2012-07-17 Use the best resources for the applied process.

Link to Acquia Video update in 2015

Original Quote: “Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a highly scalable cloud-computing platform with high availability and reliability, and the flexibility to enable customers to build a wide range of applications. In order to provide end-to-end security and end-to-end privacy, AWS builds services in accordance with security best practices, provides appropriate security features in those services, and documents how to use those features. Join this webinar to understand how Acquia [Drupal] and AWS create a shared responsibility model that allow organizations to run secure environment in the cloud.”

We need to be able to use the best resources for the applied process.  That means links that reroute according to the users needs.  This is another possible supporting platform that we have not yet investigated.

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

2012-06-19 Menus In Drupal

[links no longer available]
Drop-down-menus-drupal-gardens-how-style-every-little-pixel&nbs p;was reviewed after watching Menu Links and Drop Down menus videos in Help/Videos.  Since the menus default to alphabetically, using Date/time format on title(s) for right order. Note: Articles default to “HOME” navigation for return, even though available through CONTENT header link. Add to do list (article), “sticky” to home.

“The drop down styling currently only applies to menus in the navigation region of the themes. This region contains the main menu by default. Any of the Drupal 7 system menus or even a custom menu will present as a drop down if it is placed in the navigation region and has sub menu items.” — Jesse Beach


[links no longer available] Remove-title-and-read-more-front-page  includes recommendations for getting rid of “read more”.

CSS under Appearance > Advanced:

.front #content-area h2,
.front #content .node-readmore,
.breadcrumb {
display: none;
}

Note: Changed Facebook username today.  See notebook. Added website to inventory database.

Webform … lets you create forms and questionnaires without having to use HTML code …. Choose Create content-Webform [and f]ill in a Title for your form. Enter text in the Confirmation message or redirect URL box. Scroll down to Webform mail settings to specify an e-mail where the results of the form submission will be mailed. [See TIP below] Click Save. Add a text box by typing a name for the field (for example, Last Name). Choose Textfield for type. Click the Add button. Add a drop-down box by typing a name for the field (for example, favorite Color). Choose Select for Type. Click Add. Enter your choices, one per line, in the Options text box (for example, Red, Blue Green). Click Submit. Click Publish to create your form. To view your new form, click on the View tab. You still need to make your form visible to people visiting your site. …. Change the settings under the Menu setting. Select the menu where you want your form to appear, give it a title, and click Save. TIP: You don’t have to specify an e-mail here to get the results…. Choose Administer-Content management-Webforms. Click on the edit link next to the form you are interested in. … [C]lick the Results tab …. [and c]lick on one [user] to see the answers .” —

https://www.amazon.com/Drupal-Dummies/dp/B004L8ZYUS/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339254624&sr=1-8

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.”–

https://www.amazon.com/Drupal-Dummies/dp/B004L8ZYUS/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339254624&sr=1-8

2012-06-10 Using Galleries

Drupal (book) additions up to Chapter 6, pg. 97.  Added story to gallery (Drupal gardens).  Imported picture to media library and returned/deleted one picture/sample).  Not working right?  Skipped ahead to Gallery chapter in book.  Ah, ha.  On main page, gallery shows on one picture.  Cannot tell if other pictures are in gallery unless you go to it.  To get multiple pics on main page, use separate Gallery for each? [Set up column configuration.]

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.

2012-05-29 First Drupal Sites

3D Butterfly Tatoo

Two new web sites started on basic (free), learning by doing, though lynda.com has tutorials. (cost) [2018] use skillshare.com  The rotating banner was difficult to work with until understood that the graphic needs to have white space at full page width in order to show text properly.  While I like the rotating banner, it can be distracting.  Used PowerPoint to bevel pictures with reflective bottom.  Added copyright text statement and then used Paint on .jpg to extract the banner wide enough with added white space.  Adjust pictures to same height, let picture width of original jpg default to correct aspect ratio.  Note: the tatoo has absolutely nothing to do with this, I just thought it was cool.