The last day of summer is gone so the fun of goofing off in the summer programming pool is nearly over. It is time to make a programming choice and head into the fall serious about web development work. Will I throw everything into programming websites using Drupal or WordPress; or will I go back [...]
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First words on Drupal 7
Posted by David Compton on August 30th, 2010
OK – so this week I thought it was time to take a look at the new Drupal 7 – alpha 6 version on my test server. First for the good news. It installed very simply using the old procedures I was used to. You still have to set the settings files the same old [...]
Tags: Welcome to the Drupal ‘Hotel California’
Posted by David Compton on July 21st, 2010
You can update Drupal 6 and the contributed modules, but you are never finished. Just like the song version by the Eagles, the next time you check status, there will be a version or contributed module that is already in need of an update. If the site uses a large number of contributed modules, the [...]
Website costs are relative
Posted by David Compton on June 27th, 2010
Website costs are based on the type of site and the needed applications.
A Drupal text editor, for crying out loud
Posted by David Compton on May 26th, 2010
You will regret the day you decided your Drupal 6 should have a text editor. Just imagine, a major Content Management System without an editor. I joke right. No, Drupal 6 does not have a simple editor as part of its system. If you want to see a text editor as part of the basic [...]
Need photo albums in Drupal 6
Posted by David Compton on April 1st, 2010
It took me forever to find this album photos module, and I want to help others find this great Drupal module. The name may be backwards, but If you need photo albums in your Drupal 6 site – this is the module – http://drupal.org/project/photos Albums photo has solid album features to include: *comment on images [...]
Keeping the “F” in FCKeditor might be best
Posted by David Compton on March 15th, 2010
If you have installed FCKeditor as your Drupal 6 editor, you have noticed that the editor is no longer supported and generates RED on your status update page. FCKeditor has been replaced by CKeditor. FCKeditor paired with imagebrowser gives one not only a text editor but an upload system for photograph and images to be [...]
Drupal 6 video options perplexing
Posted by David Compton on March 2nd, 2010
Video on a website never seems to be easy. There are so many formats, so many options and so many requirements for upload, encoding and displaying. It makes it apparent that the Drupal leadership vision on how video technology would be added to Drupal, so a kind of free-for-all resulted. In Drupal 6, the options and [...]
WordPress is Impressive
Posted by David Compton on February 15th, 2010
WordPress is certainly a polished Content Management System and application. One cannot help but be impressed when one goes to update to a newer version. Since I had automatically installed the application on Webmasters servers using their script, I had version 2.7 initially installed. With just a click of the link to update and a [...]
Evaluating WordPress & Drupal for Web sites.
Posted by David Compton on February 3rd, 2010
A practical look at two impressive Web systems for Content Management, Drupal and Wordpress and the strengths of each.
