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on drupal, part three

[Start here. Then go here. Then come back here.]
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) [...]


want more drupal?

If your answer is “yes”, you’re going to want to attend the drupal4lib camp in February! It’s conveniently scheduled the day after Code4Lib ends, and is generously being hosted by Darien Library which, I hear, is a quick train-ride away from Providence. Props to Karen Coombs for taking an idea we came up with in [...]


on drupal, part two

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. [...]


on drupal, part one

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 [...]


IL2008: full of win

Internet Librarian was indeed full of win. My Academic Library 2.0 mates and I did our pre-conference again, this time for a cozy group of very engaged participants. I know it’s bad conference economics when the number of participants just doubles the number of speakers, but seriously, it makes for a very interesting day of [...]