As you can see here, I have started a pig collection. The best workflow, so far, has been to google images, drag them all into a special folder - then move that whole folder to the import folder in drupal. Then I just do 'import images' which just uses the default image content type. Those can all be tagged to the project & keywords & renamed at the time of import.
Really, that's the easiest so far.
Also, I added tagadelic to preview the projects & keywords. So far, it's a pretty simple drupal installation, and very close to having flickr locally.
Today was a very productive sick day, though I must admit that after today I am not very pleased with data syncing & media handling in Drupal.
My photo morgue is now usable, locally. I decided that my local copy will be the master copy...and I will table any sort of sharing until I can solve some other large obstacles.
I was able to build the entire project out of various modules, with no coding - just configuration. I looked very deeply into data syncing, embedded images & lightbox. My ultimate desires for this project are out of reach at the moment.
Some obstacles:
Last night on the train I started setting up the art morgue, and then wound up doing a little more on it last night and then today.
This is what I have done,
Got the following modules - which i will definitely use:
admin (improves user interface)
admin_message (cute message popups)
cck (content data structure)
content taxonomy (pointing to vocabularies as fields -- check the box when setting up field for mirroring terms in node in regular taxonomy structure - so that the taxonomy tools can be used)
context (required by spaces/features/ginkgo theme (from open atrium)
I need a good way to organize the reference images I use for drawing. Usually this is called an 'art morgue' - and if you take art classes they always make you cut up pictures from a magazine. I am going to design one for myself, but in Drupal.
Drupalchix:TwinCities Patch Party! who: twincities drupalchix what: drupal patch party when: (tentatively) August 8, 2009 - Saturday - 10-2 (optional to stay til 4) where: somewhere with internet why: group project to learn how to contribute back to drupal project by 'reviewing patches' to drupal 7 codebase Drupal 7 is in the final weeks of accepting contributions from developers all over the world, many of whom are hoping to get their code into the next r
I love git! It has a monster!gitmonster
What you need
Mac OS X (this works on linux & pc, but i don't have the precise installing instructions for those)
git installer for leopard
bravery. we are doing command line stuff here ladies. don't be fooled, we can do anything.
Jump to the git installing instructions Intended audience: This article is written directly for women web developers who are not currently using version control because the command line aspect of it seems too daunting. This is also for everyone else. However, today I was particularly inspired by this presentation by webchick.
We (myself and courtney miller) finally launched a little dashboard feature for http://nisenet.org We have a lot of content types - and they are grouped in certain sets of types of content types. So, I made a themer-friendly dashboard module. You can see it has lists of links/shortcuts. Also, there are tabs of views made for the users, right now 2 of them -- their content and their comments. THAT uses the tabs module, which rules.
I just looked at the keywords that people used to find the (few) pages on my website that anyone reads -- I find it to be very interesting to see all the different search terms people are using to try to find information about themeing cck. Perhaps there is something we can learn from this. You can see that there's some pages where people stay on my site -- and then even still a whole lot where people are obviously searching, searching - trying to figure out how to theme drupal. keyword visits | pages/visit | avg time on site | % new visits | bounce rate 1. drupal 6 theme cck node 7 1.00 00:00:00 0.00% 100.00% 2. theming cck 5 1.20 00:00:02 60.00% 80.00% 3. drupal 6 cck theming 4 1.25 00:01:25 75.00% 75.00% 4. drupal contemplate screencast 4 1.25 00:00:11 100.00% 75.00%
I hereby solemnly vow to write up my own notes on themeing forms in drupal 6 While I'm not actively themeing forms today...it's gonna happen soon. These are the methods I am going to explore:
I love Drupal. I love that I, as someone who has worked with the web for 10+ years & can satisfactorily program/design/architect, I love that I could do ANYTHING I wanted with it. And I will. I truly believe it is possible. I also love, love, love my drupal-addicted friends, and am trying to convert the rest. I believe in our power as web people. That said, for the past 6-8 months my heart has been scraped against the ground by the little blue troublemaker known as Drupal. Now my heart is leaking sad little drupal drops.
Setting up templates in your theme
(not making & registering themes for modules - that's very different) Theming CCK Input Form Drupal's main theming page More on the basics how to set up/convert d5 themes to d6.
Chach has the great honor of being in the inaugural class of Code for America fellows.
Code for America is a sort of "Peace Corps for Geeks," except that we work with city governments to help make them more open, participatory, transparent & efficient.
She and fellow Karla Macedo have teamed up to orchestrate Iconathons across the nation, a partnership between Code for America and the Noun Project.
http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-eclipse-pdt2.0-on-eclipse3.4-ganymede 1. get eclipse classic (ganymede) http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ 2. unzip and open 3. preserve prev version of eclipse as well as you can (rename eclipse folder to eclipse_3.3) -- move new eclipse folder to applications or wherever you usually store it create a new workspace, or change name of old workspace...we'll move 3.3 projects later -- back up in case folders are different 4. get eclipse updates
