Nick puts the finishing touches on his Drupal tutorial series.
Tag: drupal
From HTML mockup to a full Drupal site: a tutorial – Part II: Site Setup, Content and Modules. – Nick Sergeant
Nick’s Drupal tutorial is really useful – especially the bits about prettying up the permalinks and using the Views module.
Sprucing up your User Profile Pages – Thingymajig
A few useful hunks of code to play with when developing Drupal user profile templates.
Drupal and the future of news – Google Video
Long video of a panel talk at a conference featuring Steve Yelvington and others.
The Drupal Cookbook (for beginners) | drupal.org
Now on Drupal – HamptonRoads.com and PilotOnline.com | groups.drupal.org
Wow. I must have missed this a couple weeks ago, but these two news sites – impossible to categorize them as newspaper-dot-coms – re-launched on Drupal.
Now on Drupal – HamptonRoads.com and PilotOnline.com | groups.drupal.org
Notes on building core news site functionality in Drupal
If you’re even thinking about using Drupal to power any sort of news or community site, check out this explanation from Jeff Anderson, the product development manager for PilotOnline.com and HamptonRoads.com in Virginia.
(Sidenote: If you’ve never visited those sites, or HamptonRoads.tv, or looked at what the Pilot does in print, you’re seriously missing out on some innovative work – with style.)
Anderson goes over the development process, challenges, and solutions to migrating two 24/7 local news sites with full databases of stories, comments, and users from home-brewed code to fully built-out Drupal-powered beasts.
A sample, on the topic of how to deal with swarms of one-time visitors coming from the Drudges, Farks, and Diggs of the world:
“Since those events bring us a crush of out-of-market, unlogged users, the Boost module lets us serve those users flat pages – which we expire on a frequent interval – and save the database and application servers to provide dynamic content to authenticated users.”
Go read the whole thing.
Obvious bonus link: The Newspapers on Drupal group.
Frontpage Slideshow – Home
Built for Joomla, but there’s a “static PHP” version for WordPress or Drupal. js/CSS instead of Flash. Costs a few bucks.
We Will Geocode Anything | Development Seed
Worth following – tools and code to largely automate geocoding of news stories.
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