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What constitutes selecting the right theme for you and your business?

1. Is theme visually appealing? If it just knocks you off your heels in love, go for it! Make sure the header graphic does not take up the entire page above the fold and that content is visible for your viewer.
2. Navigation. Think about how it may work best. Are categories displayed. Do you need drop downs? Is there room to add another navigation if needed on the sidebar? Does it support WordPress 3.0?
3. Theme Options. Altering colors and integrating social media made easy.
4. Widget Ready. Create to Complete’s theme provides three boxes along the top to call out important content like to contact for information for product or service. This content may be edited by the user, so a developer is not needed. This theme also includes an option to have a unique header for each page.
5. Source Files. This is beneficial for the developer. It makes it easy to modify the layout and look of site through Photoshop. Then the developer can take those graphics to add to the website structure.

Note: Create to Complete has it’s own theme and is now available for customization, pricing starts at $500 for the shell, includes one hour of training. Client responsible for loading own content. Added features (social media, etc.) are available for additional in cost for setup and configuration. Our theme is security ready also. To view examples of work done that range in $500-$1500 in pricing, please visit our showcase of websites.

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Attended a seminar last night learning about getting started with Drupal. (1) Themes, and (2) modules are the most important tools you’ll learning when creating a website in Drupal. Zen is the most basic theme that allows you to make simple CSS changes to transform the overall look and feel of the web page. FCKeditor is one of the best modules and is strongly recommended for use on laying out your web pages. Web Form is another module that can be used for creating a contact page. Taxonomy is great for creating a glossary of terms. One of the best features for using Drupal is that it allows the web designer to set up multiple roles limiting where the user can go and update information once the web page is designed. For example, Administer would be a role in which someome could have access only uploading images, but would not allow them to make any other edits. Also, it is important to give permissions on certain folders, which is selected on the server side where FTP is accessed. Command + I on every folder that want to give permissions to. It will give you the Info window and select “Write” is checked on all and 777 is listed in the field. I found this a very informative class.

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