Marla Duncan Realtor Website

Marladuncanrealtor.com was a very successful job and I think really showed in my opinion how effecient we (Lynxmark) have gotten in building websites. First of all we used a new designer Matt who did a great job. Second we were able to knock out phase I in 1 weekend. Later we added more theming to a couple of the back pages include the MLS search pages and I think the about page and even that only took a couple more additional days. The challenges with this site were a) some of the layouts, particularly the homepage which has stuff all over the place. to this day forms give me the most trouble. You see how all the fields are positioned in different places. With different font sizes it's difficult to make those look good when the font increases but I think I did a pretty good job. Any kind of layout like that is going to have some difficulty with larger fonts but what you don't want is stuff to go nuts and the layout to get broken. The way I do layouts is I really try to do as few images as possible and do as much with the drupal generated html as possible. The more I can do through straight CSS, the better. After that the more I can do within the drupal theme, the better. And if need be I can do custom modules or the occasional module "modification" but I really don't like that bc then you create a maintenance problem - and who wants that? Another challenge was making a few enhancements to our MLS feed. Honestly if I could do it all over again from scratch I would do the backend database differently but of course I suppose every developer would say that after the fact. I made the drupal module interact with a web service (using the Code Igniter framework) instead of having most of the logic within drupal. I did this bc I got tired of having to rewrite the drupal module with each new version of drupal that came out. So this way the actual drupal module is pretty lean and the web service allows us to use the logic in any CMS, language or framework. Overall nice job done by all and I'm proud to have it in our portfolio.
