CMS
New method for adding images
October 16, 2009 - 11:53pm — David DunningOver in the sandbox, I've set up a new method for adding images to posts. It's not working with all the features it should have right now, but the basic functions do work. For right now, it will only place an image below the post. Just go to sb6.swni.org, it should be there on the home page at present. Check it out!
Rich text editor behavior
October 9, 2009 - 5:37pm — David DunningI'd like to get your opinions regarding the behavior of the rich text editor. As it is configured now, if you click on the (Open rich text editor) link when composing a post, a huge popup appears, completely covering your entire page. This huge size bears no relation at all to how your post will appear when you are done. I personally hate this behavior and find it very counter-intuitive.
Theme tryouts
October 9, 2009 - 5:15pm — David DunningThemes are sets of templates and stylesheets that determine the entire look of a Drupal website (the term is also used with other systems).
Drupal Group PDX
Drupal Group PDX meetings take place every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm in the
OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209.
No need to RSVP, the meetings are open to all.
We're also on IRC in #drupal-pdx on freenode.net
http://groups.drupal.org/portland-oregon
Location
Web Page Cheat Sheet: Creating and maintaining web pages
Important Note: This document is a quick reference guide only. It assumes you have already read the “Creating Web Pages” section of the FAQs.
Table of Contents:
Drupal 6 Upgrade Status (& Roadmap)
Status as of 7-May-2009:
- The live site is now running Drupal 6 (using Apache 2 & PHP 5)
- Calendar is functional; still needs some refinement
- Permissions in Drupal 6 are different; many are not yet set properly; you may not be able to edit some of your pages, and other quirks
- The WYSIWYG editor is only partially activated, but has basic functionality
- Your graphics should be displaying correctly. If not, see next item, and ensure you are not using the [Inline] tag, as per this page.
- Changed file upload method from private to public; should result in faster performance,
but this breaks some URI’s: those containing plus sign (+) as placeholders for spaces. Also, some URI’s contain garbage in them (shown in bold), e.g. http://swni.org/CMS-Uploads//Library/WebServer/CMS-Uploads/filename. It should really be: /CMS-Uploads/filename. I will try to fix both problems en mass with a perl script, but you may also fix them manually if you like. - All absolute links (to SWNI site) should have been converted to relative links
- The front page now displays, by default, only stories created or updated in the last 60 days. A filter is exposed allowing the visitor to change the timeframe. I haven’t figured out how to move the filter to the bottom of the page yet.
- Minutes content type now operational
Linking to Another Web Page
To add a link to another web page, use the HTML “A” element. This element has an opening tag (<a>), content, and a closing tag(</a>), like this:
<a href="URI">link text</a>
Drupal Books
Here are some books and online guides about Drupal, the CMS powering our website.
Attaching Files for Download
This page describes how to attach files for download.
Drupal Videos
General Info
- Introduction to Drupal
- 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
- Drupal Overview
- Drupal Basics - Creating an Event – Adding items to the calendar
- 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)
- What is Drupal? – Dries Buytaert talks about Drupal
Community Webmaster Alert: Your Images Need Updating
May 11, 2008 - 11:34pm — Michael KisorAnyone who has created web pages which display graphics using SWNI’s Drupal content management system (CMS) will want to know about an impending change which will affect your pages. We are about to upgrade Drupal, but due to compatibility problems, we are dropping the [Inline] module, which we previously used for displaying graphics on web pages.
SWNI Server Management Team meeting
November 5, 2007 - 8:35pm — Michael KisorServer Management Team Meeting
August 21, 2007 - 1:08am — Michael KisorLocation
Description:
Server Management Team meeting
CMS Bug Reports
This page is to report bugs, request features, ask about anomalous CMS behavior, etc. This page is intended primarily for webmastering issues. It may also be used to address Mailman issues (i.e. mail list).
To report a bug or ask a question on a new topic (i.e. not listed below), please add a child-page below. If the topic already exists, but you have additional questions, new information, etc., then please add a comment to the existing page.
Would you like more web-master meetings, to learn more about SWNI/DRUPAL and to exchange ideas with other websters?
OSCON 2006
May 7, 2006 - 4:39pm — Michael KisorDescription:
OSCON Promo blurb: “The O'Reilly Open Source Convention, happening July 24-28, 2006 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, is where early adopters, coders, expert users, sys admins, entrepreneurs, and business people working in free and open source software gather to share ideas, discover code, and find solutions. Come to OSCON to debate, make deals, and connect face to face with thousands of friends, colleagues, and fellow geeks in the open source—and soon-to-be open source—community.”
Free for “Exhibits only”
What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication), XML and Atom feeds – known generically as web feeds – are useful for keeping abreast of web sites which update often. When you subscribe to a web feed, you see an abbreviated list of articles, much like a table of contents for a magazine. Web feeds contain a title, a “teaser” showing a little of its content, and a link to view the whole article. This is a convenient and time-saving way of scanning new content on a web site. You can quickly find those pages of interest without wasting time loading the “stinkers.”
