launched our new website running on OpenPublish. Our previous website was running on an older version of Joomla! Check it out for an idea of what you can do on this platform. I can answer any questions you might have about how I developed it. Hopefully it gives some of you ideas that you can implement on your own websites.
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Good work :)
Good work :)
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Mega Menu ...
ksweet thanks for sharing this, nice work !
Your OP site has not too much theme modifications,
but please,
can you share with us, how did you implement the mega menu ? Is this a module ?
This is my site, not finished yet, I would like to implement a mega menu also.
Thanks in advance !
Your site is looking
Your site is looking great!
The mega menu is indeed a module. You can find it here:
http://drupal.org/project/megamenu
Mega menu module
I had missed this module !
Thank you so much, i will give it a try.
Did you have to do a lot of
Did you have to do a lot of modifications from the standard OP menu to get the megamenus to work?
Looks great!
It's been awhile since I did
It's been awhile since I did the menus. I think what I did was disable the OpenPublish menu module and enable the megamenu module. From there it's just about creating the hierarchy in the Drupal menu system and the megamenu module adds extra markup to the menu items.
If that's all you did to
If that's all you did to replace the menu, then OP may find a place on my dev server this weekend. ;)
Using OP for Drupal 7
Hi Ksweet,
Would it be possible if we can converse offline .. drop me an email ..
The site that you did looks good ..
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The site looks nice, but was
The site looks nice, but was the design created in-house or was it outsourced? The one drawback is the drain on time from performing minor changes to a site.
I did the design myself, so
I did the design myself, so it was in-house. I'm a developer, though, not a designer, so that was the hardest part of the project for sure! I'm actually a part-time graduate assistant working for KSMU--historically a programmer, but since I didn't have access to graphic designers or anything of the sort I did my best to fulfill both roles.
Modules
If this is a live site, could you please share which modules are enabled ... because in a openpublish distribution there are many modules for development and not for live site?
Way too many to list. I
Way too many to list. I probably need to turn off some modules.
Megamenu & OP installation step-by-step
Thanks to ksweet for the inspiration. I've been hoping to install a megamenu into OpenPublish and finally did it this weekend. Hope these step-by-steps help someone else avoid some trials.
Install Megamenu into OP (downloaded from http://drupal.org/project/megamenu, expand and copy the files into sites/all/modules).
Enable it from Megamenu menu (admin/build/megamenu) to work with Primary Links (admin/build/menu-customize/primary-links). Be sure to use 3 nested levels when laying out your menu. Drag items to the right to nest.
From the Context menu (admin/build/context), edit the sitewide context (openpublish-general-sitewide). From that context's Blocks, assign the block "Megamenu - Primary links" to Header. Flush the cache (admin/content/clearcache) for luck.
It works!
To make it work with the usual OP layout, you might want to edit the file sites/all/themes/yoursubtheme/page/page-header.tpl.php to take out the standard OP primary menu, etc.
It might be smarter to set up another region just for that menu, rather than put it into the header. I haven't dealt with the CSS to dress it up yet but Megamenu comes with 2 basic treatments to start from.
great site!
Hey there, great site you're running man, I'm trying to build something like that myself (have drupal 7 and OP) ... setting up a local news site for our city in Belgium.
The problem is (maybe you can help me out) that I never see any administrator menu.
I installed Openpublish, it finished correctly, but all I see is the title of my site and "No front page content has been created yet."
I can't even create a frontpage since it's not possible to get in to any administration thing.
How do you enable that?
greetings
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Is there a tool button in the
Is there a tool button in the upper left hand corner of your page? Try clicking that. If it isn't there, you may need to login as the administrator user. If you're logged in and you don't see a tool button in the upper left corner, your installation might be corrupt. I would try a clean install.
By the way, I'm actually living in Liège, Belgium right now. What city are you building this for?
Thanks ksweet, I don't see a
Thanks ksweet, I don't see a tool button (just the openpublish logo + site title) there is no toolbar, no login app, no button, ... nothing (I've tested with 4 different browsers, adblockers disabled and all).
The strange part is that the installer finished correctly and seems not to have encountered errors.
I'm using OpenPublish3-alpha3.zip (there isn't even an /admin/ dir in the install it seems... is that normal? Their documentations jumps from 'how to install' directly to the 'administer' section... so I don't even know if there is an admin section
PS: building this for Antwerp-region ;)