CMS

Community Webmaster Alert: Your Images Need Updating

Anyone who has created web pages which display graphics using SWNI’s Drupal content management system (CMS) will want to know about an impending change which will affect your pages. We are about to upgrade Drupal, but due to compatibility problems, we are dropping the [Inline] module, which we previously used for displaying graphics on web pages.

Add a FAQ page on how to delete a webpage.

How to delete a page is not completely intuitive, and we do get questions about this. Should probably be just below “How to add a page” chapter.

FAQ Page Issues

Should something be added to, deleted or changed in the FAQ’s? Post a child-page here.

Organizing SWNI Material on the Server

Here's Draft 4 of how we might organize SWNI materials, Quick links, etc...


Quick Links menu
• Communications
--Email Lists
--Forums
--SWNI Newspaper
--Web
• Community Services
--Libraries
--Loaves & Fishes
--Parks & Community Centers
--Multnomah Historical Society
--Schools
--Watershed Resource Center
•Crime Prevention/Public Safety
--Emergency Preparedness

Attachment/Image Upload Hangs - Browser problem?

Victor wrote:
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While uploading images for the BNA Trees pages today some images as small as 57KB hung during the Attach step; i.e. in the File Attachments section, I chose the image, then when I clicked Attach button the progress bar would appear (with dialog lines in the progress bar moving) and stay there and stay there and stay there and ... I waited as long as 10 minutes... but the Attach/Upload would not finish...

Giving Neighborhood/Books there own looks

What are the ways that we can give Neighborhood sites (on the SWNI Server) and other Books there own distinctive looks... i.e. not have them all use the same Drupal template?

Michael K says the Group module might be one method.
Mike C says while it would be good for book pages to have their own looks, the basic overall structure of the pages, Menus on the left, etc should remain consistent so that visitors still know they are on the SWNI Server.

Search Window - always returns Your search yielded no results

Search window on the SWNI home page, no matter what you enter there it always returns with:

Your search yielded no results

Need to test this in the Drupal 5.2 sandbox and see if its fixed in that release.

If not then we should remove it until we can get it working again.

Quick Links - is there a way to remove white space...

In the Quick Links and Site Aid menus there is a lot of needless white space to the left of each bulleted item. Is there a way to get rid of it?

Currently that list in the menu is generated using ul and li bulleted list html tags... Is the white space caused by those tags? Is this just a template problem? Can we create a list using different html tags?

Victor plans to expirement in the sandbox to find out.

SWNI Server Registration Problems

I think the reason so many people are encountering the

• The name "nameyougave" has been denied access.

message when they try to register, is that the instruction they get on the registration page (http://swni.org/user/register) says:

Username*

Your full name or your preferred username; only letters, numbers and spaces are allowed.

Book Page Weight setting is missing

Problem: Users with book privileges cannot see the page Weight setting.

Discussion: Currently, in order to show that setting, “Administer Node” privileges are required. The problem with granting those privileges is that it would allow editing of any page created by any user. That is too permissive a feature to add to the Book privileges user role.

Possible workarounds:

TBD - How does one delete a Book Page?

This page to be deleted... how does one delete a page when there is no Delete button for it on its edit tab?

Michael sent the following reply in email:

First off, you have discovered something i was unaware of (i.e. the problem deleting one's own book pages). In fact, it seems to me this was not originally the case. Right off hand, the cause of this is not obvious to me, so it will take some more digging on my part.

Would you like more web-master meetings, to learn more about SWNI/DRUPAL and to exchange ideas with other websters?

Yes - once a quarter
60% (3 votes)
Yes - once a month
40% (2 votes)
No Thanks.
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 5

Creating Web Pages

Calendar events

OSCON 2006

Jul 24 2006 - 10:00am
Jul 28 2006 - 5:00pm

OSCON Promo blurb: “The O'Reilly Open Source Convention, happening July 24-28, 2006 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, is where early adopters, coders, expert users, sys admins, entrepreneurs, and business people working in free and open source software gather to share ideas, discover code, and find solutions.

Free for “Exhibits only”

What is RSS?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication), XML and Atom feeds – known generically as web feeds – are useful for keeping abreast of web sites which update often. When you subscribe to a web feed, you see an abbreviated list of articles, much like a table of contents for a magazine. Web feeds contain a title, a “teaser” showing a little of its content, and a link to view the whole article. This is a convenient and time-saving way of scanning new content on a web site. You can quickly find those pages of interest without wasting time loading the “stinkers.”

A Primer on Creating Web Pages

To create web pages on this site (or merely add comments to an existing page), you need to register for an account. Once registered and logged into the system, you should see your account name on every web page, in a block along the left-hand edge. One of the items inside that block will be

Adding images

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