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Right. Sorry about the delay in getting back to this series of posts. You might remember that in part two, I talked at length about the wonders of CCK. The one thing I wanted to pick up on in this post (to round of the CCK discussion) [...]
If I had to pick the single most useful module out of that whole list, it would be an easy choice: CCK. It’s a super-powerful module that allows you to define content types across your site and create custom fields for those content types.
So, say you want to create subject guides on your drupal-powered site. [...]
If you want the basics on Drupal, you could do no better than to spend some time combing through the project’s website. Actually, scratch that, the one thing you could do better than combing through the website would be to grab the software, install it, and mess around with it for a bit. It’s easy [...]
If you or your library is considering installed blog software, you might want to take a look at Blog Software Smackdown: The Big 3 Reviewed by Vinnie Garcia. It’s a good, comprehensive article, complete with a discussion of features, possible pitfalls, and licensing (no surprise that the big 3 are Movable Type, WordPress, and Textpattern).
Here’s something I should have mentioned in the talk I gave today (but completely forgot to): WordPress.com, the free, hosted, WordPress alternative to BlogSpot (that, as of Monday, is no longer invitee-only). I created a test blog on it yesterday; the process was simple, streamlined, and stress-free. Particularly because it hasn’t [yet] been [...]
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