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Site configuration experiment

Wed, 2005-09-21 23:09 — sepeck

I've been on [http://Drupal.org|drupal.org] for a while now helping out in the forums and writing a few handbook pages and such (it's how I payback the community that is providing me with the web stuff that saves me time for free). I realized that we still run into the 'Now what' problem when new people first install Drupal.

I think we could use some configuration guides for new folks and have been trying to sit down and outline some. Of course, 'real life' keeps stepping all over my free time.

I also realized that I almost never post forum topics. So, it's time for an experiment. [http://drupal.org/node/31896|A challenge for site configuration] ideas.

Planet Drupal went live :Hello World

Tue, 2005-09-13 23:56 — sepeck

An interesting side effect was the percentage of FireFox vs IE6 browser agents that hit the site. FireFox is going up and now matches IE6.

Good thing I had spent the weekend making the site a bit nicer looking. Main base theme template is pretty much done, css needs another 25% more work with positioning and font size, color and links.

Not that box_cleanslate isn't OK, it's just on a lot of sites. The goal is to get the rest of the css figured out, then work up a few different color schemes and add some pretty graphics and such and contribute the basics (minus my sites look and feel). I don't fancy dozens of sites that look 'just like mine'.

finally figured out this phpTemplate stuff

Thu, 2005-09-08 18:21 — sepeck

In any case, here is my preliminary page.tpl.php. It outputs all DIV statements. Next up is a node.tpl.php. Well, actually it's figuring out how to do decent and flexible css. I see why there arn't more theme's. I need to figure out how to write up what I did and how so it makes sense to the non-coders.

The plan is to get some css stuff up, and get the theme in CVS. Then update it for Drupal 4.7 so when it is released there are several more themes ready for it.

I am considering adding in a few more DIV groupings to provide different ways to use it. ALA cssZenGarden.

Configure your site and 4.7

Thu, 2005-09-01 22:18 — sepeck

I have been busy lately and had not had time to work on some of the articles/docs for the Drupal handbook. Then after I was about to answer a common question yet again, it occurred to me that I could answer it inthe handbook and then link to it. Thus was born the Configure Your Site section of the Best Practices section of the handbook.

I think I will try to continue adding bits and pices to it over time and that may get more content there sooner than later. Of course, some of this will be thrown into edit mode as it looks like 4.7 is moving some stuff around.

Upgrade a Drupal site

Mon, 2005-07-11 21:46 — sepeck

This was the base outline of an article I added to the Drupal Best practices hadnbook.

Some quick notes on upgrading your Drupal site.

  1. Read the Best Practices and don't do it on your live site.
  2. Make sure that all the contrib modules you are using have an update path or you are willing to upgrade them yourself or abandon them.
  3. Create a new database and restore your live site to it, files and all.
  4. Disable all contrib modules.
  5. Set your site to the default theme Blue Marine.

    6. Read the updgrade portion of the install.txt

Install Drupal on Window 2003

Tue, 2005-06-21 01:21 — sepeck

It's time to update my Windows Drupal install instructions. Here is a start, that needs some continuation.

Start of instructions on how to install Drupal on Windows 2003 IIS 6.0
I dislike installing server applications on the OS partition, but for purposes of this article I will use the c: drive While focused on Windows and IIS6, with a few minor exceptions, this article will work on a Windows XP Proffesional workstation as well

Requirements
Windows 2003 sp1 installed
IIS installed and working
SMTP service (IIS SMTP service is not available on Windows XP Home edition. You can use any number of mail servers. At the time of this writing I am using hMailServer, the configuration of which is outside the scope of this article)

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