Wedding and Portrait website

[Russ]

Here is a link to a photographer friend of mine wedding and portraits website, which has recently gone live. It was mostly created with CMSMS.

www.weddingsandportraitphotography.co.uk

Russ

[Dr.CSS]

VERY Nice, profeskinal lookin...

Mostly CMSMS? what else did you use?...

[Russ]

Hi Mark, many thanks for your kind comments. What I meant by mostly CMSMS was that it is based on CMSMS, but using ordinary style sheets and a custom style sheet switcher, some custom plug-ins and modules made specifically for the client. Sadly, most of the custom stuff can't be seen until you are a client and have a login : (

I may have a look at trying to generalise some of the custom stuff to put back into CMSMS. One which might work for general release, is being able to buy images in a variety of formats (sizes/types) from a photo album gallery (Album Module), via PayPal, using the PayPal cart feature and some templates and JavaScript... when I get some time This summer is already scheduled to be a 'Summer of C', or rather Objective -C and Cocoa, to brush up on my Mac programming skills with my son.

Russ

[designhut]

It's really nice and clean, simple to navigate, etc. Style chooser is very nice. I like what you've done with the Prev, Top and Next links too, simple yet very effective.

The ONLY thing I can find to be constructively critical of is the use of apostrophes, especially in CD's and FAQ's, just a little bugbear of mine!

Thanks for sharing.

[Russ]

Hi designhut, many thanks for your kind comments, I'll pass them onto the owner. A big  on the FAQ's - now FAQ, but I couldn't find any 'CD's' ? Maybe I've been staring at this site too long but thank you very much for your help.

Russ

[designhut]

Hi Russ,

CD's is in the quote by Chelsea on the home page.

There's also a space before the close bracket after '2008' on the 'last updated' date. Apart from that, I think it's perfection.

Sorry to be so pedantic...

Also, I'm with Mark about the 'mostly' (for XHTML and CSS, not CMSMS?), I'm getting 'valid' on your XHTML 1.0 so I'd personally just leave it at "Built with XHTML 1.0 Strict."

And your metaname keywords need some work?

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<meta name="keywords" content="Andre Ainsworth Weddings and Portrait Photography,Search" />

[Russ]

Thanks designhut, the spaces have gone and "CD's" has been changed to "another CD".

I kind of like 'mostly vaild' which is true, some pages don't validate. For example the login page can never validate (FEUser Login) because of a bug in CMSMS core which causes the hidden fields to come before or after the opening/closing fieldset. I've logged a bug report for it, but it was not fixed in 1.3... maybe 1.4?

As for the keyword, you are right, I use some tags in the template to populate this. I used to worry about keywords a lot for SEO, but it seems less important to search engines these days and at least the tags are quick and easy.

It would be nice to have a tag to parse all the page headings and perhaps pick put the most popular words, but I guess this would really have to be in the core CMS when saving the pages - rather than in a template, as it would take too long. If you have any other ideas I'd love to hear them.

Thank you again, it really is appreciated

Russ

[3dcandy]

I would like the style switcher if possible...

[Dr.CSS]

Hey Russ

I just thought of something about keywords, couldn't you use the tag cloud to populate them, iirc it goes thru pages and finds the most used words or something, no?

[Russ]

Sorry about the extreme delay in replying, just a bit busy doing some other stuff, anyway:

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3dcandy
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I would like the style switcher if possible...

Hi 3dcandy, there is a CMS style switcher available for swapping themes, I'm sure mine would not be much good as I don't use the normal CMS way of doing CSS.

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Hey Russ
I just thought of something about keywords, couldn't you use the tag cloud to populate them, iirc it goes thru pages and finds the most used words or something, no?

Hi mark, I think the tagcloud idea is quite a good one, it perhaps depends on when it gets processed? Have you tried it? I think picking out the main words in the titles of the page would be quite good and perhaps enough?

Anyway, I've done a bit of smarty tagging and come up with another way of doing it on a different site I was creating for a charity. It uses some simple capture smarty stuff to pull in and amend the {title} from news or event (calendar) and other modules, but can also just uses the normal {title} when necessary. I've also used the {description} and {sitename} tags. Oh and I've added in the Dublin Core stuff, I'm not sure if this is helpful though?

See what you think, it is by no means perfect, but it works quite well on news and event item pages.

http://www.friendsofthejohnrylands.org

Come to think of it I'd better create a new "Show Off" post for this site... I'm off to do that now

Russ

[3dcandy]

Well I was gonna rewrite the css as a single file anyway - but shall have a look for the cmsms style switcher.
Cheers anyway!

[Russ]

3dCandy these links may prove useful

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,23033.new/topicseen.html

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/build_your_own_php_style_sheet_switcher/

http://contrastsweb.com/switcher/

Hope this helps,

Russ

[3dcandy]

cheers - that's along the lines of what I'm trying to achieve.
next up, php browser sdniffing to deliver custom stylesheets...woohooo

[3dcandy]

never mind the browser sniffing, jquery has a plugin. reckon I will use that instead!