What is a CMS and why you need one

Posted May 25, 09:57 PM by Peter Jacobson 0 Comments

It’s 2009. There is no reason at this point that any Web site should not be built using a system that will allow a site owner to update their own Web pages.

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Easy Sneezy Flickr on Drupal

Posted Apr 17, 03:26 AM by Peter Jacobson 0 Comments

Took maybe 5 minutes?

Compared to the twitter and del.icio.us modules, the Flickr module just… worked. Sweet. It’s been an interesting first night back with this old acquaintance, I’ll be returning for more.

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Drupal Twitter module tweets on cue

Posted Apr 17, 03:22 AM by Peter Jacobson 0 Comments

Nicely done – toggle a checkbox to tweet your current post.

Next up: install Views module and see if the feed appears in the sidebar like we wants it to!

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DrupalNight RSS Update

Posted Apr 17, 03:21 AM by Peter Jacobson 0 Comments

My Twitter & Delicious feeds now display!

But getting them to do so required Feed Aggregator to just pull the feed. My expectations were off in that a) I expected the module would provide a “Block” as some do; and b) as happens EVER SO RARELY, I assumed things needed to be WAY more complicated than they actually are. A feed is a feed and to pull that in, with Drupal, is thankfully trivial. Props to the devs for that.

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Drupal requires a module for SEO-friendly urls???

Posted Apr 17, 03:14 AM by Peter Jacobson 0 Comments

It does and the module is called Pathauto.

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