Drupal
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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2/9/2008 in Drupal by micah: When I started working on what was going to be the fifth installment in this series, I realized that at the end of part two, I'd left you sitting at the console of your shiny new Ubuntu server with no instructions on how to make the jump to the later steps and get you way from that all-to-...
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2/1/2008 in Drupal by micah: In the third part of this series, I left you hanging with some basic Drupal configuration left undone. This will be painfully apparent if you go to your main administration page, where you'll see the lovely pink box alerting you that your site has some problems. Fear not! We're going to take care...
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2/1/2008 in Drupal by micah: In my last post, we finished our basic Ubuntu installation and got our web server ready for Drupal. If you're not installing Drupal on a dedicated server, you can jump into the series here and be fine, but you might have to alter a couple of directory names for this to work out for you.
I'm writing...
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1/30/2008 in Drupal by micah: Here is part two of my quick and not very comprehensive series on installing a Ubuntu Linux server and building a Drupal web site on it. In my previous post, I walked you through a couple of potential bumps in the Ubuntu installation process. By now you've rebooted your brand new server for the...
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