Help wanted!

[aidansean]

So I'm making a website about the STFC brain drain. Funding cuts lead to physicists fleeing the country in search of research, and obviously that's a bad thing for the UK and for those physicists. So I want a simple website that has a collection of articles, links and profiles of people who are affected

Comments

[racheroo]

Ooooh. Drupal. We do a lot of work in Drupal at my company. Mmmhmmm. Don't they have standard templates or sommat? xxx

[necaris]

Well they do have an official theme repository -- I believe most of those themes are quite liberally licensed, so you could adapt one if you wanted...

[aidansean]

Ah, that was something I was wondering about. First of all, are they easy to adapt? (The defaults aren't as they are a mess of code.) Secondly, what is the licensing like on them? (Zen Garden is very protective, for example.) Hmm, I'll take a look at the default themes and beat one into submission. Shouldn't be too hard.

[one_to_tango]

All I see at the moment is the Drupal log-in page.

As for content, it might be worth your while contacting Mark Lancaster at UCL. During the funding shenanigans he always had a (crappily-formatted but capacious) site full of details, and he might still have more details. It's not been updated it seems since Dec 09, but has useful info, and of course you can email him directly.

It's here http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~markl/pp/

[aidansean]

Yeah, at this point I'm just looking for style advice. I've already got a very good idea what the content is going to be and it'll be complementary to what Mark's providing, rather than a clone of it. But his site will make for some good extra reading.

[one_to_tango]

In that case, I'll shut up. Being colour blind, idosyncratic and no knowledge of web design, I'll just say "left hand down a bit".