July 16th, 2008
What is it?
A content management system (cms) and a community management system or a blog if you would rater like that. Drupal is what you define it to be, it allows you to pick and choose what you want to do on your site! Which at first can be very confusing, but when you learn how it work it is one of, if not the, strongest site building system. It is almost only your own imagination that sets the limit to what you want out of your site, when using drupal.
What can I use it for?
Basically anything that you can imaging, want to start a community about white wooden fences or some other really weird subject. Just define what the users should be allowed to do, what kinda of content the site will be working with and you are done. Haven’t found something that it can’t really do, as the entire frame of the system is build to be flexible and extended. There is a extremely long list of features that can be done with drupal, just to mention a few:
- Content Management Systems
- Blogs
- Collaborative authoring environments
- Forums
- Peer-to-peer networking
- Newsletters
- Podcasting
- Picture galleries
- File uploads and downloads
How do I get started?
Before you start installing stuff and typing in content, you should consider what purpose your site will have, how should it look and what types of content should it contain? Will you deliver all the content or will the users contribute it? How will the user navigate the content? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: CMS, Drupal, Guides, php
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July 7th, 2008
I have decided that I this summer will make it a goal to recreate, restructure and redesign my personal little site on the web. The main focus on the new site will be a portfolio of the previous projects that I have worked on, information about Drupal and MODx content management sytem systems, both of which is 2 really nice and very unique content management systems and last but not least I will create a few articles about jQuery.
The new design will match the new Wordpress back end in functionality (which is very up to date, in regards to usability and offers a greatly improved work flow with its use of JavaScript).
The Goal of the new design is quite simple, make the content of the site easy accessible, quick to navigate and just look good! One of the key elements of the design will be to guide the eyes of the viewer on to the content and not distract it by noise, which sounds quite easy right? And another thing, keep the colors basic and unobtrusive!
Tags: design, Drupal, jQuery, MODx, site
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February 9th, 2008
This month most links will refer to site that got gaming related material. I will mainly post links to World of Warcraft related sites, most of which I use often when playing around in the game.
www.wowhead.com, is the best place to go when you are looking for help on solving a quest.
www.mmo-champion.com, is one of the best and perhaps also the most trustworthy source of news on world of warcraft, he daily scans the blue posts (posts by the community managers) and summaries them, when they are relevant to the future of the game.
eu.wowarmory.com, for when guild mates aren’t up for running a late night Heroic instance and you have to find some random person for the last spot.
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January 15th, 2008
So new and exciting content are being added to the internet all the time and it is hard to keep track of where you have been, what facinated you and what made you think. So I have decided to create a post with links about everything between the sites on the internet.
Train your eyes to see color, again
Nice reference of what to notice in the world, instead of always seeing the gray side of it all.
Great for a good laugh, wulffmorgenthaler or check out xkcd comics.
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December 1st, 2007
So it is finally that time of the year, the time to be glad about all the goodness in the world! But also the most expensive month of the year, all those long days shopping Christmas gifts for the holiday. One thing I am looking forward to is the danish Christmas calendar series for adults, a parody on an old Christmas calendar for kids called “Jullerup færgeby”, instead it’s called “Yallahrup færgeby“.
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