Congressional Campaign Site: DebbieHalvorson.com
I'm still kind of knocked out -- been working 24/7 on this one for several weeks. That said...
I'm pleased to announce the availability online of DebbieHalvorson.com:
http://www.DebbieHalvorson.com
Debbie's running for Congress in the 11th CD of Illinois.
I'm using Drupal 5.5, CCK, Views, Views Slideshow, Calendar, ImageCache, Custom Breadcrumbs, Foundation theme, CiviCRM, etc.
Overall, it's incredible how much easier it was doing this site compared to one I did during the last cycle. Instead of using "snippets", I was able to define pretty much everything in Views. My Content Types this time round -- 'Press Release', 'Article from the Media', 'Blog Post', etc. -- take full advantage of CCK. Formerly I used Flexinode.
Another big improvement was using ImageCache. Basically Campaign Staff can now add images to any content type. They can also designate any node as "spotlight" for the 'In Focus' section on the front page.
As far as theming goes, I really didn't have any problems converting my original graphic design to a customized theme using baseline files from the Foundation Theme. I just created "regions" for all the divs and then added them to the template file.
I still have a few tweaks to make. My current challenge is seeing if we can somehow use the (overly complicated) CiviEvents for our Events management. Yuck.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with the results.
LEO
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