[support] Drupal7 or CodeIgniter fro new website?

[steeph]

I would either use CSS to correct this, or add a computed field ( 
http://drupal.org/project/computed_field) with city, state and zip in 
one line and hide the original fields.


On 02/25/2012 05:39 PM, Afan Pasalic wrote:
> This is what bother me a most.
> To test, I installed D7 on my local machine and created content type
> "Place". Added image field (thumbnail), 5 text fields (Address, City,
> State, Zip, Phone).
> Added a node and got, for Address part:
> Address:
> 123 Main St.
> City:
> Drupal Town
> State:
> DS
> Zip:
> 12345
> Phone:
> 123-456-7890
>
> Looks ugly. I removed labels but Address label on the top and put Phone
> label inline. I got:
> Address:
> 123 Main St.
> Drupal Town
> DS
> 12345
> Phone: 123-456-7890
>
> Better, but still ugly.
> For a last two hours I was trying to google ho to fix this and get city,
> state and zip in one line - no luck.
>
> The space between Thumbnail and Address is to small - how to make it
> bigger.  I was google-ing too. Again no luck.
>
> To solve this I believe simple, kind of basic, problem, I need Forum and
> this list, I have to wait couple hours, maybe day or two. What can I
> expect when it comes to something "larger"?
>
> If I have to "correct" this in CodeIgniter, it's matter of minutes.
>
> But, are these Drupal "baby steps" something I HAVE TO go through as a
> beginner, as everybody else? Or am I taking wrong approach?
>
> I'm not trying to say or prove anything. I'm just asking you for your
> opinion and just trying to make decision what to use for my next website.
>
> Sorry for being such a cry-baby
> :-)
>
>
> On 2/24/2012 11:20 AM, Afan Pasalic wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I plan to build website about Rotue 66. And. according to my flow-
>> chart, it will be a little bit more then basic site. Basic plot: on
>> home page you will have an image (US map, or 8 Route 66 states map)
>> with links to select a state.
>> Once you select a state you will have
>> 	a) list of cities (places) within the state you selected in the order
>> they appear on the Route 66 (E.g. Kansas: Galena, Riverton, Baxter
>> Springs. The order is from Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA)
>> 	b) Google map with needles pointed to the cities within the state
>> To see Places, you have to select a city from the list or the map.
>> Once a city is selected a page should show
>> 	a) list of Places in the city in the order they appear on the R66
>> (Cicero, IL: Cindy Lyn Motel, Henry;s Drive Inn, Robin Hood Muffler
>> Shop, Bunyon's Hot Dogs)
>> 	b) Google map with needles in Places.
>> Clicking on the Place link on the list or clicking on the needle on
>> the map, you will get to the Place page with more info about the
>> Place: Name (title), History (body), Thumbnail, Location (geo-
>> coordinates), Link to Galery/Photo album, Address. City, State. Zip
>> info, etc.
>>
>> It would be great to have multi-level menu "Places" on Main Manu where
>> first level are States, second level Cities within the State you
>> rolled-over. And, of course, States (first level) is clickable too and
>> will show you page with cities in selected State (List/Google map)
>>
>> I have two options to do this:
>> a) using CodeIgniter and have mach more control over it (already know
>> how to do that but it's a lot of coding involved)
>> b) using Drupal7. It's probably much faster and safer but how much
>> time I need to build something like this as a newbie with limited
>> experience building very simple websites with Drupal 6 and 7 (static
>> pages, contact form, forum, blog, and some work using View to show
>> News on front page, block and News page)
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks a lot for any help.
>>
>> Afan
>>

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