Weekly update #1

[Days spent on website this week: 4]

Some of the things I've been working on this, my first full week on the new website:

• Editing the web visuals, correcting the colours used (which were supplied to us in Pantone colours which don't appear as they should do on-screen).
  
  
• Reading up on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Embarrassingly, this is something I haven't really had to know too much about up until now using the Dreamweaver website (as Dreamweaver does some of the things CSS do without you having to look at it), but it is something any web developer really should learn about.
  
  
• Using CSS to style Drupal to look like our web visuals. As you can see, I've only done this on the background and header, but it already feels like it has our mark on it!
  
  
• Adding the 'Event' content type to Drupal, which means that anyone logged into the website can add a new event to the calendar. I've also added a calendar to the 'News & Dates' section, which automatically displays these events, as well as a section on the Home page that shows the next 5 events.
  
  
• Creating this blog!

Screenshots of the site as it currently looks:


Home page


News & Dates page

Although the calendar doesn't yet look how I want it to, the exciting thing is that it actually works!

If you're interested in what Drupal looks like behind the scenes, here's an example of the 'Views' module, which is used to set the functionality and appearance of various things (for example the calendar), although appearance-wise it only really allows setting what information is shown, and how it's laid out, rather than things like how it's coloured, whether it has rounded-corners, etc. (which needs to be done in CSS):


Drupal - Views module