Asbury Theological Seminary – Episode #164
Site Scores:
| Site | Visual | Information | Code | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asbury Theological Seminary | 92 | 87 | 70 | (249/300) 83% B |
Today’s Tip:
If you are going to do something different make sure it is useful. Asbury tried a different css technique to display their menu which attached it to the top of the page as the user scrolled down. They knew that the only thing important at the top of the page is the menu. Why not make it always visible so the user doesn’t have to scroll all the way back up. I think they way they did it was elegant and unobtrusive.
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May 4th, 2010 at 9:37 am
Nick – It looks like this site is using Drupal as a CMS – good choice in my opinion! Drupal by default uses a reductive process with CSS classes rather than an additive process. It throws a lot of classes all over the place to allow you to target very specific areas for styling. It can get a little silly at times but allows for some very specific styling. You can reduce the CSS classes if you wish through the template.php file in the theme but it can get tedious to do so. Drupal does have some very aggressive caching which helps deal with all that code in there.
It also looks like they have relaunched their website since you reviewed it – also on Drupal. A very slick front page with an interesting slider – worth looking at again!