Drupal Use

How to do graphics in a sidebar not the Drupal way

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Note the title said NOT the Drupal way. That means this is a cautionary tale of how NOT to add changing promotional graphics to your site.

In a local checkout of the repository:

cd themes/example/images/home/
svn add example_graphic_one.gif
svn add example_graphic_two.gif
sudo svn commit -m "new graphics for front and story pages"

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Thu, 2008-07-17 06:41
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Why not WYSIWYG: Style and Markup for Content Management System web sites

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richtext semantic markup CSS WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get BUeditor better than TinyMCE or FCKEditor rte - rich text editor reasons not to use tinymce aside from too complicated drupal jquery rich text editor old editor problems look stupid add / edit text
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The below is the why that goes with this how: Style content in Drupal using standard HTML tags (and have it match your custom site perfectly and meet your styling needs!)

Gus:

Reasons for using semantic tags, with style defined by Cascading Style Sheets, rather than inline as many web rich text editors tend to do their markup:

  • Importance of consistency and not letting people randomly change font size and color.

Anjali's Website & Racing Update: A simple Agaric site in use

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It's great to see a site in use – a classy and professional site for an incredible person – but though built on a budget clearly we can and will make it easier to use for subscriptions and notification purposes:

Hello Everybody -

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Tue, 2008-04-08 12:57
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Add an image to a block

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embed image in text block content sidebar blocks graphic in context attach picture to block box
Description & Info: 

How do we add an image to a custom defined, textual block?

You can change menus here:

Edit the custom block in question, at a URL like:

http://example.com/admin/build/block/configure/block/41

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Wed, 2008-04-02 06:07
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Ask Agaric: Magic copy non-Drupal tab with content to Drupal? No

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What's the easiest way to get content from the IBO to the MCJ website?

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Mon, 2008-03-31 07:48
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Attach a file to a Drupal page or post

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Go to the page:
http://camparrowhead.us/volunteer-applications

Click the edit tab.

Scroll down to File attachments. Click to expand if necessary.

Attach new file, click Browse.

Find the document on your computer and hit OK/Open.

Now click Attach.

Check off which attachments you want listed on the page.

Click Submit.

Done!

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Sat, 2008-03-29 01:53
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Style within content in Drupal: use standard HTML tags

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titles colorful section headers themed topic subjects styled headings
Description & Info: 

Ask Agaric: how to get colorful, styled text within the content I write?

(See also: Why not WYSIWIG.)

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Fri, 2008-03-28 09:57
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Change comment authorname and date in Drupal

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comments name time Authored by Authored on
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In Drupal, you can set the user (author) and date of a comment to something other than yourself and that moment, if you have administer comments permission– just not while posting.

If you click the edit link for the comment after posting, there will be a collapsed "Administration" section where you can change the username and posting timestamp, just like you can for a node.

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Sun, 2008-03-23 07:11
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About Drupal's main RSS feed

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really simple syndication feeds rather symple sindication refreshingly standard sharing
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This post is about the main site feed, found on any Drupal site by adding /rss.xml to the site's main web address. (Drupal can also create all kinds of feeds for taxonomy terms and views.)

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Mon, 2008-03-17 07:38
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Ask Agaric: Upload photos and display them on a page with introduction

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Drupal image module page of pictures photograph display gallery adding photos making a photo-heavy page
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Hi Ben,

I have some things like photos and some audio files and whatnot I could add to the site.

How do I know where something will end up and how it will be listed on the menus? For some reason I haven't figured that out.

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Tue, 2008-02-19 13:17
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