Welcome to the completely rebuilt Thrale.com which was relaunched on 15 January 2010. Please tell me what you think, especially if you have any frustrations or difficulties. If you have a comment about a specific article, please click the 'Add new comment' link at the bottom. If the feedback is more general, please comment in our forum.

Blogs

The Anchor and The Castle

Posted Sat, 20/02/2010 - 20:37 by David Thrale

The AnchorThe AnchorFor some time Thrale.com has had an article on a The Castle inn, Bankside. It was not clear about how The Castle related to the present day pub. I have been able to rewrite this to clarify how the two names are related.

I am also delighted to have found a fabulous photo of the newly refurbished pub, which looks great.

Infoboxes

Posted Thu, 18/02/2010 - 23:12 by David Thrale

As a long time admirer of Wikipedia, I sometimes pay them the ultimate compliment of adapting some of their ideas on Thrale.com.

I am pleased to say that I have improved Thrale.com by developing my version of their infoboxes, using Drupal's blocks facility. It took me a little while to get the CSS right, but now I have some infoboxes on the following topics:

Thrale's of Croydon

Posted Sun, 31/01/2010 - 00:04 by David Thrale

Well its almost two years since I have made any significant updates or added any new information to Thrale.com. My time has gone into rebuilding the website based on a database. It has been a success, but it took me an inconceivably long time, with at one time when I lost several months work when I had to start over again from scratch.

Pullquotes or callouts in Drupal

Posted Sun, 10/01/2010 - 21:27 by David Thrale

This is an example of a pull quote or call-out.

I am in the middle of moving Thrale.com from a traditional static HTML/CSS & PHP website to a database driven content management system using the fantastic Drupal.

One of several challenges I am tackling is how to transfer pull quotes (or call-outs) from the static site into Drupal. Inevitably a straight transfer didn't work.

This article explains how I cracked the problem and developed an approach to standardised markup.

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