Tag: Drupal for Dummies

2012-06-24 Activity Streaming

[Drupal Gardens is gone.]
https://www.maximumpc.com/article/how-tos/how-_build_site_drupal_gardens

[These links were not verified. Updated 06/09/2016.]

Look at available modules more closely after reviewing Activity Streams: ” … With Activity stream, every time you twitter, post a link on Digg.r receive a Facebook notification, you can view that information on your Drupal site. There are many add-on modules for popular social media sites and services that extend the Activity stream module. Here are a few of them:

  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Qik
  • Identi.ca
  • Blogger
  • Goodreads
  • IMDB

[See] …https://drupal.org/project/activitystream [and] …activitystream_facebook[, etc.] … Browse Administer-Site building-Modules[, … enable … Activity Stream [and] … Save configuration. … Choose Administer-User management-Users[, l]ocate the user [and edit, ]… click the Activity Stream link. … Enter your username for the particular Web site you wish to include in your Activity Stream output and click Save. Your streams will update automatically at intervals, but to make it update immediately so ou can see the new data, you need to run your cron program to make Drupal go out and get your information from the web sites.” –Author: Beighley, Lynn Source: Drupal for Dummies (2010), pg. 273-280

2012-06-12 CAPTCHA

 

“CAPTCHA … is a random question that site visitors are prompted to answer.  Most often, a CAPTCHA is a small graphic image that contains a printed word. … TIP: While using CAPTCHA is a good idea, it doesn’t stop humans from posting spam.  It only prevents automated spamming, programs that locate Drupal sites and root through them looking for places to add spammy comments. I highly recommend you moderate all comments in addition to using the CAPTCHA plugin. … After you have uploaded and activated the module, you can configure where CAPTCHAS appears in your site by choosing Adminster-User Management-Captcha… Technical Stuff: Hacker techniques grow increasingly sophisticated all the time.  Image CAPTCHAS work best when they are a little difficult to read.  Optical character recognition programs, the same algorithms used to allow scanned documents … can easily scan CAPTCHA images and extract the text, so adding a bit of noise or distortion can help foil them.  The Text CAPTCHA tab allows you to create and use your own phrase for visitors to answer rather than the random gibberish it produces.”–

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2012-06-09 Website(s) “Birth” Day

Added links to all current websites to inventory database. Set Google recovery to cell.  Started another chapter(s) in Drupal for Dummies. Provided for gmail user for gallery website only.  Not yet tested web site differences and constraints.  Sent email invite. Picture on adhesive business card ink got wet and smeared.  Need to rethink the magnetic prints.