{"id":672,"date":"2017-02-10T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darrenlambert.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2018-01-17T14:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:42:25","slug":"rebuild-of-campervanlife-com-day-4-pre-import-checks-and-theme-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenlambert.com\/rebuild-of-campervanlife-com-day-4-pre-import-checks-and-theme-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuild of CampervanLife.com – day 4 – Pre-import checks and theme selection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the first post in a multi-part series where I document the rebuilding and promotion of an existing website. Find out more<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\n

Pre-import<\/h2>\n

The pre-import went pretty well. \u00a0I had to add author and comments to\u00a0several of the post types to preserve the data from the Drupal site. \u00a0All of the posts and comments imported straight into the new site.<\/p>\n

There are a few broken posts types, such as the old photo gallery, and extra fields for member profiles. \u00a0I’ve established that I can get to this data in the old Drupal database, and will fix that when I add those features to the website.<\/p>\n

Themes<\/h2>\n

Hmm, now I have to select a theme. \u00a0There’s a lot to consider.<\/p>\n

Let’s run through some popular features, and see how I feel about them (roughly top to bottom):<\/p>\n

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  • Header –\u00a0Important to have an\u00a0advertising banner in the header. \u00a0A sticky header would also be good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    First, let’s look at the logo, as this will help to\u00a0give context to the design<\/p>\n

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    Campervan Life logo, in blue<\/p><\/div>\n

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    I’ll run through the options<\/p>\n

    AlleycatThemes<\/h4>\n

    The premium theme company that I ran. \u00a0Surely I would\u00a0dog-food my own themes? \u00a0Nope. \u00a0Those themes were amazing at building pages, brochure websites. \u00a0They had lots of options, and custom page builder (Visual Composer) components. \u00a0There was a lot of code, much of which needed re-writing. \u00a0Too bloated.<\/p>\n

    Something from ThemeForest – Nope. \u00a0Too bloated. \u00a0I am sure there are some great themes on ThemeForest, but I just don’t have the confidence to use one.<\/p>\n

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