Drupal
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9/17/2008 in Drupal by micah: Old school web design meant including a page full of links to other websites. As older sites are transitioned into current practice, many site owners expect this trend to continue. And in some ways it has, most commonly as a block containing a blogroll of other sites. This method can provide both...
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9/17/2008 in Drupal by micah: Note: I've updated this tutorial for Drupal 6 in this post on the Geeks and God website.
This example "mysite" module demonstrates hook_form_alter. There is a lot of good info out there about hook_form_alter, but I found very few examples that put all of the pieces of custom module creation...
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9/2/2008 in Drupal by micah: There are a lot of other backup scripts for Drupal on the web, but I promised somebody I'd post mine in response to this week's episode of the Geeks and God podcast. There are variations based on how the different servers are set up, but here's a basic summary of how I do it.
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7/19/2008 in Drupal by micah: Matt Farina recently posted a question on FriendFeed about increasing adoption of Drupal among churches.
I'm wondering how we can make Drupal easier for churches to adopt. Drupal for Churches distribution? Documentation targeted at churches? Thoughts?
I think four factors are that churches are...
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5/7/2008 in Drupal by micah: I just posted a video over on the HFCC Help Desk Web Site that describes the Drupal-powered web site that we use to manage the college's Student and Financial Management System, lovingly dubbed "HANK" or HFCC's Automated Network of Knowledge. (Yeah, it's weak. Somebody actually suggested an...
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4/23/2008 in Drupal by micah: I suppose most readers think that I've abandoned not only this series, but this entire blog. Fear not. The fact is that I've been pondering this last topic for quite some time, and still don't have a really good answer for how to create a front page on a Drupal site.
And maybe that's okay for this...
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2/19/2008 in Drupal by micah: As we start talking about theming sites, I have to say that I haven't been a terribly big fan of the default Garland theme. Part of this may be the simple fact that using the default theme for any system puts the user at risk of building a site that looks like everyone else's site. In the last...
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2/15/2008 in Drupal by micah: Drupal 6 was officially released this week! When I started my current Drupal installation series, I said that Drupal 5 would be around for a while, and I wouldn't jump to Drupal 6 right away. To be fair, I haven't tried out Drupal 6 at all yet. It looks like a very exciting release, and there are...
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2/10/2008 in Drupal by micah: In my last post, we took a whirlwind tour through Drupal's core modules. Now we'll take a look at some of the contributed modules that you might want to use.
Many contributed modules were created by the same people who maintain Drupal core, but others are not well maintained or stable. I've learned...
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2/9/2008 in Drupal by micah: Now that we've discussed using PuTTY to remotely configure your Ubuntu server, let's pick up where we left off with our web site. Of course, I am writing this as a "Drupal for the impatient" series, so you may have already gone off and explored some of your site's menus and maybe even posted some...
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