A resource for those creating sites on the SWNI server
This is a resource for SWNI committee and neighborhood association web masters. It is a place to post questions and tips about creating your community website, here on the SWNI server, using our CMS (Content Management System).
If you subscribe to this group, you will receive (low volume) eMail announcements about updates and new features of our CMS, as well as gain access to a private area of the website which you can use to prototype new pages or books.
We have also set up a mailing list so Community Webmasters may carry on peer level discussions about issues related to maintaining websites here on the SWNI server and using our CMS. Subscription to the mailing list is completely independent of subscription to this group, so for maximum benefit, you may want to subscribe to both.
Drupal Books
Here are some books and online guides about Drupal, the CMS powering our website.
Online Resources
Drupal handbooks – “A reference for those interested in Drupal whether novice or experienced, users or developers”
Book: structured document publishing – “A book is a set of [web] pages tied together in sequence, perhaps with chapters, sections, subsections, and so on”
Best practices – “If you are going to invest the time to set up a CMS, then you should protect your investment by following some simple best practices”
Books
[Note: No endorsement of these titles is intended; they are listed merely for reference. Please seek reviews before purchasing.]
Drupal for Education and E-Learning – “Covers Drupal 6. Describes how to build a community site to support teaching and learning. Designed for people new to Drupal. Guides you through configuring contributed modules and themes, including CCK, Views, and Organic Groups. The book also covers site maintenance, upgrades, and backups.”
Using Drupal – “A practical, hands-on way how to combine over thirty of Drupal’s modules to build websites…. You can also think of it as a field guide to CCK and Views, since almost all chapters build on those base modules”
Drupal Basics – The basics of how to login and how to post a simple piece of content to the site using Drupal
How to Create Content in Drupal – The basics; some differences from our site; created for the Virtual Research Environment at the University of Prince Edward Island
Free Videos From Do It With Drupal – DrupalCon session videos (circa 2008); titles include: Basecamp Cloned In Drupal (Project Management), Intro to Organic Groups, Open Web and DiSo (Distributed Social Networking)
Implementing Drupal – A Google Tech Talk video, filmed October, 8 2007. Geoff Butterfield, Senior Technical Producer at The George Lucas Educational Foundation, and Angie Byron of Lullabot, talk aboout Drupal development and site implementation
Plans for Drupal 7 – FOSDEM 2008. Dries Buytaert talks about the plans for Drupal 7.
How can one create Upcoming/Past Events pages/links?
I'm wanting to create an Upcoming Bridlemile Events page OR more accurately a link that will generate such a page...
Using the Calendar on the main page I've discovered that the link http://swni.org/event/2007/02/08/list/all/8 will do very close to what I want, but it will only work for Feb this year...
How or can I generalize this link so that it:
• shows all future Bridlemile events for the current month, not just the remaining events for Feb?
• shows all future Bridlemile events for the current year?
• shows a list of a particular (2006, 2005, etc) past years events?
I've tried using the Category Browser, but it doesn't display matches in chronological order, and it appears that it can only match "Topics" not create a list of consisting of just "Events".